The Binary Circumstance

The Seatte PI reports this morning that Ronald Harold Young who was charged last week with raping his foster children, is the son of a convicted child rapist, Harold Edgar Young.

The father of a man who now faces more than 30 counts of child rape involving foster sons in his care was himself a child rapist, according to court records.

Fifteen years ago, Harold Edgar Young pleaded guilty to second-degree child rape after two of his granddaughters accused him of sexual molestation, prompting residents of the mobile-home park he managed to draft a petition to keep him away. Court documents in the case also say Harold Young may have molested his own stepdaughters.

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Ronald Young, a seemingly devout born-again Christian who was studying to be a minister, and his wife began caring for abused and neglected children in their rural Key Peninsula home in the summer of 2002.

The state expanded the family’s license from three to six children last year.

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