State police at Lykens charged a Williamstown man with the rape of an underage babysitter, incidents that resulted in a pregnancy and the birth of a child, police said Wednesday night.
On Wednesday, police took the accused, Donald Edward McCready, 198 E. Market St., Apt. 8, Williamstown, into custody and transported him to the Dauphin County Judicial Center for arraignment, police said in a public information release report.
McCready was charged with felonies, including multiple counts of rape, unlawful contact with a minor, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint and corruption of minors. They also charged him with a misdemeanor, indecent assault, police said.
McCready will face a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Rebecca J. Margerum, Elizabethville, police said.
The incidents occurred in November 2014 in the 100 block of East Market Street in Williamstown, Dauphin County, police said.
An investigation by state police at Lykens Criminal Investigation Unit revealed that the victim, a young woman who was 16 at the time, was forcibly held down, sexually assaulted and raped by McCready two times that month. The incidents occurred while she was babysitting his two young children at his residence, police said.
The victim, who the police did not name, was unaware that she had become pregnant as a result of the rape and reported the incident to police after she collapsed at school and was taken to an area hospital in March 2015, which revealed the pregnancy. The victim gave birth to a child in August 2015.
McCready did not cooperate with investigators and refuted the allegations made by the victim. He told investigators that he had nothing to do with the victim’s child and refused to provide his DNA, police said.
A search warrant was conducted to seize the accused’s DNA in January. The DNA samples from the accused, the victim and the victim’s child were tested at a forensic laboratory which revealed, beyond any doubt, that the accused is the biological father of the victim’s child, police said.
The Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office Child Abuse Protection Unit was advised of the incident and authorized police to criminally charge McCready in this case, police said.