Tattoo artist got teen pregnant, assaulted brother and sister, they say
Girl got an abortion, she told police in account presented on third day of Walter Meyerle's child sex-abuse trial. Boy and girl were befriended and attacked after their grandmotjer dies, they said.
Tattoo artist got teen pregnant, assaulted brother and sister, they say
Tattoo artist Walter Meyerle got a 15-year-old Yardley girl pregnant and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother during sleepovers at his Bristol Borough home, according to accounts presented Wednesday in Bucks County Court.
Meyerle, 35, of Falls Township, had sex with the Yardley girl over a five-month period in 2002 and raped her after she ended the relationship, according to her account.
After the alleged rape, he told her “she’d have a surprise in nine months,” according to the account read by Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Schorn on the third day of Meyerle’s child sex-assault trial.
Meyerle is charged with about 200 sex crimes against 15 children ages 4 to 17. If convicted of the alleged assaults over 13 years, starting in 1998, he could face more than 150 years in prison.
In the case of the Yardley girl, she cried during the alleged rape, and Meyerle said her “tears were sexy” and “turned him on,” according to her account.
About eight weeks later, the girl suffered from morning sickness, missed school and told her mother, who gave her a pregnancy test. She had an abortion at the Women’s Center in Philadelphia, according to the account.
The girl could not say whether she became pregnant as a result of the alleged rape or from intercourse she had with Meyerle during their relationship, Schorn said. They had sex 15 to 20 times during the five months.
Then Meyerele “turned weird,” demanding the girl and her girlfriend have phone sex with him more than 10 times and threatening to kill them if they didn’t do it, she told police in the account. He also ordered her to have phone sex with her father, she said.
She and the girlfriend pretended to have phone sex with Meyerle, and she was able to avoid involving he father, according to her account. When Meyerle threatened the girls, they would block their door with furniture to keep him out, she said.
Meyerle eventually stopped calling her, but they met at a party in Croydon, where he allegedly raped her.
In 2000, Meyerle started assaulting a 13-year-old Bristol Borough girl and her 8-year-old brother after their grandmother died, according to their accounts. The grandmother had been raising the girl and her three young brothers, and the children began hanging out at Meyerle’s house on Jefferson Avenue.
According to the accounts of the girl and the brother:
Meyerle would drive the boy around in his monster truck, and he had video games in his house — it was “everything a young boy could want.”
The children would sleep over, and Meyerle awakened the boy at least four times by sexually assaulting him. The boy pretended to sleep, and he didn’t tell anyone about the attacks for eight years.
After a few weeks, Meyerle invited only the girl to spend weekends. For 18 months, she spent most weekends at Meyerle’s house and was assaulted almost every time.
He would awaken her by whispering, “Your’re pretty” in her ear. The assaults started with fondling and sexual touching, with him telling her, “All girls do this.”
After a few weeks, the attacks turned to oral sex, and then to intercourse.
Meyerle threatened to hurt her brothers if she refused his advances, and said no one would believe her if she tried to report him.
She didn’t want to go to his house, but her parents told her “it was good to get out” and “she would have a good time.”
Her older brother told police that Meyerle talked to him about brothers and sisters having sex and tried to talk him into having sex with his sister, according to his account.
The brother refused, but Meyerle eventually convinced him that it was “OK.”
Meyerle is charged with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with minors, aggravated indecent assault, sexual assault, and statutory sexual assault, all felonies. He also faces dozens of misdemeanor charges.
He waived his right to a jury trial, and his two court-appointed lawyers have stipulated that the prosecution’s accounts accurately represent the witnesses’ testimony, though not the factual accuracy of events. The defense retains the right to challenge the accounts during the trial and on appeal.
The alleged victims’ names were presented in court but are being withheld by The Inquirer.
Because a jury trial was waived, Judge Diane E. Gibbons reversed an earlier ruling and will consider charges that Meyerle allegedly plotted to break out of the county prison, where he has been held since March 17.
The prosecution is expected to wrap up its case Thursday.
the parents are whacko, clearly— Zero- Meyerle's tears will be sexy in prison.— SilliBilli
- wow, where the hell were the parents?
based on their testimony, this sick freak will get "touched" and "fondled" repeatedly in jail— astroqueen0 - That baby that was aborted had nothing to do with this slims actions. He deserved life and was instead murdered by his mother. Who is to say the child would have grown up to be a brilliant scientist able to discover a cure for one of humanities diseases. The laize faire abortion atitude of this country and its mothers has got to stop. We are murdering our future.— rduexpress
- You know what. You're just as disgusting as the creep who did this to this girl. You should be sitting in his cell with him. Why should this girl have to raise her rapists child? You're more on the creep's side than the girl. You should be ashamed of yourself. — Wendell Gee
- save it you have no numbers to support your "maybe a scientist" statement should have could have would have please the numbers are against the child beginning at the mother being 15 add product of rape and father of child incarcerated to the equation...good luck — ALB328
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I hope he gets raped repeatedly and viciously in jail
and then hangs himself by day 7.— Redwoodser 
If convicted, this individual faces a long hard road ahead. It is sickening to think that this all went on and no one discovered the abuse for years. These predators should be put in the prison's general population. That is appropriate under the circumstances.— SocialReject- Redwoodster- i agree, but the poster above you will probably think that this guy deserves another chance to prove himself fit for society and let him out to continue his sick rampage on kids!!! I bet a million bucks he wouldnt think that way if it happened to his kid.— huntnmike3666
- I agree Mike. rduexpress thinks he or she can see into the future. With the bad blood of the monster who did this the baby could grow up and be a predator too. Too many people do this, you wonder if it's a brain or gene malfunction. Sure the girl could of carried the child and went the adoption route but after going through that type of abuse the pregnancy could have killed her. I'm glad she aborted the child. HOW DARE ANYONE say that a rape victim should have the child.— Wendell Gee
- Before justifying abortion, first ask why a child must die for reason of someone else's crime.
There is a line in a famous spanish play that says (my translation)
"Oh, miserable me, o hapless!
I ask Heaven for the reason why,
I committed a crime against all by being born."
— DonQ - something that is legal does not need to be justified ...carry on— ALB328
