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Lee Kaplan, Pennsylvania man accused of receiving teen girl as gift charged with sexually abusing her and five of her sisters

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption">Lee Kaplan&comma; was charged Monday with 15 additional counts of statutory sexual assault&comma; the rape of children and related charges<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"ra-headline"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0101&semi;">Pennsylvania man accused of receiving teen girl as gift charged with sexually abusing all sisters aged 8 &&num;8211&semi; 18 years<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0101&semi;">Prosecutors announced 15 new charges of sex abuse and rape against Kaplan<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"title"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0101&semi;">Cops rescued 12 girls&comma; aged 6 months-18 years&comma; found living in Pa&period; home with h<&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0101&semi;">omeowner&comma; Lee Kaplan&comma; 51&comma; who claimed the 18-year-old was &OpenCurlyQuote;Gifted’ to him by her parents when she was 14<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"title"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f0202&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0101&semi;">The 18 year old&comma;<&sol;span> had babies with Kaplan at age 14 and 17<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"title"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f0202&semi;">Teen’s parents&comma; Daniel Stoltzfus&comma; 43&comma; and Savilla Stoltzfus&comma; 42&comma; admitted having &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;gifted” their daughter to Kaplan after researching legality on internet&comma; because he &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;saved them from financial ruin”<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"title"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f0202&semi;">The couple alo gifted their five other daughters to go live in Kaplan&&num;8217&semi;s house &&num;8211&semi; aged 17&comma; 15&comma; 13&comma;  10 with the youngest victim being an 8-year-old girl<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"title"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f0202&semi;">Investigators say Lee Kaplan made all six girls believe they were his wives and he was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a religious cult-like figure to whom they should submit their will&comma;” he sexually molested all the girls&comma; including the 8-year-old girl who said Kaplan had violated her anally<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"title"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f0202&semi;">Daniel Stoltzfus and his wife Savilla&comma; were earlier charged with conspiracy to commit statutory sexual assault and children endangerment&comma; endangering the welfare of a child&period; <&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"title"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f0202&semi;">The children were placed in protective custody and the 18 year-old&&num;8217&semi;s were parents held&comma; bail set at &dollar;1 million each<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"title"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f0202&semi;"><strong>Initially charged with statutory sexual assault&comma; aggravated indecent assault and other offenses&comma; Kaplan has been jailed since police found the 12 teen girls in his Feasterville home in June <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;808080&semi;"><em><strong>Can the authorities in PA please establish how Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus knowingly  pimped out their 10 underage daughters to a single middle aged pedophile&comma; how much leaverage Kaplan had on the couple and how come this crime went unnoticed for over 8 years<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-91898" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;lee-kplan-savilla-and-daniel-stoltzfus&period;png" alt&equals;"Lee Kplan-Savilla and Daniel Stoltzfus&period;png" width&equals;"675" height&equals;"373" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">&NewLine;<h6><strong>The face of evil and recklessness&colon; Savilla &lpar;center&rpar; and Daniel  Stolzfus &lpar;right&rpar;&comma; husband and wife&comma; hung out their young daughters &&num;8216&semi;to dry&&num;8217&semi; in the hands of a pervert for financial gains&period; 51-year-old Lee Kaplan &lpar;left&rpar; molested 6 of the 10 under-aged girls left in his care&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Last June&comma; police rescued 12 girls&comma; aged 6 months-18 years&comma; from the home of a middle aged Pennsylvania man&comma; who had been accused of abusing one of the teenage girls&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lee Kaplan allegedly&comma; fathered two kids with the eldest of the girls&comma; an 18-year-old whom he claimed had been<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;19&sol;police-arrest-51-year-old-lee-kaplan-claims-teen-gifted-to-him-by-parents-12-girls-aged-6-months-18-years-living-in-pa-home-rescued&sol;"> gifted to him by her parents <&sol;a>at the age of 12&comma; as settlement for business debts&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Of the 12 girls rescued from the home&comma; 10 were sisters and an infant and a 3-year-old belonged to the oldest woman&comma; now 18&comma; fathered by Kaplan &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At the time of his arrest&comma; The eldest girl told investigators her parents left her with Kaplan to save themselves from &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;financial ruin” upon leaving the Amish community when she was 14&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-91900" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;lee-kaplan-and-daniel-stoltzfus&period;png" alt&equals;"Lee Kaplan and Daniel Stoltzfus&period;png" width&equals;"770" height&equals;"434" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong>The father charged with complicity in the sexual assault of his minor daughters&comma; Daniel  Stolzfus &lpar;middle in yellow&rpar; and convicted child molester&comma; 51-year-old Lee Kaplan &lpar;right in yellow&rpar;&comma; led into court for arraignment by deputies<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Her version of events was confirmed by her parents Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus&comma; who themselves were charged with child endangerment&period; The couple claim they turned all their 10 children over to live in Kaplan’s home for the last three to four years&comma; after they lost their farm&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While Kaplan and the Stoltzfus husband and wife remain jailed&comma; new findings in the investigations revealed that 51-year-old  Kaplan  sexually abused six of the sisters&comma; prosecutors said&comma; Monday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police allege that the molestation of the youngsters began when the youngest was 6 years&comma; &period; The charges detail various acts Kaplan allegedly performed on the girls&comma; including vaginal and anal rape&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-91902" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;savilla-stoltzfus2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Savilla Stoltzfus2&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"978" &sol;><strong>Savilla Stoltzfus makes her court