A 23-year-old Warren man is facing more than a dozen charges for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl for several months – starting on the day his girlfriend gave birth to their baby.
Joseph Nowacki is jailed on $50,000 cash bail after being charged with rape and related offenses.
Court papers say that besides sexually abusing the girl for about eight months, Nowacki threatened the victim and her family, burned her with a lighter, kicked her in the head, almost ran her over by a four-wheeler and held a knife to her and threatened to use it on her. The girl says she remembers the first day he raped her because it was the day his girlfriend was in the hospital delivering their baby.
In the court papers, police say Nowacki owns a handgun and likes to intimidate other people by threatening them while waving the gun around. They say no one ever reports him for fear of retaliation.