Editor’s note: Pocono Review first reported on this case in May 2026, including the plea deal, the 50+ charges dropped, and the DA’s decision not to issue a press release. Read that report here.
Tara Glan raped an intellectually disabled woman and four children over five years from a church van in Taylor. He admitted it. He pleaded guilty in February to five felonies. The Lackawanna County District Attorney’s office said nothing.
On Monday, Judge Michael J. Barrasse sentenced Glan to 43.5 to 97 years in state prison. Glan is 23. He will be in his mid-60s before he’s eligible for parole consideration. That same day, DA Brian Gallagher issued a press release.
“The conduct in this case is nothing short of monstrous,” Gallagher said. “This defendant repeatedly preyed upon vulnerable children and a mentally disabled victim, causing unimaginable trauma and lifelong harm. Today’s sentence ensures the predator will spend the rest of his life behind bars.”
Pocono Review reported on the plea earlier this month when Gallagher’s office stayed quiet. Glan’s guilty plea covered five separate cases — one per victim — and came with a deal that dropped more than 50 additional charges. One outlet reported the outcome as Glan being “found guilty,” language that implies a jury verdict. There was no trial.
Five Years of Abuse
Glan drove the van and ran the youth group at Ray of Hope Church, 258 N. Main St., Taylor. The abuse ran from August 2020 — when he was 17, charged as an adult — through February 22, 2025, seven weeks before NCMEC cyber tip investigators showed up at his door with a warrant. He was convicted on three counts of rape of a child, one count of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, and one count of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person who suffers a mental disability. The full scope of the five cases is in our earlier reporting.
A Sexual Offenders Assessment Board evaluation was ordered February 4 to determine whether Barrasse would designate Glan a Sexually Violent Predator — lifetime quarterly registration under SORNA. Gallagher’s statement didn’t say whether that designation was entered Monday.
Co-Defendant and Open Cases
Glan was originally charged alongside a second suspect: a teenager who raped a child once inside Ray of Hope Church and once at Glan’s Scranton residence while Glan filmed it. That suspect was initially charged as an adult. His case has since been moved to juvenile court.
The child pornography case that started all of it — CP-35-CR-0001179-2025, the filmed assault that triggered the NCMEC tip — remains technically open in Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas. Prosecutors moved to drop it on February 2 alongside the guilty pleas. The formal dismissal hadn’t processed as of this week.
Ray of Hope Church, where at least eight of the documented assaults took place, has not been asked publicly to account for any of this.
This is Pocono Review’s second report on the Glan case. Our earlier reporting on the plea deal, the dropped charges, and the DA’s public silence is here. Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas dockets CP-35-CR-0001179-2025 through CP-35-CR-0001195-2025 were used in the preparation of this report. Tips can be sent to tips@poconoreview.com. All sources are kept confidential.