Youngstown man will be sentenced for rape in W.Va.

January 7, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A man arrested here on a warrant for rape last August out of West Virginia will be sentenced in that state Feb. 28.

According to West Virginia TV station WBOY Channel 12, Marshall William Wolfe, 43, of Youngstown, pleaded guilty in a West Virginia courtroom Wednesday to second-degree sexual assault. He faces 10 to 20 years in prison.

Police there have DNA evidence they say connected him to the 1991 rape of a 12-year-old girl in Preston County, W.Va.

West Virginia authorities said Wolfe entered the girl’s home where he sexually assaulted her after her father had left for work. Wolfe worked with the victim’s father, authorities added.

The victim was taken to a hospital where evidence was collected using a sex-crime kit, but the case went cold. It was reopened in 2008, and the kit was submitted again for testing.

In June, police received a tip to investigate Wolfe, who had been involved in several “Peeping Tom” incidents around the time of the sexual assault.