A Northampton man has been charged with allegedly raping a woman multiple times nearly two decades ago when she was a child.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Detective Lee Marzen of the Jim Thorpe Police Department in the case against Zachery Czankner:

Marzen received a complaint from a woman who reported being sexually assaulted by a relative, Czankner, 31, also known as Zachery Confer.

The woman stated the assaults took place from 2005 to 2009 when she was between 6 and 10 years old.

She said that she recalls the assaults started around the time her family took Czankner on vacation out of the country when he was around 12 years old.

The woman stated she was assaulted in two different locations in Jim Thorpe, and that Czankner had assaulted her at both his parents’ home as well as her parents’ home.

She stated she had been assaulted over 20 times in each location, and that sometimes the parents were home and sometimes they weren’t home when the assaults took place.

Czanker faces charges on two counts each of rape — forcible compulsion, indecent deviate sexual intercourse — forcible compulsion, statutory sexual assault, sexual assault and indecent exposure.

He was arraigned before District Judge William J. Kissner of Palmerton and is free on $100,000 unsecured bail and waived charges to the Carbon County Court of Common Pleas.