Bucks Co. Man Found Guilty In Sexual Assault Of 5 Boys: DA

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — A 58-year-old Penndel Borough man has been found guilty on all charges related to the sexual assault of five boys over a total period of 17 years, authorities confirmed this week.

Common Pleas Judge Diane E. Gibbons ruled Louis Charles Aiello guilty of charges, which included felony counts of rape of a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years old, statutory sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault.

Aiello was also found guilty of felony and misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors, indecent assault and indecent exposure. He was also found guilty of two counts of possession of child pornography.

Aiello was first arrested in June 2020 on charges related to repeated sexual assaults of two boys between 2001 and 2010. The DA’s office said that Aiello was a friend of one child’s father, and met the second boy while working as a DJ at a wedding the boy attended. In both cases, the assaults began when they were 14.

Following a news conference held by the DA’s office after the initial charges, more came forward and reported that Aiello had sexually abused them when they were boys. The DA said that those abuses occurred in Bensalem and Penndel over a period of 12 years, between 1993 and 2005. Some victims were as young as 7 years old. One said he considered Aiello “a father figure.”

Aiello remains in Bucks County Correctional Facility, where he has been held for the past year.

His sentencing was deferred for 90 days, during which time he will undergo evaluation by the Sex Offender Assessment Board.

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