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Eric Dorwart, 54, of the 500 block of Pleasure Road in Manheim Township has been charged for the second time in three months for sexually assaulting children, the DA explained.
Dorwart was matched by DNA to the cold case assault of a boy and girl on West Newport Road, Gordonville, Leacock on April 4th, 1997, according to the police. A Rutter's coffee cup lid matched him to semen found on the children, as Daily Voice previously reported.
He was arrested and released after posting $25,000 bail, according to court records.
Since then Pennsylvania State Police executed a search warrant of his home two laptops and an iPhone full of child pornography.
The DA detailed the following about what authorities found on the devices:
"The iPhone yielded approximately 464 images of fetish material with 61 images consistent with child pornography involving infant and toddler-aged victims. Search warrants executed on the laptops indicated there were 1,672 images consistent with child pornography and associated erotica. Of those images, 167 were identified as Dorwart engaged in sexual contact with three separate prepubescent children."
The infants in the images "were discovered to be infants that the Dorwart family may have babysat," state police said.
In addition to his original charges, which you can read about here, Durwart has been charged with photographing, filming, and depicting a computer sex act with a child under 18; possessing child pornography; rape of a child; involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child; and aggravated indecent assault of a child, according to the DA. Court documents were not immediately available at the time of writing.
Assistant District Attorney Fritz Haverstick is prosecuting both cases.
The Pennsylvania State Police is continuing to investigate and identify the victims.
"Anyone with information who can assist in identifying the victims and any additional potential victims," is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police Troopers Dakota Baer or Brian McNally at 717-299-7650.
This is not the first infant porn or babysitter assaulting children article Daily Voice has published in recent weeks. Click here to read about Pennsbury SD Music Instructor Christopher Bygot allegedly confessing to having thousands of child porn images including that of infants or click here to read about Dominic Barbagallo supposedly telling predator hunters how he sexually assaulted a nonverbal boy he babysat.
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