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Lansdale Teen Charged with 2006 Rape of 8-Year-Old Girl
Timothy Patrick Dunigan IV, 19, of Columbia Avenue, is charged with 28 felonies in connection with an alleged incident that occurred when a girl, now 15, was eight or nine years old in 2006
A Lansdale teenager has been charged with 33 criminal offenses — including 28 felonies — involving the alleged statutory rape and indecent assault of a teenage girl that began when she was eight or nine years old, and he was 12 years old, in June 2006.
Timothy Patrick Dunigan IV, 19, of the 700 block of Columbia Avenue, is charged with the following offenses, allegedly committed between 2006 and October 2012:
- Four felony counts of rape of a child
- Four felony counts of rape - threat of forcible compulsion
- Four felony counts of statutory sexual assault
- Four felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child
- Four felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse - threat of forcible compulsion
- Four felony counts of sexual assault
- Four felony counts of aggravated indecent sexual assault of a child
- Four misdemeanor counts of indecent assault on a person less than 13 years old
- One misdemeanor count of terroristic threats
Dunigan IV was arraigned Nov. 23 before District Judge Harold Borek. A preliminary hearing is set for Jan. 10 at 2:30 p.m.
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Bail was set at 10 percent of $50,000 and $5,000 cash was posted by a relative on Nov. 23, according to court records.
According to Matt Coughlin of The Intelligencer, the victim was allegedly molested when she was eight or nine. She filed a report with police this month.
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According to court documents, the alleged victim is now 15 years old. She told police she was forced to perform oral sex on Dunigan, according to documents.
According to the affidavit, Dunigan allegedly threatened to break both of the girl's arms so she couldn't fight back. Dunigan allegedly told her the assaults would get worse if she stopped the alleged trysts.
According to the article, Dunigan was interviewed by police and admitted playing doctor with the girl. The assaults began when Dunigan IV was a juvenile, according to the article.
Dunigan IV has retained child advocate attorney Ethan O'Shea of the law firm Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin in Upper Gwynedd.
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