Chris. Luce assorted story here tonight involving an amish family and bucks county man and what happened between them when that family allegedly gifted their oldest daughter to the man in an effort to try to save their family farm out in Lancaster County. It sounds bizarre. It is. And tonight there are accusations and formal charges of statutory Sexual Assault and child endangerment. We all know each other. We watch out for each other. We would know. Reporter but it appears no one new. That in this cottage on old street road in trevose, 51yearold Leonardo Dicaprio plan was living with 12 girls ages 18 to six months old. Mr. Kaplan admitted to fathering these two children with this 18yearold girl. The children are three and six months now. Putting the victim at 14 or 15 when the child was conceived. He confessed to that. Police arrested kaplan after a surprise visit from bucks county Child Welfare officials. We believe that these children came from Lancaster County to bucks county, um, with their parents and some kind of strange thing happened to mr. Kaplan that theyre staying in this house. Reporter sources say kaplan connected with a large amish family who were about to lose their farm. The parents allegedly offering their oldest daughter who was 14 at the time as a gift to kaplan. The other nine children and parents had been staying with kaplan when he fathered the two youngest children. As of right now were working with authorities in Lancaster County trying to were going to have a person who is very familiar with amish culture help us interview these kids further to find out what was going on. You certainly can have his full senses to do Something Like this to all these girls. And their parents to give them up to a man like this for money. No. Reporter some neighbors called kaplan strange. Others said they never saw the extended family outside very often. Hes the father really. Hes the father for the childr children. Reporter police still trying to sort out all of the details. All of those girls are in protective custody in buck county. Kaplan and the amish parents are in jail. Kaplan facing the most serious charges. Tonight were live in trevose, Joanne Pileggi fox 29 news. Back to you, chris. Joanne, thanks. On to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Beautiful night out there. Lets take life at the ben franklin parkway. Center city. You can probably turn off the airconditioning. Maybe open up the windows. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams here with a look at whats on the radar for fathers day weekend. Hi scott. Hi l chris. Beautiful weather. High pressure in full control. So, yeah, open up the windows, let in some of that fresh air. All of the showers and storms well to our south, and take live look outside of our studios right now. Beautiful weather. 67 the current temperature. We made it up to 84 degrees. Dew points right now not that bad. In the upper 40s. So as we look at temperatures across the area, 65 millville. Upper 50s already in atlantic city. We have 67 in pottstown. 60 right now in the pocono mountains. So for the overnight, mostly clear, dry, comfortable. Mid 50s in the burbs. Right around 60 degrees in philadelphia and what about your weekend preview . Were looking beautiful for fathers day weekend. 84 degrees the High Temperature in philadelphia tomorrow. 87 degrees by sunday. Coming up well have your entire weekend forecast down the shore the pocono mountains and, yes, we are timing some 90degree heat just in time for summer the seven day forecast is next. Back to you. All right. Thats a nice forecast, scott. You can always plan your weekend with the fox 29 app. Get alerts sent right to your phone. Even check the radar download it in the i tunes or google play stores. Saying goodbye after a tragic loss hundreds lined up in Burlington County to pay their respects to the family of Christina Grimmie. She was a former winner of the voice. And her life came to an brunt end over the week went police say someone shot her while she was signing autographs. Fox 29s brat brad sattin live in medford new jersey tonight. Brad, fans, community members, friends all remembering this young star tonight. Reporter yeah, lots of people here tonight, chris. Learning not so much about a pop music star as we did tonight about a real person. By our guess upwards of 2500 people came through here. First through receiving line this afternoon, meeting the family and then a Memorial Service here that ended about 30 minutes ago. Memorial began with Christina Grimmie herself doing what she did so well. Reporter followed by family and longtime friends her aunt who helped to home School Christina as she pursued her dream of music career. She was excited for new experiences and her joy was contagious. Reporter childhood friends sharing those goofy moments christina and her friend lauren as kids creating their own baby language. Christina and i created this variation of english language that consisted of making words counter as cute as possible. With her friend Sarah Christina shared something else. When we were in first grade, we both got lies. laughter . Laughs in between lots of tears christina facing god toast those who knew her. She would ask me to pray for her over is it stuff and i would and she began to feel like she could trust me. Share struggles she was going through. Reporter her brother marcus was played for his her row we can tackling the club in that orlando club after he fire the shot. When the gunman came he was very quick, it happened so fast. Her arms were open and she she saw jesus next. Reporter christinas parents