Plea deal accepted in sexual abuse case
A Dunbar couple accused of corrupting a teen girl accepted a tentative plea deal with the Fayette County District Attorney’s office and waived the majority of charges against them to court Tuesday. Kevin Michael McIntosh, 26, and Jennifer Renne Vonfradenburgh, 30, were each charged for their alleged role in getting a teenage girl intoxicated and then performing sexual acts with her at a location in Dunbar last year.
State police said McIntosh was charged before Magisterial District Judge Dwight Shaner with sexual abuse of children, corruption of minors and furnishing alcohol to minors following the alleged incident in March 2007.
His girlfriend, Vonfradenburgh, was charged before Shaner with corruption of minors and furnishing alcohol to minors as a result of the alleged incident, police said.
Krause said that police withdrew the charge of sexual abuse of children against McIntosh but noted that all other charges against the couple were waived to Fayette County Court during a preliminary hearing Tuesday morning before Shaner.
Under the terms of the tentative plea agreement offered by Assistant District Attorney Linda Cordaro, McIntosh would serve a period of probation while Vonfradenburgh would be offered Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD).
According to the criminal complaint filed by Trooper John S. Krause, police became aware of the alleged incident in September when the alleged victim came to the state police barracks to report the incident.
The 17-year-old girl allegedly told police that she was supplied alcohol by both McIntosh and Vonfradenburgh at their home and then, once intoxicated, the couple engaged in various sexual acts with her, Krause said.
The Herald-Standard does not identify the alleged victims of sexual assault.
The girl told police that she never returned to the couple’s home but said that McIntosh was harassing her about having more sexual encounters with the couple, prompting her to report the incident, Krause said.