A Carbon County man was sentenced to a long state prison term on Monday after pleading guilty in a sexual assault case.

Sinuhe Thomas Schultz, 29, of Lehighton, pleaded guilty to one count of corruption of a minor of a sexual nature before Judge Steven R. Serfass.

In exchange for the plea the district attorney’s office dropped an count of indecent assault.

Serfass immediately sentenced Schultz to serve 21 to 42 months in a state correctional institution. Schultz entered his plea via video conference from the state prison at Rockview, Centre County, where he is being held on a state parole violation and is awaiting resentencing.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Detective Matt Arner of the Lehighton police:

On March 19, 2018, a mother of a 12-year-old girl contacted police to report an incident involving her daughter.

The victim said that on March 17, she and two other friends, both 14-year-old girls, walked from a park to her residence on South First Street. While leaving her residence, she said they met up with Schultz. The victim said that Schultz asked the girls to hang out with him, and then started following the girls to one of their residences on South Fourth Street.

The victim told the others that she wasn’t comfortable with Schultz following them, but one of the girls said that it was OK since they knew him from Facebook. When they got to her residence, Schultz entered with the girls, and continued to follow them into the other girl’s bedroom. The victim said that when they got into the bedroom, someone had locked the door, which is when Schultz began to ask the girls to play “Truth or Dare” and offered them alcohol. He began to grope one of the girls.

A family member came in and forced Schultz to leave.

On April 9, Arner interviewed Schultz, who said that he had an alibi since he spends his weekends with his parents. When asked about the allegations, he said that he often walked throughout town with a female, and she would take him to people’s houses, but he would never go inside. He initially denied the allegations.

Serfass also ordered Schultz to supply a DNA sample, get a mental health evaluation, pay court costs of about $1,000 and have no contact with any of the victims.