SCI Houtzdale Homicide 11:11 pm
Clearfield County District Attorney Ryan Sayers said Garrick Bloom was being held at SCI Houtzdale for child molestation charges.
According to online court documents, Bloom was facing over 800 counts in relation to child rape incidents dating back from 2007 to 2012.
Jacob Mitchell was serving a sentence for a felony theft charge.
On August 29th of last year, Sayers said Bloom and Mitchell were drinking alcohol and later that night, Bloom was found dead in his jail cell.
“They were locked in at the end of the day and then after final count. During the night, the defendant Mitchell proceeded to beat up and strangle the victim,” Ryan Sayers, Clearfield County District Attorney.
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Clearfield County Man Facing Charges 10:30 pm
22-year-old James McClelland faces multiple charges after authorities say he sexually assaulted a five year old girl in Boggs Township.
According to court documents, the five-year-old victim and her family were staying at a home in Boggs Township, Clearfield County.
Authorities said James McClelland was staying with the victim and her family from February to March of this year.
During this time authorities said when he was babysitting the victim, he sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions.
“In Clearfield County we have been seeing a lot more of these child sexual assault cases and that is as we were talking beforehand probably the worst crimes that we are seeing,” said Ryan Sayers, Clearfield County District Attorney.