Brent Getz: Weissport [Pennsylvania] fires police chief accused in sex assault case

Brent R. Getz (left) & Gregory E. Wagner (right)​

Police chief and friend accused of raping young girl over the course of seven years

A Carbon County police chief and his friend have been arrested for raping the same young girl over a seven year span. The Pennsylvania Attorney General just announced the charges Wednesday. According to CBS Philadelphia, Weissport Police Chief Brent Getz and his friend Gregory Wagner committed the sexual assault. The victim apparently told a substitute teacher about how Wagner was sexually assaulting her in 2012. The teacher reproted it, but no charges were field. The case was reopened in 2018 when the victim notified a different police department that Getz had raped her as well. The victim was between the ...

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Carbon County police chief charged with rape of a child

The girl was a fifth-grader at Lehighton Area Middle School in May 2012 when she told a substitute teacher that she had been raped, prompting an investigation by Franklin Township police and Carbon County’s Children and Youth Services. The 11-year-old girl said she knew her attacker, identifying him to investigators as Gregory E. Wagner, who was 21 at the time, court records show. The girl told a forensic interviewer that for years, since she was 4, she was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by Wagner, and a child sexual assault nurse examiner found signs that were “consistent with sexual abuse,” ...

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Two men — including Carbon County police chief — accused of child rape, according to AG Josh Shapiro

Attorney General Shapiro today announced the arrests of two Carbon County men for child rape. Weissport Chief of Police Brent Getz, 27, and Gregory Wagner, 28, both of Lehighton, were charged Tuesday with Rape of Child, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse with a Child, Aggravated Indecent Assault of Child, and several related charges, Shapiro’s office announced in a press release. The investigation began in May 2012, when the victim, who was 12 years old at the time, reported to a substitute teacher that Wagner was sexually assaulting her. Wagner was 22 at the time, according to Shapiro. The victim’s teacher reported ...

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Carbon County police chief accused of repeatedly raping girl

A police chief in Carbon County has been arrested and charged with repeatedly raping a girl, joining in on assaults that began when the girl was 4 years old. “The defendants terrorized this young victim by assaulting her hundreds of times over seven years,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a news release. “My office will listen to survivors and prosecute anyone who sexually abuses children to the fullest extent of the law we are able — no matter how much time has passed." Weissport Borough police Chief Brent Getz, 27, and Gregory Edward Wagner Jr., 28, both of Lehighton, ...

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Pennsylvania Police Chief, His Friend Accused Of Raping Young Girl Over 7 Years

A police chief from Carbon County and his friend are accused of raping a young girl over the span of seven years. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Wednesday that Weissport Police Chief Brent Getz is one of two men charged with sexually assaulting a girl. The investigation into the 27-year-old Getz, and his friend, 28-year-old Gregory Wagner, began in May 2012, when the then 12-year-old victim reported to a substitute teacher that Wagner was sexually assaulting her. The teacher reported it to the Franklin Township Police Department, but no charges were filed at the time. According to officials, a ...

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Carbon County police chief charged with rape of a child

Brent R. Getz, the police chief from the Carbon County borough of Weissport, was charged Wednesday with repeatedly raping a girl over several years, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced. Getz, 27, was charged along with his friend Gregory Wagner, 28, with rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of child and several related charges. Both men were arraigned by District Judge William Kissner and sent to Carbon County Prison under $250,000 bail each. The investigation began in 2012 when the 12-year-old girl told a substitute teacher that Wagner was sexually assaulting her. The ...

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Weissport police chief arrested on child rape charges

Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced the arrests of two Carbon County men for child rape. Weissport Chief of Police Brent Getz, 27, and Gregory Wagner, 28, both of Lehighton, Pa., were charged on Tuesday with rape of child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of child, and several related charges. This investigation began in May 2012 when the victim, then 12 years old, reported to a substitute teacher that Gregory Wagner, then 22-years-old, was sexually assaulting her. The teacher reported it to the Franklin Township Police Department and, following an investigation, no charges were filed. ...