bud and tina while not understanding why they had to lose their only daughter take something comfort in acknowled acknowledging it was gods plan. God planned is better than my plan. I know that for a fact. I can hardly plan dinner thing right. No you cant. No, i cant. Let me tell you something. Everybody here im overwhelmed by the support. Reporter christina was actually buried yesterday in a private ceremony. She was very active in this community as a result the majority of people at the Service Tonight at the memorial seemed to know her personally, but we also found there were some fans who came great distances to be here as well. Chris . Such a sad story. Thanks, brad. Prosecutors in bucks county have charged a would be thief and the man who Authorities Say opened fire on him. Investigators say thursday morning, before i sean jones chased a man trying to break into his car that man identified as Joshua Dennis ended up crashing at pennsylvania and bridge streets in morrisville. That is when jones opened fire and shot dennis in the arm. Now, both men are facing charges. Prosecutors say jones did not need to use his gun. More families lay to rest victims pulse nightclub massacre new details are emerging about the killer. He teched his wife two hours into the attack asking if she had seen the news. The fbi is looking at just how much omar mateens wife knew about the attack. Sources also say his wife texted him on the night of the shooting asking where he was, and telling him that she loved him. As of yet she does not face any charges. Weve also learned that weeks before the attack mateen tried to buy military grade body armor and 1,000 rounds of ammunition from gun shop. The shop refused to sell him anything and notified the fbi. Authorities say the Surveillance Video was just too grainy to trace who he was. Our intuition was correct, and its just its very sad that we had him that close. It was that close Law Enforcement could have got their hands on him. Six survivors remain in Critical Condition at florida hospitals. Families of the three of 49 People Killed will lay them to rest tomorrow in orlando. The city has waived 1,500 plot fee. Brand new tax on sugary drinks has a lot of philadelphians up in arms. Their fears over a price spike could be overblown. Bruce gordon says a looming court fight and strategic pricing by store owners may erase the tax altogether or at least soften the blow. Reporter if you thought City Council Final passage of the kenney administrations sugary beverage tack was the end of the story, and the beginning come january 1st of sky rocketing prices for some of your favorite drinks, well not so fast. For starter starters opponents of the levee on inch ounce of soda say they will sue the city claiming the mayor had no right to target a specific industry. Specific products. The city knows that when it wants to levee a new type of tack it needs to go to harrisburg to get approval. Reporter state legislatur legislature. Exactly. Get approval from the state legislature. Reporter in this case . In this case the mayor didnt. He said that he already had the authority and we disagree with that. Reporter mayor appearing friday morning with radio host john dubella insisted his administration is prepared for a court fight. Our Law Department is confident they can defend this and issued pins that say that we can defend it, and we think we can defense it. We wouldnt have moved forward with it the way we did. Reporter thats assume fo fr sake of argument in lawsuit is filed and the city defends its new tax in court what the impact be for shoppers come january those folks who buy the sugary sodas and juices. Will they be impacted by the full penny and a half an ounce. Franco owns this Grocery Store in over broke. So does a huge part of his business. Located close to the line he cant afford to chase customers away. So says daughter martha, they may raise the prices on their sugary drinks by just part of the tax hike. Reduce their profit margin on that line of products. That will be a good idea probably about 10cents for soda and bill 15, spread it around. Reporter other products. In other products. Reporter end result might be small increases on lots of products customers would pay slightly more for their overall grocery bill but would not get hit with a price spike on sodas and juices. Bottom line, dont panic. This soda story isnt over just yet. In philadelphia, Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. It was supposed to be day to celebrate old glor but it turned into way much more than that. What 1pa lawmaker did that is stirring up controversy. Happiest place on earth still struggling after the shocking death of a twoyearold boy this week. What the park is doing to try to prevent future tragedies. And police are looking for three who people who started a fire inside a wal mart with fireworks. Fire Officials Say this could prosecutors arent saying how but they are saying Montgomery County woman killed her 96yearold neighbor and they have charged 34yearold Elizabeth Floyd with third degree murder. In september of last year, East Norriton police found her neighbor 96yearold pain lying in his driveway. He was severely injured. He ended up in longterm care and died in february. The medical examiner has ruled his death a homicide. In delaware county, traffic moving again after two separate crashes happening at the same time on the Commodore Barry bridge. Busy time on friday night in the summer. This was the scene on the bridge that connects new jersey to chester around 5 20 tonight. First accident involved three cars on the eastbound side. The second with one car on top of another in the westbound lanes. Two people were injured. Police say not seriously. Both accidents under investigation. The driver accused of hitting two teens with a car then taking off is in jail tonight. 