Ricky Lynn “Rick” Troutman, retired longtime owner of Camelot Cleaners at 12th and Walnut Streets in Lebanon, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in August to four felony charges of sexual abuse of children and a fifth felony charge of criminal use of a communication facility.
Sentencing is currently set for Dec. 4, but is likely to be delayed since all Lebanon County Common Pleas Court judges have disqualified themselves, requiring the appointment of an out-of-county sentencing judge.
The charges against Troutman stem from a tip that a user of a Canadian instant messaging service known as Kik had uploaded “(2) digital files of child pornography” containing naked images of a male and female, both “prepubescent.”
That tip led to a search of Troutman’s residence by the Pennsylvania State Police Computer Crime Unit, which uncovered three illegal images, two still photos and a video on Troutman’s cellphone. Two were photos of a nude female, approximately 2 years old, and the third was of a nude male, approximately 1 year old.
Investigators also allege that Troutman uploaded a video of an unidentified naked female, approximately 7 to 9 years old.
Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf told LebTown on March 20 that the search of Troutman’s home uncovered about 1 million pornographic images, of which about 200,000 were believed to be illegal images of children.
Those additional images are not mentioned in investigators’ court filings or the official criminal charges filed in Lebanon County court. However, Hess Graf told LebTown that Pennsylvania law still allows evidence of the total number of illegal images to be considered by the sentencing judge.
According to documents filed in connection with Troutman’s Aug. 27 guilty plea to all charges, the district attorney has agreed to recommend a 30-month minimum prison sentence, which would require a maximum sentence of at least 60 months under Pennsylvania sentencing law.
The sentencing judge will be free to set a maximum sentence, which could be up to 47 years.
Troutman has been incarcerated at the Lebanon County jail in lieu of $200,000 bail since his arrest on Dec. 15, 2023. He will be entitled to credit against his sentence for his time served.
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