A Carbon County judge has sentenced a Kunkletown man to 18 to 36 years for the rape of a young girl in July 2015.

In April, a jury found Stephen E. Hogg Jr., 35, guilty of two counts each of rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor in a sexual manner, aggravated indecent assault, corruption of a minor with the defendant older than 18 and indecent assault on a person less than 13. Ten of the 12 counts are felonies. The rape of a child charges are felony ones.

In finding Hogg guilty, the panel apparently rejected his alibi defense and believed the victim that the assaults did occur.

The commonwealth, represented by Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Ann Dyrda Hatton, alleged that Hogg raped a then 12-year-old girl in her home in the Indian Mountain Lakes development in Penn Forest Township, on two occasions in July 2015.

The allegations came to light in March 2016 when the victim told a girlfriend about the assaults. That conversation was overheard by the girlfriend's mother, who called the victim's father and told him what his daughter had said. The father then called state police at Fern Ridge, who began an investigation.