34yearold Brandon Carter charged with aggravated assault while driving under the influence and related offenses. Police say he slammed into two, 16yearold boys who were riding double on bike on north broad and wallace streets. The impact was so strong the bike flew 50 feet from the crash. One of the boys is in extremely Critical Condition. The other doctors releas releasm the hospital with minor injuri injuries. Grand jury is decided not to file charges against two Vineland Police officers who arrested a man who died in custody. 32yearold philip white died in march of 2015. Police arrested white while responding to a disorderly persons call he ended up having trouble breathing became unresponsive in an ambulance. Medical examiner says pcp contribute to do his death and ruled it accidental. You decide inn clues sit have the in this years dmc. More than 100 children and adults with disabilities will work at the convention as greeters. Unique partnership between the Philadelphia Host Committee and the arc of philadelphia making this possibility. Volunteers are local residents with intellectual and developmental dissable. They hope to highlight Youth Leadership within the disabled community. Ed rendell is philadelphias Host Committee chair. The great things about our country, we are diverse country and we want to reflect that diversity, and people who have special challenges are a segment of our population that cant and should not be ignored and there are many delegates who come from the community. People who are facing challeng challenges. The city expects about 12,000 people will volunteer at this years convention right here in philadelphia. A flag Day Celebration in harrisburg sparked controversy after an elected official took issue with the couldnt federal flag flying inside the state capital. Fox 29s Bill Anderson has more. Thats why it was important for me to take a stand. To make sure that the next generation of children are not taught that hay dread is okay. Reporter a flag Day Celebration in harrisburg sparked controversy when philadelphia state representative Vanessa Lowry brown took issue with the Hanover Area Historical Society displaying whats widely referred to as the Confederate Flag in the state capitol. I was walking through the capitol and i came upon a display of flags. I noticed that one of them was the Confederate Flag. And i immediately said theres no way that flag can be presented in the Pennsylvania State capitol. And i took it down. Reporter the flag was part of a 50 flag display that according to the historical societys website was supposed to tell the history of how america was shaped through flags of historical importance. Representative brown told me thats fine, but said the display lacks proper context. The flag represents hatred, murder and oppression. Its wrong. Reporter the removal of the flag drew immediate backla backlash. The police were called on representative brown and the flag was momentarily returned to its place in the display. Although unavailable for comment, the historical societys written statement defends the flag display saying history is a compilation of good and bad events. It is important to tell the whole story and not gloss over negative historical events. This is 100th anniversary of flag day and we do not intend to call offense to anyone by presenting this historical display. Shortly after the flag was returned, it was again taken down. This time by order of governor tom wolf. The governor immediately the the flag be remove from the capitol. Reporter the debate continues on social media. Is displaying the con fed rat flag displaying a piece of history or demonstration of hatred. We want to know what you think. Leave your comments on our fox 29 Facebook Page or tweet us at fox 29 philly. In the newsroom, im Bill Anderson, fox 29 news. A group of teens battling cancer had a chance to forget their chemo and sick notice night. Tonight was prom night. Prom to remember hosted tonight events at the ritz carlton in center city. Kids 12 to 19 years old looks like so much fun got the star treatment complete with a red carpet on they are way inside. The prom is an annual event at no cost to the kids or the families. Prom at the ritz. Right. Nice. A lot of people having some harsh words for pope francis after his comments on marriage this week. What the pontiff said thats drawing criticism. When police pull you over its typically because youve done something wrong. How cops in one pennsylvania town are reward now your winning lottery numbers. Alligator warning signs and fencing now going up at Walt Disneyworld resorts. This in response to this weeks tragic death of a nebraska toddler by an alligator. Disney will put up warning signs on all of its resort beaches in florida. The beaches will remain closed until those signs are install. The company says its also introducing thorough review of its safety protocols. Twoyearold lane graves was snatched from the shallow waters of a disney hotel on tuesday by a gator. His body recovered a day later. This has been a day to remember the lives lost in a mass shooting historic africanamerican church in Charleston South Carolina one year ago. Community wide Memorial Service remember the victims in asports arena a few blocks from emmanuel ame church nine black parishioners died during bible study and during the service to honor the victims South Carolina