Falls Child Molester Sentenced to 494 Years

A Falls Township tattoo artist was sentenced to 494 years in prison after being found guilty of 170 sex-related charges.

A Falls Township man was sentenced to 494.5 to 989 years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting more than a dozen children. Judge Diane Gibbons found 36-year-old Walter Meyerle guilty of 170 sex-related charges in back in August 2012, Action News reported.  According to Phillyburbs, Meyerle's victims each asked the judge Thursday to give the serial child predator the sentence he deserved. "I can't give him what he deserves,” Gibbons said. “He deserves to know what it's like to be a child and feel fear. To be a child and feel pain and humiliation." Judge Gibbons gave Meyerle the maximum allowed by law on most of the 170 charges he faced and delivered it in increments, naming each victim and described in detail what Meyerle did to that …

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Witness Tampering Investigation Launched Against Molester

The district attorney is investigating possible tampering in the case of convicted child molester Walter Meyerle.

District Attorney David Heckler confirmed to media outlets Friday that his office has opened an investigation into possible witness tampering that may have occurred during the summer child sexual abuse trial of Falls Township tattoo artist Walter Meyerle. The Bucks County Courier Times first reported in its Friday print edition that a secret grand jury investigation into the possible tamper was underway. The paper reported that Meyerle’s parents were spotted in the Doylestown courthouse for the grand jury. Heckler told Philly.com Friday that his office was investigating whether the convicted 35-year-old and/or those acting on his behalf did “illegal things to influence the proceedings against him.” The District Attorney’s Office is working…

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