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Man charged with raping woman, girl

A man wanted on a rape of a child and related charges was apprehended in Carbon County on Wednesday.

State police at Lehighton said Jonathan Spyros Hortis, 26, of Lehighton, was arrested without incident about 8:10 a.m. behind the Weissport House in Weissport.He was arraigned before District Judge Edward Lewis of Jim Thorpe and taken to the county prison in Nesquehoning after failing to post $200,000 percentage bail.Hortis is also facing charges of aggravated indecent assault, sexual assault, indecent assault forcible compulsion, terroristic threats, and harassment.A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. April 1 before Lewis.According to an affidavit filed by trooper Joseph Campbell of the Pennsylvania State Police Lehighton barracks.On Aug. 4, the victims arrived at the Lehighton barracks to report the incident.The first incident of abuse occurred at around the time when the girl was between the ages of 3 and 4 years old and was living in a Lehighton apartment.The most recent occurrence of abuse was between July 7-12, 2014.That crime occurred in Weissport, as well as an apartment within Lehighton, several years prior to the report of the next incident, according to police documents.In that incident, an adult female was sexually assaulted on July 19, according to that affidavit.The woman told police Hortis was lying on her bed.She said she did not know how Hortis got into her home, because she thought that she had locked all of the doors.When she walked into her room, he demanded that he wanted to have sex with her, and the victim said no.Hortis then started to get angry, and he poured the victim's beer on the back of her head and pinned the victim's wrist down to the bed, and he held her down against her will, according to police.Hortis then became increasingly physical and more violent, and started punching the victim with hands and fists.The victim sustained bruises to her wrists and on her forehead, as well as near her ears as a result.Hortis also broke a mirror within her bedroom during the assault.The victim said that on Aug. 4, Hortis had approached her on two occasions, once in Weissport, and another in Lehighton, while she was walking with two children.Hortis threatened the victim, "If you go to the cops I will gut all three of you like fish!"The victim said Hortis had a knife when he made the threats on Bankway Street in Lehighton.

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