PITTSTON TWP. — Police in Pittston Township charged Dean Robinson, 78, of Suscon Road, with sexually abusing a boy in the early 2000s, according to court records.

Robinson was arraigned by District Judge Alexandra Kokura Kravitz of Pittston on charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault and indecent exposure. He was released on $50,000 unsecured bail.

According to the criminal complaint:

A man now in his early 30s reported to police in January that Robinson sexually assaulted him when he was 10-and-11-years-old soon after the boy’s father died.

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The man claimed the trauma of being sexually assaulted recently came back to him when he suffered a medical issue and experienced anxiety telling police, “all this was flooding back in (my) system,” the complaint says.

Police in the complaint allege Robinson committed the sexual assaults inside his residence and while with the boy in the woods on an all-terrain vehicle.