The child rape allegations against a former Lancaster police officer date back nearly 30 years

A former Lancaster City police officer has been charged with the rape of two more girls, weeks after he was arrested for sexually abusing three other children, police said.

Court documents filed Thursday say Andrew S. Selby, 54, of Pocopson Township, Chester County, raped a 15- or 16-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl nearly three decades ago. He was charged with rape by coercion, sexual abuse and similar offenses.

Selby was a Lancaster city police officer for six years, until 2000. During that time, he abused a 12-year-old, a 16-year-old and another prepubescent child – one of whom was a rape victim whose case he was assigned to investigate, according to the Lancaster Bureau of Police, which announced the results of its investigation at a May 17 press conference.

According to police, five more victims have come forward since the press conference. The charges filed on Thursday concern two of these victims.

The affidavits of probable cause made the following statement:

A woman told police that when she was 12, she was staying overnight at an acquaintance’s house in Lancaster. She woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and passed by Selby, who was wearing only his underwear, and asked her to sit with him, court documents say.

When the girl refused, Selby pulled her onto his lap and raped her, the affidavit states. The girl told police the assault stopped when the other adult in the house woke up. According to court documents, the other adult confirmed that Selby was with the girl in her home during that time.

The year in which this encounter took place was not disclosed from the affidavits, but online court records list the date of the crime as 1993.

Another woman said she was 15 or 16 when she visited Selby’s Lancaster home in 1995-96. The girl said Selby allowed her and another girl to go to his home to smoke marijuana. The girl knew Selby from conversations she had with him while on duty, court documents show.

Selby ordered the girl to go upstairs with him. When she refused, he carried her into a bedroom, threw her on a bed and raped her, an affidavit states.

Records confirm that Selby lived at that address at the time the girl said the rape occurred, the affidavit states.

Police had previously said Selby was admitted to Lancaster General Hospital after a 16-year-old was sexually assaulted by Roberto Rosario, 44, of Dallastown on Dec. 27, 1997. A few days later, Selby, then 28, assaulted the victim while “investigating the first (assault),” police said.

The other two sexual assaults announced at the May 17 press conference occurred in 1999, according to police.

After one of the victims came forward in March, an investigation was launched.

Because of the initial assault charges, Selby was charged with rape and sexual assault, as well as involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, sexual assault of a minor, attempted rape, attempted sexual assault of a minor, and attempted sexual assault.

Lancaster police previously said they believe there may be more victims. Anyone with information can call the Lancaster Bureau of Police at 717-735-3319 or submit a tip through CrimeWatch.