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JENKINS TWP. &mdash; A Pittston man was arrested Wednesday on charges he forcibly raped a woman multiple times over the course of seven years, including when the woman was a minor.
				Ricky Federici, 53, was taken into custody by the Jenkins Township Police Department and arraigned on multiple charges relating to the rape and sexual assault allegations made against him by the victim, who said that Federici sexually abused her from 2012-2019.
				According to the criminal complaint:
				The victim initially reported the sexual abuse to police in July 2019. She told officers that Federici had started to abuse her in 2012, when she was just 15 years old and he was 44 years old.
				She told police that Federici would force her to submit to intercourse with him, and that he would become violent and threaten her when she would resist.
				These acts occurred roughly once a week for seven years, primarily at a residence on Erin Court in the Heather Highlands Trailer Park.
				The victim added that Federici would sometimes pick her up from work and pull over on a back road in the trailer park to have intercourse with her. Federici would also do the same thing while picking her up from dentist appointments.
				Federici was also abusive and violent toward the victim&rsquo;s mother, which made her apprehensive about reporting Federici to the police. On one occasion, the victim said that Federici doused the home in gasoline and threatened to &ldquo;burn it down with them in it.&rdquo;
				Police were able to interview the victim&rsquo;s siblings, who both reported that Federici had tried to have indecent contact with them in the past, and echoed the victim&rsquo;s claims that Federici had been violent toward their mother.
				On Aug. 31 of this year, investigators recorded a phone call made by the victim to Federici, in which he did not deny committing the acts that the victim was accusing him of.
				Federici was arraigned in front of Magisterial District Judge Ferris Webby on Wednesday evening on charges of rape by forcible compulsion, statutory sexual assault, indecent sexual assault and misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors, terroristic threats and simple assault.
				Unable to post bail set at $250,000, Federici was lodged at Luzerne County Correctional Facility to await a preliminary hearing scheduled for Jan. 5.

Pittston man faces rape charges