{"id":189292,"date":"2026-05-11T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189292\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:05:07","slug":"scranton-man-accused-of-sexually-abusing-threatening-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189292\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man accused of sexually abusing, threatening, girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A 57-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> man sexually abused a young girl for years and threatened to murder her family if she ever talked, city police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eliceo Ortega-Davila was brought before a judge Saturday. arraigned on counts including child rape, aggravated indecent assault and terroristic threats remanded to the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $200,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, now 13, kept silent for years out of fear of his threat to harm her family, according to a criminal complaint filed by city police. She came forward earlier this month and spoke with a forensic interviewer at the Children&#8217;s Advocacy Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ortega-Davila remained locked up Monday. He&#8217;s due back in court for a preliminary hearing tentatively scheduled May 22, court records show. It was unclear if he has an attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A 57-year-old Scranton man sexually abused a young girl for years and threatened to murder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-189292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189292","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=189292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}