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Bucks Contractor Abused Homeowner's Son At Job Site, Jury Finds
A contractor in Bucks County awaits sentencing after being convicted of sexually assaulting the child of a client in 2021, officials say.
Jeffrey T. Lukens, 62, of Buckingham Township, was found guilty of felony indecent assault of a child under 13 and unlawful contact with a minor, said Bucks District Attorney Matthew Weintraub. The jury delivered its verdict Wednesday, March 15 following a three-day trial, the DA said.
In September 2021, jurors were told, Lukens was hired by a Newtown Township homeowner to remove bees from the basement. While on the site, prosecutors said…
2 Inmates Die In Three Days After Being Found Unresponsive In PA Prison: DOC
A man who intimidated a witness and a man who repeatedly raped a six-year-old girl were both found unresponsive in their cells and have died, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections tells Daily Voice.
Robert Dale Williams, 40, of Millersville, was found unresponsive inside his cell at the state correctional institutional Rockview in Benner Township on Friday, March 3, 2023, and Andrew Yuhas, 61, of Wilkes-Barre, was also found the same way in his cell the following Monday, March 6, according to two separate statements from the DOC.
In both cases, SCI Rockview Prison staff and …
Sex Abuse Suspect Tried To Arrange Victim's Murder From Berks Jail: Documents
An ex-doctor who is charged with sexually abusing and secretly recording children was trying to arrange his accuser's murder, prosecutors allege.
Justin S. Rutherford, 33, was charged with rape, sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, and more in October 2021 and incarcerated at the Berks County lockup.
But while in police custody, authorities say the former family medicine practitioner was goading an unnamed individual to kill one of his alleged victims, according to charging documents obtained by Daily Voice.
In the criminal complaint, a Berks dete…