A Lock Haven man was arrested Friday on charges accusing him of raping and sexually assaulting a child multiple times over the course of three years in Bellefonte and Clinton County.
Michael W. Oglesby, 39, is charged with five felony counts of rape of a child, three felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child and one felony count each of unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses and corruption of minors.
Bellefonte police began an initial investigation in the fall of 2022 after receiving a Childline report of suspected child sexual abuse, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Forensic interviews were conducted with the child that fall and again in May 2025 after a new officer was assigned to the case.
The alleged assaults occurred on multiple occasions at residences in Centre and Clinton counties between 2015 and 2018 when the child was under the age of 13, according to the charging documents.
A heavily redacted copy of the affidavit provided by district court to StateCollege.com makes unclear the child’s gender and specific age, and obscures most of the circumstances of the reported assaults.
The child reported being sexually abused about eight times and provided details of at least five specific instances, according to the affidavit. On at least one occasion, Oglesby allegedly showed the child pornography on his phone during the abuse.
Another adult confronted Oglesby at one point after the child disclosed that “something was going on,” and after that Oglesby told the child not to tell anyone about the abuse because he could get get in trouble, police wrote.
During an interview in June, another witness recalled an incident when the child was “crying and had a look… of being scared and hurt” after being alone with Oglesby, according to the affidavit. That witness said the child “disclosed… what [Oglesby] was doing… without sharing a lot of details.”
Oglesby was arraigned on Friday by District Judge Kelley Gillette-Walker, who denied bail.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 6.
