NBC10: Men, wife, girlfriend face hundreds of charges for torturing, sexually abusing children

    A man, his wife, and a woman described as his girlfriend have been charged with torturing and sexually abusing four children who were in his care for 24 years.

    Fifty-one-year-old Warren Earl Yerger Sr. of Douglassville faces more than 500 criminal charges in connection with the alleged crimes against two boys and two girls, including rape, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault and corruption of minors. The alleged assaults took place from 1989 to 2012, according to investigators.

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