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Woman gets probation for chasing kids with dildo




Carl Hessler Jr. , Mercury Staff Writer 10/20/2003




NORRISTOWN -- A 36-year-old West Pottsgrove woman will serve probation for showing an artificial penis to three children, chasing them and hitting one girl on the head with it.

Linda Schultz, of the 400 block of Glasgow Street, was sentenced to nine months’ probation Wednesday after she pleaded no contest to three summary harassment charges in Montgomery County Court.

Judge Maurino J. Rossanese Jr. ordered Schultz to undergo a psychological evaluation and to abide by any treatment that may be recommended by probation officials. The judge also ordered Schultz to have no contact with the three children.

A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt. It is an acknowledgment that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict. Under state law, a no contest plea is treated the same as a conviction for sentencing purposes.

\"This behavior is reprehensible. It’s inexcusable, and we won’t tolerate it,\" said Assistant District Attorney Aliena Gerhard.

Gerhard said prosecutors are pleased that Schultz will have to undergo counseling and stay away from the children.

\"The commonwealth wanted to spare the children from having to testify against her because they were terrified of her,\" Gerhard said, adding that prosecutors are satisfied with the outcome.

Gerhard praised West Pottsgrove police for bringing charges against Schultz.

\"The investigation was launched in order to protect the children of the community from acts of this type,\" said West Pottsgrove Police Officer Steven Ziegler, who attended Wednesday’s hearing.

Charges of corruption of minors and open lewdness were dismissed in exchange for the plea.

According to state law, the harassment charges to which Schultz pleaded no contest maintained that Schultz engaged in a course of conduct that served no legitimate purpose and that alarmed or seriously annoyed other people.

West Pottsgrove police initiated an investigation of Schultz last October after a parent of one of the children reported that Schultz acted improperly with two children, a 7-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint.

Schultz, according to the arrest affidavit, allegedly placed an artificial penis through an opening in her shorts, pretending to have a penis, while in the company of the two children in a West Pottsgrove residence in June 2002.

\"The defendant went as far as to chase the children around with the dildo, hitting (the girl) on the head with it,\" Ziegler wrote in the affidavit of probable cause.

The two children told an adult about the incident in October, according to court records. Police said that the children were traumatized by the act and that one of the children repeatedly mimicked the conduct and had to receive counseling.

During the investigation, police also discovered a 15-year-old girl who told authorities Schultz threw an artificial penis at her and made a lewd comment to her while she was in Schultz’s company last year, according to the criminal complaint.



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