Jury Now Seated For Man Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 6 Sisters
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (CBS) -- Opening statements will begin Wednesday morning in the case of a Bucks County man accused of child rape and other serious offenses after 11 Amish women were found in his Feasterville home.
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It took attorneys all day to find 12 jurors and 4 alternates, in a pool of 85 people. 4 women and 8 men will hear the case against 52-year-old Lee Kaplan.
Kaplan is accused of rape of a child and other charges after 11 girls were found living in his Feasterville home last June.
The girls were from a Amish family from Lancaster county, "gifted" prosecutors say, after Kaplan helped the family financially.
Initial charges were filed when prosecutors learned the two youngest children in the home were fathered by Kaplan with the oldest girl, conceived when that girl was 14.
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Additional charges were filed against Kaplan last fall, when prosecutors announced other girls from the home had come forward to say Kaplan had also molested them.
The girls' mother and father pleaded guilty or no contest to child endangerment earlier this year and are expected to testify.
