Mark Pazuhanich of Pennsylvania was a District Attorney who had just been elected judge when he was charged with fondling a 10-year-old girl (his daughter) in the crowd of a concert. A woman witnessed it and told security, who detained Pazuhanich. He was charged with public drunkenness but later charged with indecent assault. His daughter described the molestation in court.
He was sentenced to ten years probation, but it was terminated early so he would not have to register as a sex offender for life under Megan’s Law.
- The Morning Call: Girl, 10, tells of fondling by judge
- Fox News: Judge pleads no contest to molesting girl at Hillary Duff concert
- Pocono Record: From promising attorney to chief prosecutor, from judge to convicted child molester
- Law Crossing: Ex-judge charged with fondling his minor daughter gets probation terminated early
Mark Pazuhanich was an assistant DA/prosecutor in Monroe County PA when I, freshly 17, met him. He was supposed to be prosecuting for a slew of violent crimes i had survived. Instead, he victimized me again, and yet again. I am 49 y.o now, and over the past year it has weighed on me more & more. There would be a trail of it, and I, having left Stroudburg ASAP after those events with the aide of my father &extended family who wanted me safely away from Pazuhanich’s reach and the trauma that led myself and my family ever meeting such a corrupted & degenerate system and Prosecutor. To be clear, I was the victim of a stranger kidnapping, SA and hostage. The survivor of it. But as Mark let me know , all 17 yrs of me, I was “nothing but his witness “, before …he did what he did to that broken and shocked young girl; to me. Ive carried this a long time , and now it keeps me up at night, flashes before me echoes down long years I accepted myself as the nothing Mark Pazuhanich told me I was. If anyone reading this has any legal direction, I want some accountability. Maybe Mark P “got away with” molesting his own daughter, hopefully she doesnt talk to him at all- I know it was known about.him before the incident when he was caught, and I know I can retrieve records. My father was an absolute hero, and Mark Pazuhanich owes my father’s daughter some accountability.
wonder where he is today.
I pray his daughter is well and never forgives him. She deserves to know, if she wants to ,that he did that and more, to others, the most vulnerable others, long before she even existed. I deserve an apology.
I am very sorry for all you have suffered. I hope you fine some peace that he has been exposed even though he got off very lightly.