I have previously noted that the credentialed media frequently conceal the sex of the victims of child molestation, something which makes me believe that this is being done to hide the frequency with which the molestation is homosexual in nature. This time, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Vinny Vella put it right out in front for us.

A Bucks County music teacher and serial molester of 18 boys sentenced to decades in prison

Timothy Shay was sentenced to 18 to 54 years in state prison on Tuesday for molesting 18 students over the course of three decades.

by Vinny Vella | Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | 2:59 PM EDT

Over three decades, in music shop backrooms and, sometimes, his own home, Timothy Shay molested 18 boys whose parents trusted him to teach them piano and saxophone lessons.

On Tuesday, as Shay, 50, was sentenced to 18 to 54 years in state prison, Bucks County Court Judge Stephen Corr expressed outrage over his crimes.

“You stole from these boys their childhoods, you stole from them their love of music, you stole from them their ability to love, and you stole from them their adulthood, because they are still living with this,” Corr said.

“Quite frankly, if someone hadn’t spoken up and given these men the courage to speak up, you might still be out there perpetrating your crime on other victims,” he added.

No, of course the Inquirer didn’t publish the malefactor’s mugshot, though one photo shows it in the background, enough to show that he’s white, but not really enough to make him recognizable. Fortunately NBC Channel 10 in Philly also carried the story, and television being a visually-oriented medium, used the mugshot.

Shay, of Middletown Township, pleaded no contest in September to corruption of minors and related crimes in connection with the assaults, which began in the late 1990s and ended only with his arrest in February 2025, prosecutors said. That arrest came after one victim, decades after his abuse occurred, filed a police report.

So, he got away with it for a long, long time.

The details of his sometimes-slow grooming of his young victims can be found at the embedded link; I will not repeat it here. But I will suggest that, as Mark Harmon playing Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS once said while interrogating a young punk, he will not do well in prison. Sentenced to 18 to 54 years, unless something changes, he won’t get out of prison until he’s in his late sixties at the earliest, and could very well only leave prison feet-first.