{"id":3669,"date":"2025-10-16T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3669\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:37:17","slug":"philadelphia-man-sentenced-to-bccf-for-stalking-groping-girl-on-bensalem-bound-septa-bus-bucks-county-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3669\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Man Sentenced to BCCF for Stalking, Groping Girl on Bensalem-bound SEPTA Bus \u2022 Bucks County, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-family: \" public=\"\" sans=\"\" color:=\"\" rgb=\"\" line-height:=\"\" id=\"isPasted\" fr-original-style=\"\">A Philadelphia man was sentenced on Monday, March 3, 2025, to the Bucks County Correctional Facility for stalking and groping a 17-year-old girl on a SEPTA bus headed to Bensalem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-family: \" public=\"\" sans=\"\" color:=\"\" rgb=\"\" line-height:=\"\" fr-original-style=\"\">Elmange Watson, 27, was found guilty in August of stalking, corruption of minors and indecent assault, and two counts of harassment following a waiver trial before Common Pleas Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-family: \" public=\"\" sans=\"\" color:=\"\" rgb=\"\" line-height:=\"\" fr-original-style=\"\">On Monday, Bateman sentenced Watson to 11 \u00bd to 23 months in county jail and five years of probation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-family: \" public=\"\" sans=\"\" color:=\"\" rgb=\"\" line-height:=\"\" fr-original-style=\"\">On Jan. 22, 2023, the Bensalem Township Police Department was dispatched to the Neshaminy Mall to investigate a report of a 17-year-old girl who was stalked and groped on a bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia man was sentenced on Monday, March 3, 2025, to the Bucks County Correctional Facility for stalking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-3669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bensalem-headlines","10":"tag-bensalem-news","11":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}