Crime & Safety
Due in Court: Principal Charged with Indecent Assault of Teen Inside McCandless Gym
The suspect is the Principal of the city of Pittsburgh Brookline School.
An Allison Park man accused of masturbating in front of a 17 year-old boy inside the sauna at the LA Fitness on Duncan Avenue in McCandless Crossing is due in court Wednesday morning.
According to the Aug. 12 criminal complaint, Alfonzo DeIuliis, 37, is also accused of touching the boy on the leg and asking if he could perform oral sex on him.
A few weeks later, DeIuliis, was charged with one additional count each of open lewdness and indecent exposure.
After seeing reports in the media, a college student came forward and told police DeIuliis masturbated in the gym shower stall across from his inside the McCandless LA Fitness this summer. The man said the incident began in the sauna, where DeIuliis touched himself, the complaint says, before following the man into the shower area.
His attorney, Phil DiLucente, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that DeIuliis did nothing wrong.
"We will fight these charges -- every single one of them," DiLucente told the PG.
DeIuliis is on paid administrative leave from his job as Principal of Pittsburgh Brookline K-8.
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