Jul 1, 2026 By Mike Jones 3 min read

A Union Township man with a history of inappropriately touching young children is accused of indecent assault after he allegedly touched one girl’s chest under her shirt and followed other children around at a local grocery store.

Dustin Arch Deshong, who is already listed on the state police Megan’s Law website for separate indecent assault convictions more than a decade ago, was charged last week with indecent assault of a child and multiple stalking counts for separate incidents in late May and early June.

A couple was grocery shopping at Giant Eagle in Union Township on May 31 with their two young children and a friend’s daughter when a man began following the girls in the aisle, “smiling and looking at (one of the girls) weird,” according to Monongahela police, who provide protection for the township. The couple said the man was hiding behind shelves and circled around aisles while gawking at the girls, according to court documents.

The father eventually confronted the man, who made a comment about one of the girl’s clothes and said it in a “sexually disturbing manner,” police wrote in court documents. The father told his wife to take the children and leave the aisle, and the man left the store, police said.

Three days later on June 3, police said the man came back to the same grocery store, where he went up to two children who were with their mother and rubbed the girl’s chest and stomach under her shirt. The mother told investigators that the man had “a big smile on his face while he was rubbing (the girl’s) chest,” according to court documents. The woman asked the man what he was doing and told him to stop, prompting him to walk away with what she described as a “creepy, unsettling smile” on his face as he walked away and left the store, according to court documents.

The mother from the first incident later went onto the state police Megan’s Law website to look for possible offenders and recognized Deshong as the man she saw in the store, according to court documents.

After the incidents were reported to Monongahela police, investigators were able to match security footage of the man involved in the two incidents at the grocery store to Deshong’s photograph on the website, police said. When officers went to Deshong’s home to interview him about the situation, investigators said he was wearing the same shirt as the man in the surveillance videos.

Monongahela police charged Deshong with indecent assault of a child under 13, corruption of minors, harassment and eight counts of stalking for the two separate cases. Deshong, 41, was arraigned Friday by District Judge Phillippe Melograne, who sent him to the Washington County jail without bond ahead of his preliminary hearing tentatively scheduled for Monday at 2:45 p.m.

Online records show Deshong was convicted of indecent assault from incidents involving minors in 2008 and 2011.