{"id":177595,"date":"2026-04-27T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:35:07","slug":"man-sentenced-on-indecent-assault-charges-in-lackawana-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177595\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced on indecent assault charges in Lackawana County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Roche was sentenced on Monday to a year and four months to two years and eight months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A man from Carbondale has been sentenced after assaulting two children.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Matthew Roche, 19, sexually assaulted a boy and a girl multiple times last summer in Lackawanna and Monroe counties.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault in December.<\/p>\n<p>Roche was sentenced on Monday to a year and four months to two years and eight months in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Roche was sentenced on Monday to a year and four months to two years and eight months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-177595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}