Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Police Investigate Possible Serial Child Molester

Johnstown Police are investigating a man who they say is a serial child molester. Police say he has admitted to assaulting numerous children in the Johnstown area.

Police are talking to three potential victims, but they told WJAC that a lot more could be out there.

According to police, a home on Somerset Street is where 33-year-old Mark Kinkead raped a male family member from 1990 to 1996. The family member was 8 years old when the assault allegedly started.

Police said some of the rapes took place at the church next door as well.
Later, two foster children came to live in the home and they are now claiming that Kinkead molested them from 1999 to 2000. The two brothers were 8 and 12 at the time.

Police said Kinkead's mother fostered several other children over the years. It's not known if any of them were also assaulted.

Investigators first learned about this case when Kinkead admitted to a counselor that he sexually assaulted numerous kids around the area for years, and that he wanted to take responsibility and stop himself from doing it again.

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