Kaplan Hit With 15 Additional Charges In Child "Gifting" Case

Lee Kaplan, the 51-year-old Feasterville man who is charged with several felonies after authorities found 12 girls living in his home, has had additional charges file against him, court records show.

According to court documents, Kaplan now faces three felony counts of rape of a child; five felony counts of indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age; three felony counts of statutory sexual assault; two felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child; one felony county of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years of age; and one count of misdemeanor indecent assault of a person less than 16 years of age.

Kaplan was arraigned on these new charges Monday morning and is schedule to appear before Judge John I. Waltman on Nov. 15 for his preliminary hearing on these charges, court documents show.

Kaplan was held on $1 million bail, court records show.

An affidavit for probable caused filed with the new charges alleges Kaplan sexually assaulted five sisters of the girl Kaplan was initially charged of sexually assaulting and fathered two children with.

Affidavit said Kaplan dreamed of the girls being his wives and told the girls it was "what God wanted."

The newly announced victims are girls who are now 17, 15, 13, 10, and 8 years old. The girls were abused from ages 14 to 17; 11 to 15; 10 to 13; 6 to 10; and from 8 years old, respectively, the affidavit said.

The victims told police Kaplan forced various sex acts on the girls, including sodomy and oral sex, the affidavit said.

Kaplan was arrested on June, 16, 2016 after authorities located 12 female children in his Old Street Road home, court records show.

Authorities say one of the females, now 18, was given to Kaplan after he helped an Amish couple from Lancaster County out of financial trouble. That couple was charged with conspiracy.