Accuser takes stand in UPJ campus sexual assault trial

Apr. 5 — EBENSBURG, Pa. — A trial continued on Tuesday in Cambria County court against a former University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown resident assistant who is accused of sexually assaulting a then-freshman student there in 2013. Cliff Christopher Maloney Jr., 31, of Missouri, was charged in April 2022 with five counts related to the alleged assault after his accuser, a Pittsburgh-area woman who is now 28, began speaking to investigators in 2021. The woman took the witness stand on Monday, the first day of Maloney’s trial, and said that she moved into her UPJ dorm in August 2013 with…