Norristown State Hospital Corrections Officer Faces Sex Charges

NORRISTOWN, PA — A corrections officer at Norristown State Hospital was arrested earlier this year after attempting to meet an underage boy for sex, authorities confirmed on Tuesday.

Gregory Allen Leh, 34, of Reading, was the subject of an undercover investigation coordinated online by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office’s Child Predator Section.

Back in January, Leh began chatting with an undercover officer who was posing as 14-year-old boy, authorities said.

Even after the officer told Leh he was only 14 years old, Leh continued the sexual conversation, and said he wanted to have oral sex with the child, according to a criminal complaint.

On Jan. 24, officers arranged for Leh to meet up with the "child" at a location in Eagleville. When Leh arrived, wearing his corrections officer uniform, they took him into custody.

He has been charged with unlawful contact with a minor, attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and criminal use of a communication facility.

The case was intially being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office, but has since been remanded to the state. He was moved from federal custody to state custody and was formally arraigned in Montgomery County on Tuesday, June 18.

A preliminary hearing is forthcoming.