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MEAGEN FINNERTY | Website Producer
An Amish bishop in Dauphin County is facing charges after being accused of failing to report two cases of alleged sexual abuse of children.
Christ M. Stoltfus, 69, is charged with two misdemeanor counts of failure to report, according to court documents.
Clergymen are legally required to report suspected child abuse.
A church member told Stoltfus, of Elizabethville, about two cases both involving Daniel Ray Fisher, 44, that occurred in 2011. Stoltfus reportedly told state police that he’d been told the abuse “wasn’t really that bad.”
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