Sentencing For Ex-Warminster Cop On Sex Charges Feb. 27

WARMINSTER, PA —A sentencing date has been scheduled for the ex-Warminster Township police officer facing up to 185 years in prison for sexually abusing five boys.

Sentencing has been scheduled for James Carey for Feb. 27, said Manuel Gamiz Jr., communications director for the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

Gamiz said, though, that the sentencing date could change.

On Friday, Bucks County Judge Wallace Bateman Jr. rejected a motion by Carey's attorney in late October to withdraw a no-contest plea to sexually abusing five boys while serving as an officer in the D.A.R.E program, Gamiz said.

Carey —a police officer for Warminster Township from 1989 to 2009—is facing a possible 94-to-185-year prison sentence, according to Bucks County prosecutors.

“I am not guilty of these crimes. I want my day in court,” a weeping Carey told the judge during a hearing Friday in Bucks County court on his request to withdraw the plea and go to trial., the Bucks County Courier News reported.

The testimony was the first time Carey spoke publicly since his April 2021 arrest on more than 100 counts of child sexual abuse involving five boys starting in the 1990s, the newspaper said.

Carey, 54, of Cape May Court House, N.J., is accused of sexually assaulting five teenage boys. He committed the acts, prosecutors said, while working as a DA.R.E. officer and running a program for troubled youth at the township’s recreation center.

Carey was arrested in April 2021 following a lengthy investigation by Bucks County Detectives and an inquiry by a Bucks County Investigating Grand Jury that found Carey sexually assaulted four boys between 1989 and 2009. That May, he was charged with the sexual assault of a fifth victim.