A former Archbald man is facing charges he sexually abused teenage girls for more than a decade, authorities said.
Lamont Boone, 47, whose current address is the Lackawanna County Prison, raped and impregnated several girls, one just 14 years old at an address in Archbald, according to two criminal complaints filed last week.
The Times-Tribune does not identify victims of sexual assault.
In 2005, when Boone was 33, he started sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl who would regularly sleep over at the house.
Sometimes, he came into the room where she slept to wake her up and escort her to his bedroom.
He told her not to say anything. Other people, he explained, would not understand their relationship and it would get him in trouble. Several years later, after she turned 18, she became pregnant with his child.
Police said Boone abused more than one girl.
Other girls came forward. One told police that Boone raped her when she was 10 years old. He put his hand over her mouth so she could not scream.
The abuse between the young girl and Boone became routine. When she started to get her period, Boone told her that they would need to be more careful.
By the time she was 14, she was pregnant. He had her get an abortion.
In two years, she became pregnant again and he took her for another abortion.
A third teenage girl carried Boone’s child when she was 17.
Police filed three separate criminal complaints charging Boone with numerous sex offenses including rape, rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child and statutory sexual assault. In addition to the two filed last week, Archbald police charged him in February 2017. He finally went before a judge for a preliminary arraignment on those charges last month.
Boone is in the county jail without bail. A preliminary hearing on each case is scheduled Dec. 9.
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