A Lehighton man, whose case took over five years to finally reach a conclusion, was placed on a long probation period on Friday afternoon in Carbon County court on charges of corruption of a minor and indecent assault.

Judge Joseph J. Matika sentenced Jay Alexander Nenscel, 53, to five years of probation on the corruption count and two years probation on the indecent assault charge, with the terms running consecutively.

Nenscel was charged March 3, 2014, by Summit Hill police with having sexual contact with a then 15-year-old male at a residence in the borough.

The police report indicated that Nenscel showed the male pornographic videos in one incident and gave him alcohol in other incident. He then performed a sex act on the male.

The case record shows the continuances began in 2014 with, at one time, a bench warrant issued for the defendant, then various motions were filed by his public defender, attorney Paul J. Levy. The records show some of the motions included one for suppression of evidence, requesting additional information from the commonwealth and at one time a motion by Levy to withdraw as counsel.

Court records also show that a plea agreement was reached in September 2019.

In exchange for the pleas, the commonwealth agreed to drop another corruption count and two indecent assault charges and a charge of furnishing alcohol to a minor.

Levy told the court his client was abusing alcohol at the time of the incidents and realizes the crimes were “reprehensible.”

Nenscel told the court, “I’ve been sober quite a long time now. I’m just going day to day.”

The charges fall under the provisions of Megan’s Law. Nenscel must register as a sexual offender for the next 15 years.

Matika also ordered him to render a total of 300 hours of community service, get a drug and alcohol evaluation and follow any recommendation for treatment, zero tolerance for drug or alcohol use, get a sexual offenders evaluation, supply a DNA sample, follow all registry requirements of Megan’s Law, have no unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18, pay court costs of about $1,000 and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on probation.