Bucks Co. Teacher Tried To Meet Minor For Sex: Police

DOYLESTOWN, PA — A Bucks County high school teacher attempted to meet someone he believed to be a juvenile for a sexual encounter at a Buckingham Township park in 2022, police said.

Authorities have charged Steven Allan Struzinski, 42, of Plumstead Township, with criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and criminal attempt to commit unlawful contact with a minor.

Struzinski, a high school teacher in the Council Rock School District, was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Stacy Wertman and was committed to the Bucks County Correctional Facility under $250,000 bail, 10 percent.

Law enforcement launched an investigation on March 1, 2023, after an individual filed a report with the Buckingham Township Police Department regarding a man who had engaged in unlawful contact with a minor, authorities said.

The witness told investigators that from May 20 to May 23, 2022 he had been posing as a 13-year-old boy and had engaged in a texting relationship with an adult man, later identified as Struzinski.

The witness said he first met Struzinski on a social media dating application where he indicated to Struzinski that he was 13 years old. Despite that, Struzinski initiated explicit sexual conversations and solicited sex, according to a criminal complaint, and arranged to meet the boy at George Bush Park in Buckingham on May 23, 2022.

Struzinski arrived at the park at 3 p.m., the witness told police, and a photo was taken of the vehicle and its license plate before it fled the park. Police later confirmed that the license plate is registered to Struzinski.

The case was investigated by the Buckingham Township Police Department and is assigned for prosecution to Chief Deputy District Attorney Matthew S. Lannetti.