Bucks County Man Sentenced To Prison For Raping A Child

DOYLESTOWN, PA — A 26-year-old Bucks County man was sentenced on Thursday, Sept. 14 to between 11 and 22 years in state prison for raping a child.

Alex Michael Soderback, of Richland Township, will serve up to 22 years in state prison for raping a child and involuntary deviant sexual intercourse with a victim less than 13 years old.

Common Pleas Judge Charissa J. Liller also sentenced him to undergo mental health evaluation, sex offender treatment and to have no contact with the victim and the victim’s family, or any unsupervised contact with anyone under 18.

Soderback will have to register as a sex offender and be under Megan’s Law supervision for the rest of his life.

The investigation began in August 2022 when the Richland Township Police Department took a report from the victim, who was 9 years old at the time, and the victim’s mother.

The victim told police that Soderback raped him several times when he was around the ages of 5 and 7 at Soderback’s home in Richland Township. Soderback would have been 20 to 21 years of age at the time.

Soderback at first told the detective in an interview that the child was the aggressor in making the sexual advances towards him. At sentencing, Soderback admitted that he was the sexual aggressor and exploited the child for his own sexual gratification.

The case was investigated by the Richland Township Police Department, led by Detective Sergeant Ray Aleman, and was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney David E. O’Beirne.