Police: Man confessed to raping trick-or-treaters

The man accused by prosecutors as the East Coast Rapist confessed to police that he raped two teenage trick-or-treaters in Virginia in 2009, according to court testimony.
 Authorities believe 40-year-old Aaron Thomas is responsible for rapes and other attacks on 17 women from Virginia to Connecticut over the span of a decade.
 Thomas was in court Thursday in Manassas for a preliminary hearing. The three girls he allegedly abducted _ two of whom were raped _ testified in graphic detail about what occurred.
 A police sergeant also testified that Thomas confessed to the Halloween rapes after he his arrest, but only after complaining that a police sketch failed to depict him properly.
 The judge found Thomas competent to stand trial after a court-ordered evaluation concluded that he was faking insanity.

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Law enforcement officials are widening the investigation into child sexual exploitation allegations against an adoptive father and two other men that have stunned a small city, authorities said Thursday.
 Two men who police say had sex with a boy in meetings arranged through the adoptive father have been jailed on rape charges. The 39-year-old adoptive father was arrested last week on charges he had sex with the three boys who lived with him in Troy, a city of some 25,000 people about 20 miles from Dayton.
 Troy police Capt. Chris Anderson said Thursday that the community's reaction was "shock and disbelief." The man at the center of the investigation is a longtime resident who had been involved in a local youth basketball program, though Anderson said police so far haven't found any signs of any inappropriate behavior involving other children.
 Police also hadn't found any records of past major criminal charges against the man, whose name was being withheld by The Associated Press to protect the children's identities. The man worked out of his home as an insurance claims adjuster, Anderson said.
 The man had adopted three children, one of them a 9-year-old girl, and was in the process of adopting a fourth child, authorities said.
 "We're hoping we have stopped this before it got any further," said Anderson.
 The Dayton Daily News reported that the adoptive father was a former president of the Foster Parent Association of Miami County. A search warrant affidavit said the man brought the children from Texas as a foster parent, the newspaper reported.
 State children's services officials are reviewing records and said the adoptions were handled by a private agency. Other details weren't available immediately.
 The case began unfolding last week when an undercover detective in Franklin County, part of a state task force, talked online with the adoptive father, who said he would arrange sex with a 10-year-old boy, Troy police said.
 Federal and state prosecutors and investigators and police from three Ohio cities planned to meet Thursday to discuss how to proceed in the widening investigation. The FBI said it was pursuing federal sexual exploitation charges.
 The adoptive father and the other two men, ages 29 and 31, remained jailed Thursday on rape charges.
Deu 22:25-  But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
 
Rom 1:26-  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:

2 Esdras 2:20-  Do right to the widow judge for the fatherless give to the poor defend the orphan clothe the naked

Ecclesiasticus 4:10-  Be as a father unto the fatherless and instead of an husband unto their mother so shalt thou be as the son of the most High and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth