PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain
announced that Evan Burgess, 28, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 78
months’ imprisonment followed by fifteen years of supervised release by the
United States District Judge Timothy J. Savage.
The defendant will be required to register as a sex offender as a result
of this conviction.
The defendant, a former karate instructor at Destolfo’s
Premier Martial Arts in Conshohocken, previously pleaded guilty in June 2019 to
two counts of traveling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual
conduct with two minors, who were his teenage karate students at the time of
the incidents. These incidents occurred
while the defendant and his victims were attending karate tournaments in August
2016 in National Harbor, Maryland and in September 2014 in East Elmhurst, New
York.
“Burgess took advantage of his position of trust as an
instructor of young men to abuse them – sometimes brazenly while other adults
were in the room or nearby,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “Child abuse and exploitation are heinous
crimes which my Office takes very seriously.
Burgess will now pay for his crimes behind bars where he belongs.”
The case was investigated by the FBI and Whitpain Township
Police, and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kelly
Harrell.
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