appearance<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>According to prosecutors&comma; Kaplan made all six abused girls believe they were his wives and he was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a religious cult-like figure to whom they should submit their will&comma;”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;philly&period;com&sol;philly&sol;news&sol;20161101&lowbar;DA&lowbar;&lowbar;Kaplan&lowbar;sexually&lowbar;abused&lowbar;6&lowbar;girls&lowbar;living&lowbar;with&lowbar;him&lowbar;in&lowbar;Bucks&lowbar;home&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Philadelphia Inquirer<&sol;a>&comma; reports that the Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub&comma; announced 15 new charges of sex abuse and rape against Kaplan&comma; who has been jailed since police <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;19&sol;police-arrest-51-year-old-lee-kaplan-claims-teen-gifted-to-him-by-parents-12-girls-aged-6-months-18-years-living-in-pa-home-rescued&sol;">found the 12 girls in his Feasterville home<&sol;a>&comma; in June&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;To unearth the facts investigators needed to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;gain the trust” of the girls and the past four months&comma; to learn the extent of Kaplan’s crimes&comma; Weintraub said&period; Contradicting the earlier statement of the victims immediately after the discovery&comma; when the sisters told authorities they had not been abused by their benefactor&period; At that point they were taken to a safe house in Lancaster County&comma; by child-protection authorities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;daniel-stoltzfus3&period;png&quest;w&equals;564&amp&semi;h&equals;765" alt&equals;"daniel Stoltzfus3&period;png" width&equals;"316" height&equals;"428" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Daniel Stoltzfus&comma; placed his 10 daughters in harm&&num;8217&semi;s way with a pedophile&comma;for financial gains&period;  Six of the underaged girls were molested by the 51 year old man &period; His now charged with Child endangerment&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mr&period; Kaplan represented himself to the girls as a prophet from God&comma;” Weintraub said at a news conference&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Now comes the time for Mr&period; Kaplan to be held accountable to the laws of mankind and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;So far&comma; prosecutors are not seeking additional charges against the girls&&num;8217&semi; parents&comma; who investigators said facilitated the debacle by handing their eldest daughter over to Kaplan&&num;8217&semi;s care in return for his financial help&period; Daniel Stoltzfus&comma; earlier charged with conspiracy to commit statutory commit statutory sexual assault and children endangerment and his wife Savilla  who was charged with endangering the welfare of a child remain behind bars as of Monday&comma; with the bail set at &dollar;1 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module v">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-91943" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;lee-kaplan2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Lee Kaplan2&period;jpg" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"576" &sol;>Lee Kaplan allegedly groomed the children for a long time for a very explicit and horrible purpose&comma; prosecutors said&comma; Monday<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Investigators said Kaplan became a business partner with Daniel Stoltzfus and a friend of the family after the couple left the Amish church&period;  According to court records&comma; the oldest victim told investigators&comma; Kaplan began preying on her when at age 10 in a bedroom of her parent’s home&period; That’s when Kaplan allegedly first invited her to sleep in his bed where he would be naked and touch himself&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He began having sex with her when she turned 12&comma; according to the arrest affidavit&period; She moved into Kaplan’s home 20 miles outside Philadelphia&comma; when she was 14&comma; and they had two children by the time she turned 18&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;lee-kaplan-home2&period;png&quest;w&equals;620" alt&equals;"lee kaplan home2&period;png" &sol;>Lee Kaplan&&num;8217&semi;s home in Feasterville&comma; Pa&period; where the 10 underage sisters were groomed and assaulted&comma; with the consent of their parents&period; The oldest had 2 babies for Kaplan when she was aged 14 and 17<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Kaplan would have &OpenCurlyQuote;dreams’ about them becoming his wives and Kaplan stated that this was what God wanted&comma;” the second-oldest daughter told investigators&comma; according to the affidavit&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Now 17&comma; she consummated her &&num;8216&semi;marriage&&num;8217&semi; with Kaplan when she turned 14 years old&period; The third sister&comma; now 15&comma; started having sex with child molester when she turned 11 years old&period; The serial pedophile next turned his attention to the fourth sister &comma; now 13&comma; when she turned 10&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The fifth sister&comma; now 10 years old&comma; did not describe rape but told investigators he sexually assaulted her&period; The sixth sister&comma; an 8-year-old girl&comma; said he had violated her anally&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;screenshot-from-2016-06-19-15-26-19&period;png&quest;w&equals;469&amp&semi;h&equals;624" alt&equals;"Screenshot from 2016-06-19 15-26-19&period;png" width&equals;"424" height&equals;"564" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Mother-of-10 Savilla Stoltzfus went along with her husband Daniel  in the &&num;8216&semi;pimping game&&num;8217&semi;&period; She remains jailed on child endangerment charges Monday <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Authorities found four other sisters in Kaplan&&num;8217&semi;s home when they arrested him&period; Investigators said he fathered children aged 3 and 1 with the oldest daughter&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Kaplan faced charges of statutory rape after his arrest&period; A judge charged him Monday with statutory sexual assault&comma; the rape of children and related charges and set his bail on the new charges at &dollar;1 million&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Kaplan acted as the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;prime mover” in taking the girls as his wives&comma; but &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;none of this would&&num;8217&semi;ve happened without the parents&&num;8217&semi; acquiescence and support&comma;” Weintraub said&comma; noting that the girls were together and safe&comma; at an undisclosed location&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Although they&&num;8217&semi;re being incredibly brave&comma; they probably still share some feelings for this man because he has had them at his beck and call over many&comma; many years&comma;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It saddens me and it sickens me&period; This man obviously groomed these children for a long time for a very explicit and horrible purpose&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The victims referred to Kaplan as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lave” and told authorities they all believed they were his wives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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