By C1 Staff
ARONA, Pa. — A former corrections officer has been cleared of a felony sexual assault charge for having sex with a 14-year-old girl he thought was 19.
The girl acknowledged telling Brian Dulkis, 32, that she was 19, but prosecutors charged him with the felony because they say he should have known better than to believe her, according to The Post-Gazette.
A jury deliberated just 40 minutes before acquitting Dulkis of the felony and convicting him only of a corruption of minors. He’ll be sentenced in three months.
Dulkis was a corrections officer at the state prison in Somerset when a county park policeman found him having sex in his pickup truck on Feb. 18, 2011.