An Allegheny County man was resentenced Tuesday to the same amount of time in prison he received in 2013 when he was originally sentenced to 182 to 364 months in state prison after a jury found him guilty of 217 counts of possessing child pornography and other child sexual assault charges.

Ronald Scott Morgan, 58, of Pittsburgh, whose prior sentences were appealed and vacated, was resentenced by Butler County Common Pleas Court Judge Timothy McCune, who gave Morgan credit for the time he has been incarcerated since May 22, 2013.

Morgan was originally charged by state police with 762 charges in 2011 for incidents that took place in June 2007.

A jury found him guilty of 217 of those charges in May 2013. The other charges were withdrawn. Morgan was convicted of having more than 100 pornographic images of a young Butler County girl taken over a four-year period and sexual assault. He was a friend of the victim’s mother.

In February 2014, he was sentenced to 182 to 364 months in prison by now-Senior Judge William Shaffer, who presided over the trial.

Morgan appealed the sentence to state Superior Court several times, resulting the case being sent back to Shaffer. The court reprimanded Shaffer in one appeal for not conducting a new sentencing hearing, court officials said. Shaffer vacated the last sentence he imposed in November 2021 and recused himself from the case, according to court officials.

In court Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Mark Lope asked McCune to sentence Morgan to serve the minimum prison term on each count consecutively.

Lope said Morgan had contact with the victim for four years from May 2007 to April 2011 when he was 44 to 48 years old and the victim was 12 to 16 years old. He said the case involved betrayal by a family friend.

Assistant Public Defender Joseph Leonard Smith asked for the original sentence to be reduced by half. He said Morgan has been an exemplary inmate, had no criminal history prior to this case and worked as a self-employed mechanic.

McCune sentenced Morgan to two consecutive terms of 60 to 120 months for two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, or IDSI, with a person under 16 years old, 12 to 24 months concurrently for statutory sexual assault, 36 to 72 months consecutively to the IDSI sentence, 14 to 28 months consecutively to the IDSI and statutory sexual assault sentences for 103 counts of possessing computer images of child sex acts, 12 to 24 months consecutively for endangering the welfare of children, and nine to 18 months concurrently for corruption of minors. No further penalty was ordered for two counts of possession of a controlled substance, 103 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of indecent assault of a person under 16.

McCune noted that Morgan has been determined to be a sexually violent predator under Megan’s law.