Four victims were 12 or younger at time of the alleged attacks
Richard Ferrari A 76-year-old convicted sex offender from New Jersey is charged with committing a string of sexual assaults against four girls in Pennsylvania beginning in the mid-1990s.
Richard Ferrari of Lyndhurst faces 61 counts of a variety of charges, according to a report on PoconoRecord.com
The girls were between 5 and 12 years old when the alleged sexual assaults took place, the report said.
Authorities first learned of the alleged incidents in September 2010, when a then 22-year-old woman contacted Pennsylvania State Police to report Ferrari raped her when she was seven. She also told police Ferrari sexually assaulted three other girls.
The other accusers were interviewed by police separately in October of that year.
In 2011, Ferrari was convicted in Hudson County of aggravated sexual assault of a minor under age 13. He has since been at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in the Avenel section of Woodbridge, according to online Department of Corrections records.
Ferrari was arraigned on the Pennsylvania charges Wednesday in Monroe County.
The new charges include nine counts of rape, eight counts each of raping a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault and statutory sexual assault and five counts each of aggravated indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault and corrupting a minor.
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