{"id":234156,"date":"2026-07-02T21:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234156\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:42:11","slug":"berks-county-man-accused-of-indecent-assault-of-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234156\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County man accused of indecent assault of a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI\u2019M NICOLE BELTRAN, WGAL NEWS EIGHT. NEW TONIGHT, EPHRATA POLICE IN LANCASTER COUNTY SAY A BERKS COUNTY MAN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A CHILD THAT HE KNEW FROM AT LEAST THE AGE OF FOUR THROUGH THE AGE OF 16, AND NOW HE\u2019S CHARGED WITH INDECENT ASSAULT. THOSE CHARGES WERE FILED TODAY AGAINST 48 YEAR-OLD EDWARD FRITZ, WHO CURRENTLY LIVES IN MOUNTAIN. OUTSIDE OF READING. OFFICERS SAY THEIR CASE BEGAN IN FEBRUARY AFTER THE VICTIM REPORTED THE\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Ephrata Police Department in Lancaster County has charged Edward Fritz, a 48-year-old man from Mohnton, Berks County with indecent assault after allegations of sexual abuse spanning 12 years.  Police said the charges stem from a case that began in February when an adult victim reported the abuse, which allegedly occurred from the age of 4 to 16.  The charges against Fritz were filed on Thursday, police said.  Fritz was arraigned and released on $60,000 unsecured bail, according to police.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tEPHRATA, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Ephrata Police Department in Lancaster County has charged Edward Fritz, a 48-year-old man from Mohnton, Berks County with indecent assault after allegations of sexual abuse spanning 12 years.  <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"The Ephrata Police Department in Lancaster County have charged Edward Fritz, a 48-year-old man from Mohnton, Berks County, with indecent assault after allegations of sexual abuse spanning 12 years.\" title=\"The Ephrata Police Department in Lancaster County have charged Edward Fritz, a 48-year-old man from Mohnton, Berks County, with indecent assault after allegations of sexual abuse spanning 12 years.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ba7abac0-e650-4750-a5c3-ad2003ce35ae.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHearst OwnedWGAL\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEdward Fritz<\/p>\n<p>Police said the charges stem from a case that began in February when an adult victim reported the abuse, which allegedly occurred from the age of 4 to 16.  <\/p>\n<p>The charges against Fritz were filed on Thursday, police said.  <\/p>\n<p>Fritz was arraigned and released on $60,000 unsecured bail, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019M NICOLE BELTRAN, WGAL NEWS EIGHT. NEW TONIGHT, EPHRATA POLICE IN LANCASTER COUNTY SAY A BERKS COUNTY MAN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[101082,101083,38680,59971,454,5855,101079,101080,22462,3685,10210,101081,206,128,130,129,2493,3522,78],"class_list":["post-234156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-48-year-old-man","tag-adult-victim","tag-allegation","tag-berks-county-man","tag-charge","tag-child","tag-edward-fritz","tag-ephrata-police-department","tag-indecent-assault","tag-lancaster-county","tag-mohnton","tag-ndecent-assault-of-a-child","tag-police","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-thursday","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234156","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=234156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}