Man accused of raping boy, 6

By Sara Ganim

BELLEFONTE — An Aaronsburg man is in jail on charges he raped a 6-year-old boy in the fall of 2006.

Steve Allen Foltz, of 5543 Penns Valley Pike, admitted to police that he touched the boy inappropriately one time at the Bellefonte home of the boy’s grandmother, state police at Rockview wrote in a criminal complaint.

Foltz also admitted that a sexual act and sexual touching happened between the

two while they were taking a shower together, but Foltz told police it was “by accident,” police

wrote.

“He related that it just kinda happened,” the criminal complaint said.

Police found out about the alleged assault in March 2008 when the boy told police that Foltz touched him twice “down where his underwear is,” court papers say.

Foltz was in court Wednesday for a scheduled preliminary hearing which was continued until next week.

His attorney, first assistant public defender Deb Lux asked that his $50,000 cash bail be reduced, but District Judge Carmine Prestia denied that request after prosecutor Yvette Willson cited a protection from abuse order filed against Foltz by the boy’s grandmother.

In that PFA, the grandmother says that Foltz threatened to kill her, the boy and his brother if the boy told anybody what happened.

The delay between when the incident was first reported and when Foltz was charged is attributed in the criminal complaint to the boy being at a counseling center in York for several months.

In February, a York County prosecutor, a forensic interviewer, and two state troopers again interviewed the boy after his grandmother told police he had more information.

Foltz was arrested after an April 8 interview with police in which he claimed everything was accidental, and each of the incidents lasted only for “a second,” court papers say.

He is charged with rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child and other assault-related charges.

Foltz was arrested in 2004 on loitering and prowling at night, and later pleaded guilty to a defiant trespass charge, and he has numerous protection from abuse violations.

Sara Ganim can be reached at 231-4616.