A 26-year-old man who pleaded guilty to raping a child was sentenced in Bucks County Court Sept. 14, to 11 to 22 years in state prison.
Alex Michael Soderback, of Richland Township, pleaded guilty on May 24 to rape of a child and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a victim less than 13 years old.
He appeared before Common Pleas Judge Charissa J. Liller Sept. 14 and was sentenced to serve up to 22 years in state prison. Additionally, Liller sentenced him to undergo mental health evaluation, sex offender treatment and have no contact with the victim and the victim’s family, or any unsupervised contact with anyone under 18.
Soderback will have to register as a sex offender and be under Megan’s Law supervision for the rest of his life.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said the investigation began in August 2022 when the Richland Township Police Department took a report from the victim, who was 9 years old at the time, and the victim’s mother. The victim said Soderback raped him several times when he was around the ages of 5 and 7 at Soderback’s home in Richland Township. Soderback would have been 20 to 21 years of age.
Soderback at first told the detective in an interview that the child was the aggressor in making the sexual advances towards him. At sentencing, Soderback admitted that he was the sexual aggressor and sexually assaulted the child for his own sexual gratification.
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