A woman who went on the run after being charged – in 2015 - with sexual abuse of a child was finally sentenced in Lancaster County Court.

Nicole Fritchlee will serve 5¼ to 12 years in prison regarding four charges, including felony counts of sexual assault and unlawful contact with a minor.

Assistant District Attorney Fritz Haverstick said Fritchlee “delayed justice” by fleeing after West Hempfield Township police filed charges in September 2015.

ADA Haverstick said it was “despicable” that Fritchlee not only abused the girl herself, but also refused to act when a co-defendant (her husband at the time) also abused the girl.

Fritchlee was arrested in New Jersey in 2018 for a separate domestic violence incident. She provided police with a false name, but officers determined who she really was.

All parties appeared via video conference for the sentencing hearing last week.

Lancaster County Judge Dennis Reinaker ordered sentence following Fritchlee’s guilty plea to the four charges.

The girl was abused, beginning when she was 7 years old, between 2006 and 2008 at a West Hempfield Township home.

Jason Fritchlee, who the abused the girl multiple times, is serving a state prison sentence for the Lancaster County case and a conviction in York County.

Nicole Fritchlee did not appear for preliminary arraignment or a preliminary hearing back in 2015; the preliminary hearing was held in her absence.

At sentencing, Judge Reinaker stopped Fritchlee multiple times from talking to the victim.

MEDIA CONTACT: Brett A. Hambright, 717-295-2041; bhambright@co.lancaster.pa.us; Twitter: @BrettHambright