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Elizabethtown man charged in another sex assault
Intelligencer Journal
Lancaster New Era
Nov 20, 2009 21:21 EST
Elizabethtown
By JANET KELLEY, Staff Writer

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Four years ago, Ricky Kenneth Goodin was charged with sexually assaulting a young girl.

He pleaded guilty, was placed on probation and registered as a sex offender under Megan's Law rules.

Now, Goodin has been arrested again, police said, for allegedly sexually assaulting another little girl — his first victim's younger sister.

Goodin, 45, of 1465 Turnpike Road, Elizabethtown, was charged by police recently with aggravated indecent assault of a child, indecent assault and corruption of minors.

In the arrest warrant affidavit, filed late last month, the child gave Elizabethtown police Detective Clair Martin Jr. a detailed account of the "numerous" assaults over the years.

Between 2001 and 2005, the girl told police, Goodin repeatedly sexually assaulted her, beginning when she was 5.

And, she told Martin, the incidents were similar to her sister's encounters with Goodin.

The charges were filed only recently, Martin explained, after the girl told her sister about the assaults.

Goodin, who was acquainted with the victims' family, is accused of sexually assaulting the child — as he did her sister — at various locations in Elizabethtown Borough, police said.

In the first case, according to court records, Goodin was charged with corruption of minors and two counts each of rape and indecent assault.

But the more serious charges were eventually dropped and Goodin pleaded guilty in 2006 to corruption of minors and indecent assault, according to court documents.

He was placed on probation and ordered to register as a sex offender under the state's Megan's Law requirements.

The first case came to light when a friend of the victim went to a school official and told her what she had read in the child's journal.

Those offenses, police said, took place at various times between 2003 and 2005.

Goodin, who police said is still on probation for the first offense, was released on bail pending a hearing.

jkelley@lnpnews.com


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QUOTE (toobad @ Nov 21 2009, 08:11 AM)
I dont understand... ?? why after the first little girl.. does this family still have contact with this scumbag...? and the judge who left this jerk-off on probation should feel real good about himself....


That was my first thought initially but if you look at the dates of the assaults they didn't - he was messing with both sisters during the same time period, the younger one just kept it a secret after it originally came out.
southernendmom
QUOTE (southernendmom @ Nov 21 2009, 10:06 AM)
That was my first thought initially but if you look at the dates of the assaults they didn't - he was messing with both sisters during the same time period, the younger one just kept it a secret after it originally came out.


which is odd......
why did the sister wait 5 years to come forward , especially when she could have come forward at the time he was convicted of molesting her sister.
justplainjoe
QUOTE (Wonder @ Nov 21 2009, 07:45 AM)
Don't ask me why people say, "an SUV", because I have not yet figured why that happens. It is not appropriate to say, "an vehicle"].


Think I can help you here, Wonder. Say the name of the letter, /S/. Since the first sound to be vocalized is actually a vowel sound (eh), an "an" precedes SUV. Similarly, one would say "an NC State quarterback" or "an M.D."
Pirate Jenny
QUOTE (Pirate Jenny @ Nov 21 2009, 11:50 AM)
Think I can help you here, Wonder. Say the name of the letter, /S/. Since the first sound to be vocalized is actually a vowel sound (eh), an "an" precedes SUV. Similarly, one would say "an NC State quarterback" or "an M.D."


Thank you, Jenny. I do appreciate that. No sarcasm.
Alexander
QUOTE (toobad @ Nov 21 2009, 08:11 AM)
I dont understand... ?? why after the first little girl.. does this family still have contact with this scumbag...? and the judge who left this jerk-off on probation should feel real good about himself....

Toobad, those were my first thoughts also. so, in cases like this if his bail is 25,000 does the molester only have to post 10%? If that is the case that makes me ill.
litlmo
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