The document summarizes a fire at a former factory in New Castle and a preliminary hearing for a man charged with raping a 12-year-old girl. Firefighters battled a fire at the abandoned Shenango China factory where workers had been burning plastic and wiring. A rape hearing was stopped because neither of the girl's parents were present in court. The judge said it was inappropriate for her to testify without a guardian.

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Firefighters battle a fire Tuesday at the former Shenango China factory in New Castle. The fire broke out
around 6 p.m., and firefighters were hampered in their efforts by strong winds and a dry fire hydrant at the
site. City Assistant Fire Chief David Joseph said workers at the site reported chasing off some men who had
been using torches to burn plastic coating off copper wire in a possible attempted copper theft.
Parents of alleged child rape victim absent at hearing
BY BILL UTTERBACK District Judge Robert L. ence of a guardian, then tion of minors, according
BUTTERBACK@TIMESONLINE.COM Ford, addressing a stand- continued the hearing of to a criminal complaint
ing-room-only crowd in his Richard McCracken, 28, filed by Allegheny County
LEETSDALE — As a 12-year- Leetsdale courtroom, said of 105 Crestview Village, detectives.
old girl sat quietly in the
witness chair, ready to
provide testimony re-
“that makes it interesting”
when Lawrence Mitchell
of the Allegheny County
Ambridge, until June 12.
McCracken was charged
June 22 with two counts of
The charges involve
multiple assaults on the
girl in her Leetsdale
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garding rape charges, a district attorney’s office rape and one count each home beginning when she
preliminary hearing for informed him of the girl’s of unlawful contact with was 8, according to the po- Classified D1 Funnies D4
her alleged attacker was situation. a minor, statutory sexual lice complaint. The girl,
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ents was in court. to testify without the pres- of a child, and corrup- ABSENT, PAGE A12 Dear Abby C7 Sports B1 © 2011 Beaver Newspapers Inc.
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