Man Accused of Raping 3-Year-Old Girl
NBC 10
June 12, 2006
http://www.nbc10.com/news/9359202/detail.html
Lower Alsace Township, Pa. -- On Monday, worried parents met with the operators of a Berks County day-care center where a class aide was arrested for sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl.
Since Samuel Ervin's arrest, police have interviewed several children at the church-run Trinity Learning Center because they said they think he might have molested more than one child.
Day-care center officials have brought in counselors to meet with the students and their parents.
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NBC 10 News talked with one man who said he has been consumed with anger by the things his 3-year-old son has told him.
"It's been a living nightmare. Every day it gets worse and worse and worse," the man said.
The man has kept his son home for more than three days. Each day, he said, his son talks about the day police said one of his classmates was raped.
"He recalls that victim screaming while he was sleeping. Then you ask him what happened after that and he said, 'She screams louder and louder,'" the man said.
The man claims his son has said things about Ervin that leads him to believe his son might have also been sexually abused.
"He said this yesterday that the teacher pees on the floor in the classroom, saying that the teacher's private parts are yucky," the father said.
Police have not interviewed this man's son, but said that they are aggressively investigating eight other possible cases of abuse.
"For him, hopefully it will be something that he totally forgets about. But it is something that we will never forget about," the father said.
Ervin, 23, remains in Berks' County Prison. He has been charged with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor and related offenses. Any additional charges could happen as early as next week.
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