Bensalem Police have arrested Gerald Malloy of Poplar Road, Trevose PA for numerous crimes related to sexual assault of a 12 year old child.

Malloy was on a dating app when he solicited a 12 year old boy to have a sexual encounter with him.  Malloy sent sexually explicit photographs to the child and asked for the same type of photographs in return.  He then continued the conversation via text and set up a meeting to have a sexual encounter.  Malloy was very explicit as to what he wanted to do sexually to the child once they met.

Bensalem Police were on location when Malloy arrived at the Neshaminy Mall for the sexual encounter and he was taken into custody.  Bensalem Police would like to stress that no child was physically assaulted or present at the time of Malloy's arrest.

Gerald Malloy was arraigned by District Justice Baranoski and sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10% of $500,000.  Other conditions of bail were that Malloy was not to have any unsupervised contact with minors or unsupervised use of the internet.