PA - A Lancaster City man accused of felony sex abuse has been acquitted, but he remains in jail, for over 1 year?

Original Article

09/25/2012

By Chris Papst

A Lancaster City man accused of felony sex abuse has been acquitted, but he remains in jail.

Lancaster Online is reporting that last year this suspect was charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. But even though he was acquitted, he’s not free quite yet.

37-year-old [name withheld] has been in the Lancaster County Prison since September of last year.

The charges he was acquitted of could have sent him to jail for a very long time. But after just two hours of deliberation, a jury came back and found him not guilty on all counts.

He maintained though the trial that he was innocent. According to Lancaster Online, [name withheld]’s wife has now filed for a PFA protection from abuse order.

But [name withheld] violated it by calling her. Now he must have a hearing on that violation, which will be in October.

So even though [name withheld] was found not guilty is court, he still remains in jail on $10,000 bail.