A retired Lehigh Valley pastor has been arrested and charged with propositioning a teenage girl online, police said.
His alleged screen name was “AllentownHotGuy,” and according to investigators, the 62-year-old retired pastor used that idenitity to try to get a 15-year-old girl to have sex with him
Paul Marmon, of South Whitehall Township, has been charged with unlawful contact with the Montgomery County teenager, whom police said he met in an online chat room while pretending to be more than 40 years younger than his real age.
State Attorney General Tom Corbett said Marmon posed as a 19-year-old boy and told the girl she was much more mature than other girls.
Investigators said that Marmon not only discussed sex with the girl but asked her if she would take nude photos of herself.
Authorities also said Marmon left her presents, including bags of Victoria’s Secret underwear, in a park near her home.
Kristie Frantz said she has lived across the street from the former pastor and his wife for years. She said the couple recently became grandparents.
“Never would I have thought this,” she said. “My daughter’s 10, and she’s out playing all the time. This very much shocks me.”
Police said they arrested Marmon after the girl became suspicious of his age when speaking to him on the phone. She told her parents, and they called the police.
No one at Marmon’s house answered the door on Friday. The Allentown church where he reportedly once preached did not return calls from NBC10.
Marmon was being held on $1 million bail. He faces up to 21 years in prison if convicted.
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