The victim told a substitute teacher at her elementary school in early 2012, when she was 11, that the police chief had raped her from the time she was 4.
and related offenses in abuse the victim said began when she was about 4 years old and occurred hundreds of times over the following seven years.Police Chief Brent Robert Getz, 30, and a friend of his languished for several years after police first learned of the allegations.
According to Getz’s 2019 arrest affidavit, the victim told a substitute teacher at her elementary school in early 2012, when she was 11, that Wagner had raped her. “These are cases that are heartbreaking because it has taken this child so long to get justice as well as for this child to ensure they were safe, for children in the community to be safe,” Slingsby said.the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandalA Franklin Township police officer spoke with Wagner in May 2012, but Wagner stopped the interview after a few minutes and obtained a lawyer, according to the affidavit.
Three years later, in 2015, a criminal complaint was prepared against Wagner but was dismissed by a district judge because of what the attorney general’s office has described as a paperwork error.
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