A Carbon County jury last week found a Palmerton man not guilty of all but one of six child sexual assault charges involving a 9-year-old girl in 2015.

Jonathan Tyler Murray, 24, had been charged by Summit Hill Police Officer Kodie R. Pituch with rape of a child: statutory sexual assault, 4 to 8 years older than the victim; involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child; sexual assault; aggravated indecent assault, with the victim less than 13 years old; and indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old on Dec. 25, 2015.

The jury found him guilty of the last charge, indecent assault of a child less than 13 years old. He was found not guilty of the remaining charges.

He has yet to be sentenced.

President Judge Roger N. Nanovic presided over the trial. Murray was represented by Attorney Jeffrey G. Velander; Assistant District Attorney Brian B. Gazo prosecuted the case.

According to court documents, police received a call from a woman on Jan. 22, 2022, that her daughter told her Murray had sexually assaulted her when she was 9 years old.

During an interview at the Children’s Advocacy Center, Scranton, the daughter disclosed the assault, saying that Murray had gotten an Xbox for Christmas and invited her into his bedroom to play the game.

She told Advocacy Center staff he assaulted her, and repeated the assaults for several months “until he turned 17 and began dating someone.”