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Weissport police chief charged with rape of a child

Brent R. Getz, the police chief from the Carbon County borough of Weissport, was charged Wednesday with repeatedly raping a girl over several years, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced. Getz, 27, was charged along with his friend Gregory Wagner, 28, with rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of child and several related charges. Both men were arraigned by District Judge William Kissner and sent to Carbon County Prison under $250,000 bail each. The investigation began in 2012 when the 12-year-old girl told a substitute teacher that Wagner was sexually assaulting her. The ...

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Pennsylvania Police Chief Charged in Child Rape Case

A case was opened in 2012, when a 12-year-old girl in Pennsylvania told her substitute teacher that a man had sexually assaulted her for years, and the teacher then told the police, according to a statement from the state attorney general’s office. But seven more years passed before anyone was criminally charged — and one of the men who the girl said had abused her became a police chief. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania attorney general, Josh Shapiro, announced that Gregory Wagner, 28, and Brent Getz, 27, had been arrested on several charges, including child rape and aggravated indecent assault. Both ...

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Police Chief ‘raped girl, 4, hundreds of times with his friend for seven years’

A police chief allegedly raped and ‘terrorized’ a young girl hundreds of times from when she was just four-years-old. Weissport, Pennsylvania Police Chief Brent Getz, 27, was one of two men charged Tuesday for sexually assaulting the young girl over a seven year period. Authorities began investigating in May 2012 after the victim, who was 12 at the time, told a teacher that Getz and his friend Gregory Wagner, 28, had been raping her for most of her life. The girl said that from age 4 to eleven, she was raped by the pair, who made her watched pornography that ...

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Pennsylvania Police Chief Charged in Child Rape Case

A case was opened in 2012, when a 12-year-old girl in Pennsylvania told her substitute teacher that a man had sexually assaulted her for years, and the teacher then told the police, according to a statement from the state attorney general’s office. But seven more years passed before anyone was criminally charged — and one of the men who the girl said had abused her became a police chief. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania attorney general, Josh Shapiro, announced that Gregory Wagner, 28, and Brent Getz, 27, had been arrested on several charges, including child rape and aggravated indecent assault. Both ...

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Weissport officials didn't know police chief was accused of child rape, never would have hired him, solicitor says

When Weissport Borough Council voted to bring Brent Getz on board as police chief in February, officials were unaware of the active investigation into allegations he had raped a child repeatedly over a seven-year period, the borough’s solicitor said Thursday. “Borough council was not aware of any pending investigation of Mr. Getz,” Weissport solicitor Gregory Mousseau said from his office in Jim Thorpe. “If council was made aware of it, it would not have taken the action as it did.” Weissport Borough Council meets Monday, and Mousseau said that will be the first opportunity for the board to take action ...

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A Pennsylvania police chief and friend accused of sexually abusing girl for years

A Pennsylvania police chief and his friend were arrested for allegedly sexual abusing a young girl over the course of at least seven years, according to the state's attorney general. Weissport Chief of Police Brent Getz, 27, and Gregory Wagner, 28, allegedly raped a girl from the time she was 4 until she was 11 years old, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a press release Wednesday. Getz and Wagner were charged Tuesday with rape of a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child and other related charges. Police investigated the case multiple times since 2012 and pressed charges ...

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Pa. Police Chief Allegedly Raped Child Hundreds of Times Over 7 Years, Along with Friend

A small-town Pennsylvania police chief and his friend are accused of raping a child over a seven year period starting when the alleged victim was 4 years old. A statement from Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro confirms the two Lehighton men — Brent Getz, the 27-year-old Chief of the Weissport Police Department, and friend Gregory Wagner, 28 — were arrested Tuesday. Both are accused of raping the same child hundreds of times over a seven-year period. Getz and Wagner remain in jail without bond after being charged with rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child and ...

