Robert Carl Yeager is on trial in York County court for allegedly abducting a 7-year-old neighbor girl through her grandmother’s living room window, taking her to his nearby trailer, raping her and then returning her through the same window.
The girl later told police that Yeager, who she identified by his forearm tattoos, threatened to kill her family if she told anyone about the assault.
Robert Carl Yeager
Yeager had been offered a plea agreement of 10 to 20 years in prison in May 2014 in exchange for a guilty plea to rape of a child. With no action on that offer, Monday, a jury was seated to hear his case.
The alleged victim told Northern York County Regional Police that she was asleep on a recliner in her grandmother’s Paradise Township trailer around 4 a.m. June 24, 2013, when a man pulled her out through the window. She said he covered her eyes and mouth and that she was unsure where she was taken.
After the alleged assault, her attacker reportedly told her he would kill her “mom, sister and grandma” if she told anyone.
Upon her return to her grandmother’s trailer through the same window, she immediately woke her grandmother and told her what allegedly had happened, police stated.
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