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<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Harvey Joseph Fountain has been arrested on 100 counts of child rape <br><br>Fountain was being held Tuesday with bail set at $1 million <br> <br>Fountain, of Pineville, Louisiana was arrested April 9 <br> <br>Eight days earlier, a now-adult accuser told authorities Fountain raped him or her when the accuser was a child <br><br>Assaults alleged to have happened from around the early 1970s until the early 1980s<br><br>In each case, the child was under 13 </h4>



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<ul class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>Harvey Joseph Fountain, 71, was being held Tuesday with bail set at $1 million after he was</strong> <strong>charged with 100 counts of 1st-degree rape from allegations dating back 40 years</strong><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-man-charged-with-100-counts-of-1st-degree-rape-from-allegations-dating-back-40-years"><strong>s</strong></a></li></ul>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.<br>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&#8217;s Office said.<br>Investigators gathered evidence supporting that allegation, along with accusations that Fountain raped other children, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<br>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. <br>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. <br>Sheriff&#8217;s Lt. Stephen Phillips said.Phillips said he cannot yet disclose how many children are alleged to have been raped. The investigation &#8220;is still ongoing, and more arrests are possible,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said in a news release.<br>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&#8217;s office said. </p>

71-year-old Louisiana man arrested on 100 counts of child rape – Harvey Joseph Fountain held, bail set at $1M on a century of sexual assaults dating back 40 years
