{"id":189430,"date":"2026-05-11T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189430\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:10:31","slug":"scranton-man-to-spend-rest-of-his-life-behind-bars-for-sexually-abusing-children-da-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189430\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man to spend &#8216;rest of his life behind bars&#8217; for sexually abusing children, DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This defendant repeatedly preyed upon vulnerable children and a mentally disabled victim, causing unimaginable trauma and lifelong harm,&#8221; says DA Brian Gallagher<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County\u00a0<\/a>judge on Monday sent a man to prison for decades for sexually abusing five children.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Glan, of Scranton, was sentenced to 43\u00bd to 97-years in prison by Judge Michael J. Barrasse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know the trauma I have given these kids,&#8221; said Glan in a statement read in court by his lawyer. &#8220;I am not a monster, I just need help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glan, 22, pleaded guilty in five cases over the last few months to charges he sexually abused five children over a span of several years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Glan&#8217;s attorney declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis defendant repeatedly preyed upon vulnerable children and a mentally disabled victim, causing unimaginable trauma and lifelong harm,&#8221; District Attorney Brian Gallagher said in a statement. &#8220;Today\u2019s sentence ensures the predator will spend the rest of his life behind bars and never again exploit positions to victimize the innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glan, who was designated a sexually violent predator by the Sex Offender Assessment Board, must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;This defendant repeatedly preyed upon vulnerable children and a mentally disabled victim, causing unimaginable trauma and lifelong harm,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-189430","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\/189430","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=189430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}