{"id":122666,"date":"2026-02-25T02:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122666\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:38:07","slug":"part-time-delaware-county-pennsylvania-police-officer-charged-with-rape-court-docs-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122666\/","title":{"rendered":"Part-time Delaware County, Pennsylvania, police officer charged with rape, court docs show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Morton Borough, Pennsylvania, part-time police officer was charged with raping a minor, according to a criminal docket sheet Tuesday. Multiple sources close to the investigation said the victim is a relative.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Collier was charged with several offenses, including rape of a child, involuntary sexual intercourse with a child, incest of a minor, endangering welfare of children, indecent assault and more, a docket sheet shows. He&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mortonpolice.com\/index.php\/about\/police-personnel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">listed as an officer on Morton&#8217;s website<\/a>. The charges were filed Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Collier is awaiting a preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia reached out to Morton Borough officials, including the police chief, for comment, but we&#8217;ve yet to hear back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Morton Borough, Pennsylvania, part-time police officer was charged with raping a minor, according to a criminal docket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[212,28,30,29,335],"class_list":["post-122666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-delaware-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-rape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}