A Greene County man already convicted last year of molesting a young girl was found guilty Friday on thousands of counts for sexually abusing a different child over several years.
Matthew S. Perry, 44, of Monongahela, was convicted by the jury more than 13,000 separate charges following a three-day trial at the Greene County Courthouse.
State police charged him in October 2020 for the ongoing abuse of the girl dating back to 2008.
The jury convicted Perry on all felony charges that include child rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault and corruption of a minor, along with misdemeanor counts of indecent assault of a child. It’s not known when Perry will be sentenced, although he’s been incarcerated since 2017 since his arrest.
“The true heroes here are the victims who were brave enough to face the defendant in the courtroom and tell their story to 12 jurors,” Greene County District Attorney David Russo said in a written statement. “They detailed the horrible crimes committed.”
Perry was previously convicted by a different Greene County jury last December in another case involving a different girl he abused on several occasions in 2016 and 2017. President Judge Lou Dayich sentenced him in May to serve 40 to 80 years in prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender with the state police’s Megan’s Law list for the rest of his life.
“It is unimaginable the horrifying things that human beings are capable of. Specifically in this case, where the defendant was raping a child for years,” Russo said.
Perry has been jailed since he was arrested in Morgantown, W.Va., in August 2017, nearly three months after state police filed charges in the original case. It took more than four years for Perry to go to trial after he was originally deemed incompetent to face the charges and was admitted for mental health treatment on three separate occasions at Torrance State Hospital near Blairsville.
His wife, Cheyenna Perry, 40, pleaded guilty in December 2018 to recording videos and taking photographs of a girl engaged in sexual acts, and then sending them to her husband while he was trying to evade capture in the summer of 2017. She was sentenced to serve 3½ to 7 years in state prison and ordered to register for life as a sex offender after she pleaded guilty to all charges in exchange for her cooperation in her husband’s case.
