A spokesman for the attorney general’s office said that there is an ongoing investigation into former Haverford District Justice Gerald C. Liberace, who was sentence Tuesday morning from six to 12 months at the Delaware County Correctional Facility for sexually abusing his then 12-year-old stepdaughter. 

Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office, said that he could not reveal any more information regarding the ongoing investigation into Liberace, but did confirm that the attorney general’s office is not finished with the case.

He did say that he was happy with the verdict.

“It sends a clear message that the attorney general and the courts will not tolerate that type of behavior,” he told the Haverford-Havertown Patch.

Assistant District Attorney Erica Parham told Patch that the county judges recused themselves from the case and Philadelphia Senior Judge John L. Braxton was brought in, who handed down Liberace’s sentence.

Back in January of this year Liberace, who lives in Havertown, was found guilty of charges that he endangered the welfare of a child and corruption of a minor.

Evidence and testimony from the police and the girl, who is now 18, regarding the case was presented to an investigating grand jury, which recommended that criminal charges be filed against the 69-year-old Liberace in 2010, who was arrested in August of that year, according to a press release that Frederiksen provided to Patch.

Frederiksen said the grand jury based its recommendations on two law enforcement phone recordings between the girl and Liberace.

“You know I did things I guess that were inappropriate and the only thing I can say is that I felt very close to you and it breaks my heart that you’re not in my life anymore. And, well, you know I, I don't know what to say. I mean I’m sorry if I, you know, if I did things that were, that were not proper,” Liberace said in the recording, according to a report to a court by the grand jury, which Frederiksen gave to Patch. 

“Look, I should not have rubbed your rear end. I should not have done it. I didn't mean anything sexual about it,” he said.

Frederiksen said that Liberace’s Media attorney, Mark P. Much, stated that Liberace never admitted to anything sexual with the girl.

Much has not returned a message left for him by Patch. 

The girl in the case is the daughter of a woman who was married to Liberace in 2004, according to the grand jury report.

On a Saturday night in August of 2004, the girl’s mother was staying with a friend in Brigantine, N.J., while Liberace and the girl stayed at their Havertown home.

According to the grand jury report, the girl said that she climbed into Liberace’s bed because she could not sleep since her mother was away. It was common for the girl to climb into the bed that Liberace and her mother shared when she had trouble sleeping, the report stated.

“At that time, the victim was wearing panties and pajamas, and was lying on her stomach. Liberace was scratching her back under her clothing, on her bare skin. He then reached his hand under her panties, below the waist line, and began to rub the victim's bare buttocks,” the grand jury report stated. “… the victim ultimately was positioned on her back. Liberace then began to rub her vaginal area under her panties …”

In 2007 the woman and her daughter moved out of the home shared by Liberace and she later told her mother what Liberace had done to her, according to the report.

In the fall of 2008 the girl moved in with her biological father and his wife and children, the report continued. In 2009, once she became comfortable with her new surroundings the girl told her father what had happened to her, stated the report.

She went to see a therapist and told her of the incident involving Liberace, who lived on Nancy Drive in Havertown. Under the law, the therapist reported the crime, according to the report. The girl eventually went to the Haverford Township Police Department and from there the case went to the district attorney's office in Delaware County, the report stated.