A 44-year-old Ross Township man is charged with having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.
Ross police filed a dozen charges on Wednesday, March 11 against Daniel Thomas Hastings.
They include felony counts of statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, sexual assault and corruption of minors and misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors, indecent assault and furnishing alcohol to a minor.
Township police filed eight additional charges against Hastings about a week later, on March 17, after a search of Hastings’ phone found two nude photos of the girl that he had sent to two different people, according to a second criminal complaint.
In the original criminal complaint against Hastings, Ross police said the girl reported to them on Jan. 2 that she had been having a sexual relationship with Hastings, whom she had met through his daughter in late August 2025.
The girl told police that Hastings gave them alcohol and marijuana at his home, the complaint states.
That happened again sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving. The girl said she had been sleeping on the couch, and was heavily under the influence, when she first had sex with Hastings, according to the complaint.
They had sex again on Dec. 12 and Dec. 27, the complaint states.
On Dec. 12, Hastings had a bouquet of flowers, candles and wine set up on his dining room table. The girl took a photo of the flowers, which was provided to police, the complaint states.
On Dec. 27, Hastings rented a motel room for his daughter so he and the girl could be alone, the complaint states. Police said they obtained a receipt from the motel and Hastings was seen on surveillance video at its front desk. Police also tracked his movements using license plate readers.
Hastings was arraigned on the first batch of charges on March 12. He was released from the Allegheny County Jail after posting $50,000 bond, according to court records.
However, Hastings was denied bail as a “threat to the victim” when he was arraigned on the additional charges on March 22, court records say.
His preliminary hearing on the first set of charges, scheduled for March 25, and a preliminary hearing on the second set scheduled for April 1 were delayed. He is now scheduled for preliminary hearings in both cases on May 13 before District Judge Richard G. Opiela.
Hastings’ listed attorney, Wendy Lynne Williams, could not immediately be reached for comment.