Montco man convicted of sexually abusing 'broken little girl' who overcame drug addiction

A Montgomery County man acquitted on illegal gun charges by a jury was convicted quickly last week by jury 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 an underage runaway Marlborough Township girl.

The jury did acquit Jason Matthew Hill, 49, of Vassar Drive in Hatfield and the 1400 block of Quakertown Avenue in Pennsburg, 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, explaining the jury’s verdict.

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

He faces decades in prison, including a 10-year mandatory sentence on the charge of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, per the report. Hill will undergo drug and alcohol evaluations and an evaluation by the Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, which will determine if he meets the criteria to be classified as a sexually violent predator.

“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. “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 as the trial for Jason Matthew Hill got under way on Tuesday, according to The Reporter. “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 alleged 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.