A 32-year-old Scranton man faces charges after police said he unlawfully entered a city residence, exposed himself and assaulted children.<\/p>\n
Police responded to a home on the 1400 block of Linden Street Sunday around 3:12 a.m. for a report of two males fighting, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Officer Jack Carroll spoke with a 19-year-old male who said he was sleeping when his siblings woke him and told him there was an unknown male in the house, police said.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old found the suspect\u00a0\u2014 later identified as Ravirajsinh Champavat \u2014 and asked him to leave multiple times, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
When the resident thought Champavat might have been reaching for a weapon, he pushed him out the front door, police said.<\/p>\n
Before that, Champavat brought children into a room and exposed himself to them, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Champavat also had indecent contact with two children under the age of 13, police said.<\/p>\n
Several children said Champavat groped them, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
The Times-Tribune does not identify victims of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
A neighbor who called 911 told police the suspect frequently stands on nearby street corners and watches the children, describing his behavior as suspicious, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
As of Monday, Champavat remained in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $250,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 30 at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old Scranton man faces charges after police said he unlawfully entered a city residence, exposed himself and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-68085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68085","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=68085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}