Teen told to have sex with mom's friend, take locker room photos
Texts and phone calls between tattoo artist Walter Meyele and 17-year-old Croydon girl read on fourth day of child sex-abuse trial.
Teen told to have sex with mom's friend, take locker room photos
Tattoo artist Walter Meyerle tried to force a 17-year-old Croydon girl to have sex with her mother’s boyfriend and to take photos of classmates in a school locker room, according to evidence presented Thursday on the fourth day of his child-sex-abuse trial.
Meyerle, 35, of Falls Township, tried blackmailing the teenager, threatening to send her mother nude photos the girl had taken, according to the exchanges presented in Bucks County Court.
One of the photos admitted into evidence was of the teenager, topless, with her breasts being touched by her 9–year-old sister.
“Payback is a bitch,” Meyerle told the teenager, angry that she would not tease and have sex with her mother’s boyfriend, according to the exchanges.
“Now you will have no friends when they see what you did with kids,” he told her, accorsing to the exchanges read by Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Schorn.
Meyerle is charged with about 200 sex-abuse crimes against 15 children ages 4 to 17, allegedly committed from 1998 to 2011. If found guilty on all counts, he could face about 150 years in prison.
The Croydon teenager was introduced to Meyerle in 2010 by a girlfriend who also was a victim, according to her account.
In a series of exchanges from February and March 2011, the teenager and Meyerle sounded like a couple, with texts such as “LOL,” “Love you,” and “Did I make you happy?” Most of the exchanges involved phone sex, with Meyerle telling the teen what he wanted.
He convinced the teen to send him nude photos, promising to delete them. But when he got angry with her, because she failed to meet his demands, he threatened to send them to her mother, according to the exchanges.
One of the demands that the 9th grader resisted was to take photos of girls in the locker room at Benjamin Franklin Freshman Academy in Bristol Township, according to the prosecution’s presentation.
When she balked, he said he was “done” with her and threatened to send her nude photos to her friends and mother.
“That’s the last time you tell me ‘no,’” he said in one exchange.
The teen said she would take the photos another day, but she never did, authorities said.
He's going to do well in prison.— Raz- This is one sick sociopathic pervert. His manipulation of these children's egos is gut wrenching. I hope he gets life in prison with no possibility for parole. Or better yet, the death penalty!— RKG
He's going to get Bubba's night stick every night.- Yeah. Within five years he'll be able to use his anus to open mayonnaise jars. True justice. — Howard Beale UBS
- 17 years old and in the 9th grade?— DrewD
- So what's that got to do with anything? — drenner
- Because there maybe more to this story, like him also taking advantage of a mentally delayed individual? I too thought 17 and in the 9th grade. I hope she gets help for her part in having her sister invovled. — Retired Navy
- Little fake tough guy, manipulating kids. Welcome to hell, I recomend you cut your hair before going to prison.— jak55555
- The more I read about this guy, the more I believe in the death penalty for certain sex abusers. The depravity of this individual is unbelievable.— Wednesday
- @jak55555 - lol— The Baron
- Hope he get 150 years. What a creep must have been a punk in life.— oldbiker
- gross. his life in prison will be
he|| then he will go to the real he||.— mwright252 - Yesterday it was 100 years in prison, today it is 150 years in prison potentially. When he dies, bury him in the prison yard and do not release his casket until he has served the full 150 years.— Aces high
- What goes around comes around fella.— drenner
- Did they mention just what prison he will be going to ??? I know some brothers that are locked up and would love to give them the "heads up:,,, (Pun intended). This guy has a lot of reaping to do !!!!— phillyroni
- Death by Unga Bunga.— Elbarad
- @jak55555, why would you recomend that? :)— Nitroglycerin
- Is it me, or this article so confusingly written it's difficult to tell who's who in the synopsis?— staup640
- If your 17 year old high school freshman child is picking up 35 year old scumbags at tattoo joints, it's safe to say you've failed as a parent.— dragoon6
- Where are the parents!? Perverts have always been there, heck they used to employee one here at the paper, but he quit.— xlGmanlx
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I hope he gets violently owned in prison for a week
and then hangs himself.— Redwoodser - Typical WT from Croydon/Bristol/Levittown area. Bucks County's North Philly.— gordon7
- The general Population will love his Mullet, giddy up fella, hope you enjoy the ride. Nice of her victim friend to introduce them. His only hope is being able to trade some of his former work for favors, because all inmates love their Tats.
- Wow, a younger version of Jerry Sandusky...— escaped to CA.
- If the commentators here are anti-rape, why are you getting excited about men getting raped in prison? That's just as sick as what he did. You weirdos have some messed up fantasies.— comin4ya23
- He will not survive a year in general. This creep is already being spoken of as toast. Hey, such is life.
— denjamr 
oh he's done. they'll take good care of him up state. hope he likes salad because he'll be tossing a lot of them when he gets there.- Take him out to an open field and put a few bullets in his head. The loser is breathing the same air as us. That's unacceptable.— NeastfillerD
- oh i get it, people get raped in prison, this guy might get raped, prison rape is funny...these comments are really great.— Real names are preferred, though optional
- OK, wait....200 crimes over a 13 year period...and the most he can get is 150 years? I know, obviously, that's longer than he'll live...but that averages to 9 months per charge. Seems a bit light, doesn't it?— Phantoms9805
- All the people on here that want this guy to get it in jail. Might be upset to find out they have separate housing for people like him and Sandusky. Sadly he won't be in general population if they feel he will get hurt there.
- Why jail for this sicko? Death penalty seems much more appropriate. His crimes are so bad he should be judged by God (or whatever deity/force you believe in). Humans are incapable of judging things like this, leave it in God's hands. We just have to send him there.— ena1977
- Only in America do you find such stories in abundance like this one relating to child abuse.— Andrew Grier
- Wait, no racist comments? Oh, that is a white guy.— Mtairysquirl
- He's a tattoo artist, thats what they do.— neddyflanders
