Montco man sentenced to state prison for sexually abusing girl, giving her meth

A Montgomery County man with addresses in Pennsburg and Hatfield was sentenced Friday to 18 to 36 years in state prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl who was a runaway and who he plied with methamphetamine.

Jason Matthew Hill, 49, who, according to The Mercury, listed addresses along the 800 block of Vassar Drive in Hatfield Township, and along the 1400 block of Quakertown Avenue in Pennsburg, was sentenced in Montgomery County court on charges of statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a child, indecent assault, corruption of a minor and simple assault in connection with incidents that occurred in 2023 with a Marlborough Township girl.

Hill meets criteria to be registered as a sexually violent predator for the rest of his life, per the report. According to The Mercury, the Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board found that Hill suffered from a mental abnormality, an antisocial personality disorder, and that he was likely to reoffend.

“There is no question that this case provides devastating facts with regard to this young girl,” county Senior Judge Thomas C. Branca said at the sentencing, according to The Mercury, adding that Hill targeted the girl, who had a troubled home life.

“This defendant took advantage of that, there’s no question about that,” Branca said.

The judge also ordered Hill to complete six years of probation following parole, meaning Hill will be under court supervision for 42 years.

“I’m still saying I’m innocent. I don’t want to be in prison for the rest of my life. I do know that it was wrong for me to have her around me, period,” Hill told the newspaper.

The jury did acquit Hil back in July of a few criminal charges, according to The Reporter.

“The jury found that this defendant supplied methamphetamine to a little girl, that he got her hooked on those drugs and that over a period of time he had sex with her on more than one occasion,” co-prosecutor Lauren Marvel told The Reporter in July, explaining the jury’s verdict.

Hill told the press that 25 years in state prison “ain’t nothing to me.”

“The victim in this case is unbelievably strong. As was heard in court, she went through becoming addicted to meth and being sexually abused by this 47-year-old man and being taken to multiple locations, one of which where she was essentially forced to live in a closet,” Assistant District Attorney Margo Weitz told The Reporter back in July. “But she is doing really well now and it took an insane amount of courage for her to come into court and to be able to tell her story, but she did it.”

County detectives and Marlborough Township Police authorities said the juvenile described the grooming and sexual abuse as "trauma bonding" -- he would tell the girl stories related to his youth and growing up, which happened to be the same issues the juvenile had experienced during her life. He also allegedly brought her from one “trap house” to another to be sexually abused, investigators allege.

“That’s when the defendant saw his target. The defendant started giving her meth every day,” Weitz argued to a jury during the July trial. “Consent is not an issue in this case. She was too little to consent.”

The girl, who is now 17, drug-free, and in custody of a relative, revealed the sexual assaults to a therapist, per testimony.

According to the report, Weitz said the “broken little girl” had a mother who died of an overdose when she was 12, and then she became addicted to methamphetamine. At the time of alleged abuse, the girl was 14 and Hill was 48, according to testimony.

Prosecutors said Hill took the girl to at least three residences in Bucks and Montgomery counties, where drug addicted people stayed or hung out, per the report. The victim was forced to hide in a closet at one location where she went to the bathroom in a bag and had little to eat.

According to the article, the girl dropped weight during her alleged time with Hill, going from 130 to about 89 pounds.

Hill sexually assaulted the girl at two locations where Hill and the girl stayed.

“I accepted it. It felt like (Hill) was the only person I had. I just didn’t really care about anything. I think I just tuned it out,” the victim testified as she petted a court comfort dog that sat at her feet in the witness box, according to The Reporter.

Hill’s lawyer, John H. Pavloff, said his client committed no sexual acts at all. He said prosecutors have no sufficient evidence, not even DNA.

Read more on the trial here.

All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.