Family Friend, Molester

Posted: January 25, 1992

The school counselor, teaching a class on "Good Touch, Bad Touch" in

December 1990 warned the female students about the things child molesters do.

"Eddie did that," a 9-year-old girl shouted.

The counselor then met privately with the girl, who said Edward Lord, 31, of 28th Street near Tasker, a friend of her parents, had forced her to have sex with him on several occasions.

"This man violated the trust the parents placed in him when they left their daughter in his care," said Assistant District Attorney Yvonne Ruiz yesterday, after a jury convicted Lord of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and corrupting the morals of a minor.

Common Pleas Judge Petrese B. Tucker allowed Lord to remain free on bail pending arguments in March for a new trial. Ruiz said that if Lord loses a new trial request, he faces at least 5 to 10 years in prison.

The girl, now 11, testified she was molested after her parents asked Lord to babysit for her and her younger brother.

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