Gerard Boguslaw Zalewski, 42, a convicted child rapist who was arrested in Abington Township on August 15, 2004, was sentenced two to seven years in prison on a felony charge following his failure to appear at a March 2006 sentencing hearing for having sexual contact with a 13-year-old Southampton girl, The Pottstown Mercury reported.

According to the Bucks County victim, Zalewski met her online, picked her up at her home and engaged in sexual activity with her in his car in June 2004.

Zalewski is currently serving a 5-to-20-year prison term for the 2006 sex crime conviction. He was extradited from the United Kingdom in August 2024 after serving a sentence in a British prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl there. According to Montgomery County’s District Attorney’s office, he skipped bail prior to his sentencing hearing on child rape charges and resided for 10 years in Lancashire, England.

He was later convicted and sentenced to prison on charges of penetrative sexual activity with a child (two counts), meeting a child following sexual grooming, making indecent photographs of a child, and false imprisonment.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office placed him on watch lists, including the FBI’s “America’s Most Wanted” list, and sent his information to Interpol prior to his arrest. He was captured after he arranged a meeting at the Abington Library parking lot with an undercover Abington detective posing as a 12-year-old girl.

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