LOWER FREDERICK TWP., Pa. (WPVI) -- Authorities say a former maintenance worker at a children's camp in suburban Philadelphia has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a young girl six years ago.
Forty-seven-year-old David Allen Fichter of Schwenksville is charged in Montgomery County with multiple counts of child rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and other charges.
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Prosecutors and Lower Frederick Township police say he was a maintenance worker at Camp Hope for Kids when they allege he isolated and sexually abused a 6-year-old girl at the camp and at a nearby bar.
Authorities said Fichter fled into the woods to evade arrest Aug. 12 but ultimately surrendered. He is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail; the county public defender's office said no attorney had yet been assigned who could offer comment on the charges.
David Fichter