PIKE COUNTY, PA — Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin announced charges against a former Pike County resident for Rape of a Child. Detectives from the District Attorney’s Office Criminal Investigation Division charged Ayden Storm McCabe, age 23, of Brookfield, Wisconsin with the charges of four counts of Rape of a Child, three counts of Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse with a Child, one count of Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse with a Child, four counts of Statutory Sexual Assault: 8-10 Years Older, one count of Statutory Sexual Assault: 8-11 Years Older, four counts of Indecent Assault Person Less than 13 Years of Age, one Count of Correction of Minors - Defendant Age 18 or Above, all felonies, and one count of Indecent Assault Person Less than 13 Years of Age, misdemeanor.

A person charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

According to the affidavit of probable cause supporting the charges, Detectives at the District Attorney’s Office obtained information from a Childline report. During the investigation, at an interview at Dickson House Children’s Advocacy Center, a minor child reported that McCabe sexually assaulted them over a number of years from when McCabe was aged 14-21. Detectives then identified an additional victim.

McCabe was arrested on the Pike County charges in Brookfield, Wisconsin with the assistance of the City of Brookfield Police Department. After obtaining a Governor’s Warrant to require McCabe’s extradition back to Pike County, detectives travelled to Wisconsin to extradite McCabe back to Pike County. Once back in Pike County McCabe was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Ashley Zimmerman. Judge Zimmerman set bail at $1,000,000.00 and McCabe is being held in the Pike County Correctional Facility pending a preliminary hearing on the charges.