Harvey Joseph Fountain has been arrested on 100 counts of child rape

Fountain was being held Tuesday with bail set at $1 million

Fountain, of Pineville, Louisiana was arrested April 9

Eight days earlier, a now-adult accuser told authorities Fountain raped him or her when the accuser was a child

Assaults alleged to have happened from around the early 1970s until the early 1980s

In each case, the child was under 13

• Harvey Joseph Fountain, 71, was being held Tuesday with bail set at $1 million after he was charged with 100 counts of 1st-degree rape from allegations dating back 40 yearss

A 71-year-old central Louisiana man has been arrested on 100 preliminary counts of first-degree rape, accused of sexually assaulting children in and around his hometown decades ago, authorities said.
Harvey Joseph Fountain, of Pineville, was arrested April 9, eight days after an now-adult accuser told authorities that Fountain raped him or her when the accuser was a child, the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office said.
Investigators gathered evidence supporting that allegation, along with accusations that Fountain raped other children, the sheriff’s office said.
The rapes are alleged to have happened from around the early 1970s until the early 1980s, and in each case, the child was under 13.
Fountain was arrested on April on 50 counts of first-degree rape. Days later, additional victims were identified – the sheriff’s office hasn’t said how many – and the still-jailed Fountain was charged with an additional 50 counts of first-degree rape.
Sheriff’s Lt. Stephen Phillips said.Phillips said he cannot yet disclose how many children are alleged to have been raped. The investigation “is still ongoing, and more arrests are possible,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
The rapes are alleged to have happened in places where Fountain lived and frequented in the area of Pineville, a city roughly a 115-mile drive northwest of Baton Rouge, Phillips said.Fountain was being held Tuesday morning in the Rapides Parish Detention Center with bail set at $1 million, the county clerk’s office said.