A 50-year-old man is facing more than 2,500 counts of child sex abuse for incidents involving two girls over a five-year period in Jefferson County.
State police say John DeFluri of Montgomery in Lycoming County raped the girls between January of 2010 and December of 2015 at a number of homes in Big Run and Punxsutawney. The girls were between the ages of 7 and 12 at the time, and are now 14.
DeFluri was arrested Tuesday in Tioga County and charged with rape of a child, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, corruption of minors and unlawful contact with minors.
He is in Tioga County Jail, awaiting extradition to Jefferson County.