Former Harris Township community leader Christopher Lee continues to rack up new child sex abuse charges.
Arrested by FBI agents at his Boalsburg home last October, Lee already faced numerous felonies for allegedly transporting a 17-year-old minor into the country with the intent to molest him as well as producing and possessing child pornography.
Federal prosecutors now say that Lee also brought a second foreign minor, a 14 year old, into the country with the intent to force the victim to engage in sexual activity. Lee now faces two additional felony charges of transportation of a minor, punishable by up to life in prison, and coercion and enticement, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Lee – a former Harris Township supervisor and CEO of the Boal Mansion Museum – was originally scheduled to go before a judge in December, but his trial has been delayed several times.
Lee’s defense attorney successfully convinced a judge that his case should be split into two separate trials: one for the charges related to transporting and enticing minors, and one for the charges related to possessing and producing child pornography.
However, federal prosecutors are pushing for the judge to reconsider that decision and try all the charges at once, and asked for more time to argue their case before Lee goes to trial. A new trial date has not yet been set.
