Eight former female clients of a Latrobe mental health therapist said in court Thursday they were harassed, sometimes groped and offered cash and drugs in return for nude photographs during counseling sessions.

One former client, now 29, described in a preliminary hearing before Unity District Judge Michael Mahady how, as an adult, she went to work cleaning Gregory Miscik’s Latrobe apartment after three years of private counseling sessions while in high school. She testified he pulled her into his Cherry Street apartment and raped her when she went to collect money in 2011.

“I’ve waited nine years to tell my story. … It’s hard,” she told Mahady as she dabbed her eyes with a tissue. “That was the last time I saw him. I (still had) a substance abuse problem and would tell my other counselors I saw afterward, but nothing ever happened.”

She first went to Miscik when she was 15, referred to him by juvenile probation and school officials, and claimed Miscik, now 59, almost immediately asked her for nude photographs of herself in exchange for money.

She also testified Miscik paid her cash for allowing him to grope her and alleged he sometimes masturbated as he looked at nude photographs she took of herself on her cellphone.

“My mother was sitting right out there in the waiting room sometimes,” she said.

“I would fail drug tests because I was still smoking weed then, but he would tell my probation officers I was clean without even testing me,” she said under questioning by Anthony Iannamorelli, an assistant district attorney.

She testified Miscik often gave her cash and sometimes “cocaine” to sell to make money before offering her the cleaning job.

“Sometimes he would leave it under his apartment rug outside the front door, in a drawer in the bathroom of his office. Sometimes I would be standing on the corner in downtown Latrobe, he would pull up in his old car and give me cash for a grope … then drive away,” she testified.

Mahady ordered Miscik to stand trial on a single counts of rape, indecent exposure and delivery of a controlled substance and multiple counts of child pornography, corruption of minors, harassment, sexual assault and knowingly possessing film of children depicted in sex acts filed by Latrobe police.

Miscik pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Another witness, now 15, detailed to Mahady that she began seeing Miscik for counseling in 2017, when she was in sixth grade. She then was in juvenile court for sending indecent photographs to a classmate on her cellphone.

“After we went to court, he said he wanted to see my photos. He said I had a nice butt,” she testified.

The girl testified although authorities had confiscated her cellphone, “Greg gave me money to buy a new phone.”

“He would pay me $20 for each photograph,” she said.

She said Miscik specifically directed her not to send the images to him on her cellphone, but he would look at them during her counseling sessions and then pay her.

Another witness, now in her 20s, said she began seeing Miscik for counseling in 2010 when she was in 10th grade. She told police he repeatedly offered her cash and drugs.

She told investigators Miscik also offered her cash for photographs of her having sex with her boyfriend.

“I felt confused. … I was there trying to recover from my addictions, and he’s offering me cocaine and methamphetamine. I told him I don’t do pictures,” the woman said.

Four other former clients between 20 and 42 testified they were harassed by Miscik in visits between 2017 through June.

Miscik’s attorney, Tim Andrews of Greensburg, said after the hearing — which lasted more than three hours — that his client vehemently denies the charges and intends to fight them in court.

“Obviously, especially with the first three witnesses, Mr. Miscik is sympathetic to the issues they had. But, having said that, he denies the allegations. We believe if you are going to bring charges such as this and ruin someone’s life, they should verify certain facts,” Andrews said. “Once the facts do come out, a number of things that were said today were not possible to have occurred.”

Miscik has no prior criminal record. He remains free on $65,000 bond.

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