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Pennsylvania pedophile who raped 8-year-old girl for over 4 years causing a lifetime of trauma gets 160 years jail term

She told police that Gordon Lee Young had started assaulting her in 1996 when she was 8 and had threatened to break her jaw if she told anyone. She had been struggling with the impact of the abuse throughout her adult life
UPDATED FEB 19, 2020
(Source : Police Department)
(Source : Police Department)

LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA: A Pennsylvania man who raped a young girl for four years starting from when she was just eight years of age has been sentenced to more than a century in prison.

Gordon Lee Young, classified as a sexually violent predator because of a previous conviction, came to the attention of authorities late in 2018 after the victim came forward to report the sexual abuse, according to Penn Live.  

She told the police that 56-year-old Young had started assaulting her in 1996 when she was eight and that she was afraid to come out before because he had threatened to break her jaw if she told anyone. She said she had been struggling with the impact of the abuse throughout her adult life.

Young was already under lifetime supervision because of a 2007 conviction on a possession of child pornography charge when the victim spoke up. He had received a 51-month sentence and had been twice sent back to prison in 2014 and 2018 for six months each for violating the terms of his supervision.

When confronted with the most recent allegations, he confessed he regularly engaged in oral sex with the girl to show her he cared for her, according to documents. Then, during court proceedings, he said the victim could not have been afraid as she claimed because she "kept coming back".

He eventually pleaded guilty to eight counts of forcible rape as part of a plea deal that saw prosecutors dismiss 33 related counts, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.

District Attorney David A. Strouse asked Clinton County Judge Michael F. Salisbury to put Young in jail for the rest of his life, calling the 56-year-old "disgusting and reprehensible".

Salisbury noted that the victim had suffered from depression, attempted to take her life, and had turned to drugs as a result of the trauma inflicted on her by Young before handing down a sentence of 40 to 160 years, stating his intention was to "remove the defendant from society".

The sentence means Young will not be eligible for parole until he is 96 years old.

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