WILKES-BARRE — A man who formerly lived in Pittston Township was sentenced in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas on Monday for sexually abusing a boy in the early 2000s and having child sexual abuse materials on a laptop.
Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. sentenced Dean Robinson, 79, to 30 months to five years in state prison, followed by seven years of probation on charges of indecent assault, indecent exposure, and possessing child sexual abuse materials. Robinson, who formerly lived on Suscon Road but relocated to Clyde, Ohio, pled guilty to the charges on Feb. 9.
A sexual offender registration assessment hearing to determine Robinson’s sexual offender status will be held on June 1.
Pittston Township police arrested Robinson twice in 2025.
Court records say a man in his 30s reported in January 2025 that Robinson sexually assaulted him when he was 10 and 11 years old, soon after the boy’s father died. After the man suffered a medical issue, the trauma of being sexually assaulted years earlier came back to him, prompting the report to be filed with Pittston Township police.
The man’s mother spoke during Monday’s sentencing hearing, telling Robinson, “Only a sick and demented person would take advantage of a 10-year-old boy.”
Robinson was arrested a second time in July 2025, when police recovered a discarded laptop in a dumpster behind a business on Suscon Road.
A forensic extraction of the laptop’s hard drive, court records say, identified Robinson as its owner and contained multiple images of child sexual abuse materials, hundreds of pictures of adult pornography, and pictures of Robinson’s family.
Police in court records suspect Robinson discarded the laptop after his arrest in March 2025 on the sexual assault offenses.
Robinson was taken into custody by sheriff deputies and taken to the county correctional facility.
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