Child Sex Predator Posed As Door-To-Door Solicitor In Bensalem: DA

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA — A 54-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced Tuesday to five to 10 years in state prison for traveling to Bucks County to meet a person he believed was a 13-year-old girl for sex, authorities said.

In an effort not to raise suspicion, Oscar Castillo-Peralta, of Pleasantville, N.J., told the girl that he would dress as a door-to-door religious solicitor, authorities said.

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He planned to knock on neighbors' doors first so that no one would wonder why he was in the neighborhood, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said.

Castillo-Peralta, who was sentenced on Tuesday, was also ordered to undergo sex offender treatment while incarcerated.

He was arrested when he arrived on Feb. 19, 2025, after arriving at a township home expecting to meet the girl, authorities said.

Instead, Bensalem Police were waiting for Castillo-Peralta, who was dressed in a suit and carrying religious materials to avoid raising suspicion.

On Jan. 30, 2025, he began a conversation on a social media app with what he believed to be a 13-year-old girl in which they exchanged phone numbers and text messages for several weeks before the conversation became sexual.

Castillo-Peralta pleaded guilty in April to two counts of unlawful contact with a minor and one count of criminal attempt to disseminate sexually explicit materials to a minor.