{"id":190307,"date":"2026-05-12T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:56:11","slug":"child-rape-sentence-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190307\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Rape Sentence \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 12. 2026 12:15PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan has announced Ronald Haberstumpf, 79, of Bethlehem, was sentenced to a state prison sentence on various charges for sexually assaulting a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The offenses happened between 2013 and 2017 at a home in Bethlehem (Lehigh County). The victim was between the ages of 4 and 8 at the time and was known to the defendant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The charges include Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse with a Child, Aggravated Indecent Assault of a Child, Unlawful Contact with a Minor \u2013 Sexual Offenses, Indecent Assault of a Person Less than 13 Years of Age, Corruption of Minors \u2013 Defendant Age 18 or Above and Endangering the Welfare of Children \u2013 Parent\/Guardian\/Other Commits Offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Haberstumpf was sentenced to 21 to 47 years in a hearing before Judge James T. Anthony. Haberstumpf will also be required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and was classified as a Sexually Violent Predator. Under the sentence imposed today, the 79-year-old Haberstumpf will be 99 years old when he becomes eligible for parole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">This case was investigated by Bethlehem Police Department Detective Pete Labiak and was prosecuted by Chief Deputy District Attorney Sara A. Moyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 12. 2026 12:15PM District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan has announced Ronald Haberstumpf, 79, of Bethlehem, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-190307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190307","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=190307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}