{"id":25466,"date":"2025-11-05T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25466\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:00:11","slug":"ex-delco-park-police-officer-acquitted-of-child-rape-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25466\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Delco Park Police Officer Acquitted Of Child Rape Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DELAWARE COUNTY, PA \u2014 A former Delaware County Park Police officer has been found not guilty of child rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, and indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old court records show.<\/p>\n<p>William Thomas McGrath IV, 31, of Upper Darby, was <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/haverford\/ex-delco-park-police-officer-hit-child-sex-crime-charges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged with those crimes in October 2024<\/a>. He was found not guilty Tuesday, according to documents.<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of sexually abusing a child at a local daycare. The accuser is now an adult.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of other counts of those same charges were dismissed in court Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Common Pleas Court Judge Margaret Amoroso said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2025\/10\/28\/reasonable-doubt-upper-darby-man-acquitted-of-child-sexual-assault-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">testimony in the case led to reasonable doubt<\/a> and the subsequent acquittal, the Delaware County Daily Times reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DELAWARE COUNTY, PA \u2014 A former Delaware County Park Police officer has been found not guilty of child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-25466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466","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=25466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}