A Butler County man was sentenced Tuesday to probation, but was paroled based on time served prior to sentencing and ordered to register with state police for the rest of his life after he pleaded no contest to assaulting a young girl in 2021 and was found to be a sexually violent predator.

Cody Weckerly, 30, pleaded guilty in Butler County Common Pleas Court to a felony charge of endangering the welfare of children and a misdemeanor charge of indecent assault. He was sentenced to consecutively serve 6 to 18 months of probation on both counts and was ordered to have no contact with the victim. He was given credit for having served 668 days in jail and was paroled.

A Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board report, which was submitted as evidence, determined Weckerly is a sexually violent predator under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

A board representative was going to testify about Weckerly’s evaluation and the report, but was excused after public defender Joseph Smith opted not to challenge the report.

Smith said Weckerly has intellectual disabilities and qualifies for lifetime, round-the-clock housing.

Judge Maura Palumbi ordered Weckerly to register with state police for the rest of his life due to his sexually violent predator designation.

Before the sentenced was imposed, the girl’s father said his daughter was significantly impacted by the assaults, but the impacts gradually faded.

“She doesn’t talk about it. We don’t talk about it,” he said.

In October 2024, Weckerly was found incompetent to stand trial by Judge Timothy McCune, who is now a senior judge. He ordered Weckerly to undergo a competency restoration program at the Butler County Prison. The goal of the program was to attempt to rehabilitate Weckerly to a point he was competent to stand trial.

In March 2025, McCune found Weckerly’s competency had been restored. Weckerly pleaded no contest and reached a plea agreement with the district attorney’s office in October 2025.

State police filed 12 charges against Weckerly in January 2024 after receiving a referral from ChildLine in July 2023 for sexually assaulting the girl six to eight times over several months in Washington Township.

In an interview at the Butler County Children’s Advocacy Center, the girl detailed multiple instances of sexual assault by Weckerly, according to police.