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Carbon man jailed again on rape charges

A Lansford man accused in a 2006 rape is back behind bars in Schuylkill County, exactly eight years after he is believed to have raped a girl.

Judge Charles Miller on Dec. 23 dissolved Clair A. Borger's bench warrant and sent him to prison on $25,000 straight cash bail.Details of why there was a bench warrant on Borger were unavailable.Borger, 38, was charged by Tamaqua police on Oct. 28, 2008, with forcible rape, forcible indecent assault, forcible indecent assault of a person under 16 years old; and statutory sexual assault, all felonies. He was also charged with corruption of minors, indecent exposure, indecent assault by forcible compulsion, and related charges.The charges all stem from a Dec. 23, 2006, incident, according to court testimony and documents. Borger, then 32, raped the girl between Dec. 23, 2006, and Jan. 8, 2007.His DNA was found in a sample recovered from the girl during a medical examination.Borger pleaded guilty on March 19, 2009, to three counts of statutory sexual assault; corruption of minors; indecent exposure, and indecent assault of a person less than 16 years old.Charges of forcible rape, sexual assault, indecent assault by compulsion, indecent assault of a person under age 16, and indecent assault without consent were dropped.He was sentenced to six months to up to five years in prison, followed by probation.