NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia man who didn’t show up for his trial and was convicted by a jury in absentia earlier this year was sent to jail on charges he had indecent contact with an underage girl while he was a guest in her family’s home in Bridgeport.
Anthony Quarles, 44, of the 800 block of Wynnewood Road, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11½ to 23 months in the county jail on charges of indecent assault and corruption of a minor in connection with an August 2023 incident at a residence on West Fifth Street in Bridgeport.
Judge Wendy G. Rothstein also ordered Quarles to complete three years of probation consecutive to parole, meaning Quarles will be under court supervision for about five years…