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Weissport fires police chief accused in sex assault case

Weissport Council wasted no time Monday in firing the 27-year-old police chief charged last week in a child rape case in Carbon County. Weissport solicitor Gregory Mousseau said council voted unanimously Monday night to fire Brent Getz. It was the first time officials met since Getz was arrested on charges of rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, indecent assault and three counts of criminal conspiracy. Also charged in the case was Gregory Wagner, 28, of Lehighton. Wagner faces the same charges as Getz in addition to simple assault and ...

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Pennsylvania Police Chief Charged With Raping Child Fired In Unanimous Council Vote

The Carbon County police chief charged with raping a child is out of a job. Weissport council fired Brent Getz Tuesday. The vote was unanimous. Getz, 27, and his friend, 28-year-old Gregory Wagner, are accused of assaulting the child over a seven-year period when the two were teenagers. The investigation into Getz and Wagner began in May 2012, when the then 12-year-old victim reported to a substitute teacher that Wagner was sexually assaulting her. The teacher reported it to the Franklin Township Police Department, but no charges were filed at the time. According to officials, a Franklin Township officer revisited ...

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There may be more victims of police chief, friend accused of child rape, AG warns

Pennsylvania’s attorney general said he believes there are more victims of the now-former Carbon County police chief and his friend who are each accused of child rape. Attorney General Josh Shapiro is encouraging any additional accusers to come forward. “This investigation is ongoing, and my office believes there may be other victims,” Shapiro said in a statement Wednesday. “We encourage anyone with information about this case to call a special Carbon County Sexual Abuse hotline that my office has set up at 267-768-3957. You don’t have to be afraid to come forward -- we want to hear from you.” Brent ...

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Brent R. Getz, former Carbon County police chief​

Hearing scheduled for former Carbon County police chief, his friend, both charged with raping girl

As Carbon County authorities investigated child rape allegations against one man in 2012, it wasn’t until six years later they were made aware that the man’s friend, Brent R. Getz, who would later become police chief of the borough of Weissport, was also allegedly raping the same victim, an agent with the state attorney general’s office testified Monday. The accuser said she was raped “several times each month” by Getz and his friend Gregory Wagner from the time she was 4 years old until just before she turned 12, the day she told a substitute teacher in Lehighton in May ...

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Man pleads guilty to raping girl for seven years in Carbon County case that also led to charges against former Weissport police chief

A Lehighton man is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty Monday to repeatedly raping a grade-schooler over seven years in a case that led to similar charges against a Carbon County police chief. Gregory Wagner, 30, of Lehighton, pleaded guilty in federal court in Harrisburg to raping and sexually exploiting the girl from 2005, when she was 4, to 2012, when she was 11, the state attorney general’s office said. Meanwhile, the state attorney general’s office on Tuesday reported no update in the case of Getz’s friend, former Weissport police Chief Brent Getz, 29, of Lehighton, who is facing similar charges ...

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Former police chief on trial for sexual assault of young girl

Aformer police chief went on trial Tuesday in Carbon County court on charges he raped and sexually assaulted a young girl. Brent Getz, 31, of Lehighton, is facing charges of rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child and indecent assault of a child. He served at one time as chief of police in Weissport. For almost three hours the victim of the alleged assaults testified that she was repeatedly raped by a relative, Gregory Wagner Jr., 30, of Lehighton, and Getz. In November 2020, Wagner admitted in the county court ...

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Former Pa. police chief found guilty of repeatedly raping girl

A former Pennsylvania police chief is behind bars after being found guilty of repeatedly raping a girl, joining in on sexual assaults that began when the girl was 4 years old. Brent Getz and his friend Gregory Wagner Jr., both of Lehighton, were arrested and charged in 2019, following an investigation that began in 2012 when the victim disclosed the abuse to a teacher. At the time of his arrest, Getz was the Weissport Borough police chief; he has since been fired. Wagner previously pleaded guilty to rape of a child and sexual exploitation of children, and as part of ...

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