Man gets jail time for sex assault of young girl

Victim tells of being ‘marred’ by ordeal

A 67-year-old man has been sentenced to jail time in the sexual assault of a young girl.

A 67-year-old man who sexually assaulted a young girl at his home for years while he lived in Chester County was sentenced Thursday to eight to 16 years in state prison for the crimes that his victim said left her “marred” by depression and posttraumatic stress.

The woman, now in her 30s, was forced to perform oral sex on the man, Michael J. “Milo” Mozzani, each Saturday while his wife was at work, she told state police in 2014, when she reported the abuse. She was threatened with beatings if she ever revealed what he made her do, she told Common Pleas Judge James P. MacElree II during an emotional court address.

“I felt wounded and angry all the time,” said the woman, reading from a prepared statement. “I didn’t know how to get away. It took me years of therapy to come to the realization that what happened to me was not my fault.

“I am here for the truth,” she told MacElree. “The defendant took away my childhood.” The woman’s name is being withheld by the Daily Local News because of the nature of the charges.

But when she said that what she wanted was an acknowledgement from Mozzani of what he had done, she was disappointed. Beyond admitting that he had sexually abused her over a five year period when she was between 8 and 13 years old as part of the plea agreement, Mozzani remained silent. “I have noting to say, your honor,” Mozzani replied when MacElree asked if he wished to make a statement.

Mozzani, of Gap, Lancaster County, who is retired, pleaded guilty to three counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child. In addition to the prison time, he must spend five years on probation and is required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

The terms of the plea were worked out between Assistant District Attorney Megan King of the D.A,’s Child Abuse Unit and defense attorney Albert C. Sardella of Coatesville. MacElree granted Sardella’s request to allow his client to report to prison May 30 so he could get his affairs in order. He has been on house arrest since his release on bail in May 2016, a few weeks after his arrest.

According to an affidavit filed by state police Trooper Lori Edgar, the woman reported the abuse in October 2014, saying that it had occurred at two residences in the county, one in West Bradford and another in Valley. The incidents took place between 1993 and 1998.