A guy from Pittston Township was given a maximum term of seventeen years in state prison after being caught over three years ago on charges of sexually assaulting a minor.
For involuntary deviant sexual encounters, 27-year-old Travis Lee Abbott received a jail sentence of six to seventeen years from Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. of Luzerne County. Abbott entered a guilty plea on April 5.
Abbott was also ordered to register his address for life under the state’s Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act and given a sentence of three years of consecutive probation.
In May of 2021, when a forensic interviewer was questioning a youngster at the Luzerne County Children’s Advocacy Center, Abbott was apprehended by police in Pittston Township.
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Court papers indicate that the minor testified during the interview that Abbott had sexually attacked him in a “secret room” within his residence and gave specific information about the attack.
Max C. Lubin, Abbott’s attorney, argued for a reduced term before Sklarosky handed down the punishment. Lubin said that Abbott had suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his biological father and foster care.