{"id":189615,"date":"2026-05-11T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189615\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:04:09","slug":"scranton-man-accused-of-sexually-abusing-threatening-girl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189615\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man accused of sexually abusing, threatening girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 57-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Scranton;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Scranton&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Scranton<\/a> man sexually abused a young girl for years and threatened to murder her family if she ever talked, city police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":"A 57-year-old Scranton man sexually abused a young girl for years and threatened to murder her family if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21702,84498,178,180,179,7654],"class_list":["post-189615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county-prison","tag-ortega-davila","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-terroristic-threats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189615","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=189615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}