​Bucks County Man Pleads No Contest To Raping 15-Year-Old Girl

DOYLETOWN, PA — A Sellersville man entered a no contest plea on Monday, May 20 to the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Quakertown last year.

Appearing before Common Pleas Judge Stephen Corr in Doylestown, 32-year-old Miguel Angel Sanchez entered the pleas to numerous counts of rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, trafficking in individuals, and related crimes.

In entering the plea, Sanchez acknowledged to the judge the evidence against him was sufficient to convict him at trial. Sentencing was deferred to August while Sanchez undergoes a sex offender registration assessment.

The investigation began on October 24 after Quakertown police took a report of a rape that happened the night before in the parking lot of a grocery store on W. Broad Street.

The victim, a 15-year-old girl, told police a man, later identified as Sanchez, raped her inside his vehicle, which she described as a white, four-door-vehicle.

The victim told police she met Sanchez on one prior occasion, and they exchanged contact
information through Snapchat.

During Snapchat conversations, prosecutors said Sanchez would ask the victim for videos of her nude and/or performing sex acts in exchange for money. Sanchez also communicated with one of the victim’s friends, a 16-year-old girl, through Snapchat, and he also asked her for sex videos in exchange for money, prosecutors said.

Quakertown police were able to review surveillance videos from the area and observed a white sedan in the Giant parking lot at the time of the rape. The vehicle was linked to Sanchez, and his driver’s license photo matched a photo found on the victim’s phone.

Sanchez was arrested on Nov. 3.

This case was investigated by Quakertown Borough Police Department, led y Detective Ryan Naugle, and is assigned for prosecution to Deputy District Attorney Brittney M. Kern.