Romanian child adopted and sodomised for years: ZIUA

Romanian child adopted and sodomised for years

-- Pedophile US minister William Delos Peckenpaugh had "excellent references"

US citizen William Delos Peckenpaugh from Oregon is on trial. He abused sexually his adoptive son of Romanian origin. This was unveiled when a recording showing his deeds was discovered in the memory of the video camera which he returned to an electric device shop, informs Salem News.com from Oregon. Peckenpaugh is aged 37 and last week he was accused of having committed 6 first-degree sodomy acts, 2 first-degree sexual abuses and use of a child for sexual exposure.

The man has got no criminal record. He was arrested and is now in the Marion prison and he may not be set free on bail. The abused child is now 9 and was taken over by the Social Services and placed in a childcare institute.

The Marion County Sheriff Office started investigation in mid November, after a couple had bought a video camera from a shop and discovered in the memory a recording of the supposed sexual abuse. Marcela Dumitras, Head of the Child Protection Department in Buzau, stated William D. Peckenpaugh had excellent references when asking for adoption. " The person asking to adopt Daniel, a 4 - year old child abandoned by his parents at Childcare Institute no. 6 in Ramnicu Sarat, looked respectable. He was a minister at the Methodist Church in the locality. He was involved in several community activities. In his leisure time he used to participate in volunteer activities to the use of community and helped his brother and sisters with the children", Marcela Dumitras also said. Last week Romanian authorities claimed that they had received only positive reports on him from US authorities that were said to monitor the child's evolution. (G.D.)

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