{"id":288403,"date":"2026-09-17T20:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288403\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:20:14","slug":"west-pittston-man-pleads-guilty-in-child-sex-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288403\/","title":{"rendered":"West Pittston man pleads guilty in child sex case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Pittston man accused of trying to set up a sexual encounter with a minor has pleaded guilty to attempted child sex charges.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher A. Grabosky, 50, pleaded guilty this week to charges of attempted unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a communication facility.<\/p>\n<p>Luzerne County Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. accepted Grabosky\u2019s plea and set sentencing for Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The charges alleged Grabosky tried to set up a sexual encounter with a teenage girl in Pittston Twp. on May 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Grabosky remains in custody at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility pending sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Pittston man accused of trying to set up a sexual encounter with a minor has pleaded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[46,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,802,4488],"class_list":["post-288403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-cvc","tag-west-pittston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288403","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=288403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}