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NANTICOKE &mdash; A man currently incarcerated in state prison on child pornography charges is now facing indecent sexual assault charges after detectives say he assaulted a minor in his home on numerous occasions.
				Jayson Montanez, 34, formerly of Nanticoke but currently serving time at State Correctional Institute Houtzdale, now faces an additional eight felony charges, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, stemming from an incident that was reported to investigators back in 2014.
				According to the criminal complaint:
				On July 5, 2014, the Nanticoke City Police Department received a phone call from a woman from New York State who said one of her children told the woman that Montanez had shown the child his genitals during visits, and made the child touch them.
				Officers advised her to file a report with her local police department, and also requested to interview the children.
				A deputy from the Sullivan County, N.Y. Sheriff&rsquo;s Department reported that he had interviewed the children the following day, on July 6. The report was forwarded to Nanticoke City police, and arrangements were made to have the children interviewed at the Children&rsquo;s Advocacy Center of NEPA.
				During the interview, the child that had initially told her mother about Montanez&rsquo;s abuse was able to identify where Montanez had touched her using a doll, and couldn&rsquo;t put a number on how many times the abuse had occurred, only telling the deputy that it had happened &ldquo;a lot.&rdquo;
				The interview with the Children&rsquo;s Advocacy Center took place on July 9, 2014, with investigators from Nanticoke City present. The child&rsquo;s answers were consistent with what she told the Sullivan County deputy in terms of the specific details of abuse.
				The lead investigator on the case from Nanticoke passed away in 2016, at which point jurisdiction was transferred to the Luzerne County District Attorney&rsquo;s Office.
				Luzerne County detectives interviewed the victim again in February of this year, and the victim&rsquo;s story matched what they told investigators back in 2014.
				Montanez has had a history of indecent behavior involving minors: he had been previously charged with multiple felony child abuse charges in 2014 before they were <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/809995/child-sexual-assault-charges-dismissed-against-nanticoke-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed by an appellate court ruling last year</a>, and is currently incarcerated on charges filed in 2017 that he <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/667655/667655" target="_blank" rel="noopener">possessed child pornography on his cell phone.</a>
				The new charges against Montanez were filed last Tuesday, and include two counts of indeviate sexual intercourse with a child, two counts of aggravated indecent assault of a child, two counts of indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old, and one count of corruption of minors.
				A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 9.

Child porn convict faces assault charges