Carbon man who admitted sexually assaulting teenage girl is sent to prison

A Carbon County man who admitted assaulting a teenage girl who was passed out at a party was given a prison term on Friday in the county court.

Calvin D. Cederborg, 32, of Nesquehoning, was sentenced to serve two to 18 months in prison on a charge of indecent assault. He previously entered a plea.

Cedberborg escaped a much longer jail term when the district attorney’s office agreed to drop eight other counts, including five felonies. Charges dropped included four counts of aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault, and corruption of minors.

Lansford police charged Cederborg with sexually assaulting a teenage girl who was passed out after drinking.

Officer Joshua P. Tom wrote in an affidavit of probable cause that he and officer Timothy Wuttke were on patrol on May 28, 2017, when they received a report of sexual assault involving a man and a teenage girl.

Cederborg had been invited to a party at the home and had been flirting with the girl and giving her alcohol, according to an adult witness. The girl was intoxicated when police arrived and needed emergency medical treatment.

A witness told police he saw Cederborg touching the girl inappropriately while she was passed out on a sofa. Other guests at the party told Cederborg to stop, and called police. They also stopped Cederborg from fleeing by tackling him as he ran through the backyard.

Defense Attorney Adam Weaver told Matika his client has a learning disability, and an evaluation by the state sexual offenders assessment board determined he is not a sexually violent predator and is a low risk to offend again.

Matika said he was bothered by the presentence investigation report prepared by the adult probation office in which Cederborg did not admit he assaulted the girl. Matika noted Cederborg had the most serious charges against him dropped, adding he had a hard time reconciling the facts presented by the police and Cederborg’s failure to admit what he did.

Weaver claimed that his client, because of his disability, did not understand the questions asked of him by the interviewer.

Matika also ordered Cederborg to undergo a sexual offender’s evaluation, must follow all mandates of Megan’s Law concerning registration and must register for the next 15 years as a sexual offender, make restitution of $1,157.65, pay court costs of about $1,000, pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole and have no contact with the victim. He was given 10 days credit for time spent in jail on the charges.

He will begin the jail term at 5 p.m. on Jan. 4 and was granted work-release privileges.