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Assistant District Attorney Allison Christian of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit helped secure justice in a case involving a defendant accused of three stranger rapes that occurred in 2011, 2014, and 2015. The defendant, who was apprehended in 2019 after a CODIS identification linked his DNA to all three forensic kits, used a knife in one incident and a crowbar in another. The survivors testified at trial. He was found guilty by a jury and is scheduled for sentencing by the Hon. Anne Marie Coyle in January.

Assistant District Attorneys Kara Heininger & Eamon Kenny of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit helped secure justice in a case involving a defendant accused of sexually abusing his daughter. A jury found the defendant guilty of all charges. He will be sentenced by the Hon. Genece Brinkley in January.

For the Commonwealth highlights the important work our prosecutors are doing to help secure justice in specific cases brought by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Assistant District Attorney Maggie McDermott of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit helped secure justice in a case involving a defendant accused of sexually abusing his partner’s daughter for years. The defendant was found guilty of Rape and related charges by the Hon. Charles Ehrlich and is scheduled for sentencing in January.

The chart below generated by the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab highlights the number of incidents reported by the public to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from February 1 to July 31, 2021. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests made by PPD and incidents…