4/15/14 Grand jury hands down rape charges against Doylestown man in 18 count indictment

  • By Nick Sabo
  • April 15, 2014
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SUMMARY: Man faces up to 10 life sentences A Doylestown man is facing up to 10 life sentences after the Holmes County grand jury handed down an 18 count indictment on charges that he raped a young girl over an 11 year period. Mitchell L. Vaughn, 64, is charged in Holmes County Common Pleas Court with nine counts of rape, five counts of gross sexual imposition and three counts of felonious sexual penetration. Two of the felonious sexual penetration charges and six rape charges carry life sentences, due to the alleged victim being under the age of 13 at the time. The charges involve two girls and date back to the 1980s. According to Holmes County Prosecuting Attorney Steve Knowling, the girls are not related and do not know each other. The charges stem from April of 1987 to December of 2001. The first charge in the indictment involves a seven-year-old girl. The charge involving the seven year old girl is gross sexual imposition and alleges Vaughn had sexual contact with the girl at some time in April to August of 1987. The remaining counts involve another girl, with the alleged rape and sexual abuse occurring in a 11 year period from 1990 to 2001. The girl was four-years-old, to 15-years-old, at the time. Vaughn used “force or threat of force” when committing the rape offenses, according to the indictment. The charges were brought against Vaughn after one of the girls, now grown up, was receiving help for other issues and the alleged crimes came up, according to Holmes County Sheriff’s reports. Knowling said the investigation into Vaughn’s alleged actions “is open and ongoing” as to whether there may be other victims.


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