{"id":317281,"date":"2026-10-30T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317281\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:24:09","slug":"slatington-man-photographed-child-while-working-on-home-da-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317281\/","title":{"rendered":"Slatington man photographed child while working on home, DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Slatington man previously convicted of indecent assault of a child<\/a> is accused of taking a photo of a 10-year-old child\u2019s buttocks while working as a repairman at a home in Lower Macungie Township, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Douglas Royer, 62, is charged with a misdemeanor of invasion of privacy for allegedly taking the photo in the home Sept. 24.<\/p>\n

Royer was at the home working on its heating system when the victim, a 10-year-old girl, got his phone for him while he was working underneath the home, according to Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan.<\/p>\n

She went under the home to give him the phone, and while she was crawling out, Royer took the photo with his phone, the DA said in a news release. She was not aware he took the photo, but Royer showed it to her and asked if he should delete it, the release states.<\/p>\n

Investigators got a search warrant to access the phone, where they found the photo, the DA said.<\/p>\n

Royer remains free after posting $150,000 bail. Due to his previous conviction, he faces a mandatory sentence of 25 years in state prison if convicted of the invasion of privacy charge, Holihan said.<\/p>\n

He was found guilty in 2004 of indecent assault, indecent assault of someone younger than 13 and corruption of minors for having sexual contact with a girl in Whitehall Township. He was sentenced to five to 10 years in state prison, and had to register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Slatington man previously convicted of indecent assault of a child is accused of taking a photo of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,2754,139,28,28534,432],"class_list":["post-317281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-lower-macungie-township","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-slatington","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317281","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=317281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}