Pennsylvania man allegedly raped a child for years

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) – A Spring Mills man faces nearly two dozen charges on suspicion of raping a child.

Vladimir Slavskiy, 35, is behind bars on suspicion of raping a minor in 2017, when the victim was seven or eight years old.

On January 4, 2023, Rockview PSP officers were contacted by a relative of the victim about Slavskiy’s sexual abuse. The victim told the relative that Slavskiy sexually assaulted and raped her almost every time he was in the victim’s presence between 2017 and 2022, according to the criminal complaint.

The alleged rapes occurred at least twice in Erie in 2022, when the victim was 11, and several times in Centre County, including in Pleasant Gap and Spring Mills, according to the indictment.

The complaint states that at least one of the assaults occurred when the victim was 13 years old.

Due to public safety concerns, Slavskiy was denied bail and is currently being held in the Centre County Jail.

He is charged with 20 counts of rape of a child, two counts of grievous bodily harm to a child and one count of rape by coercion.

Slavskiy’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 12.