MARSHFIELD - An 18-year-old carnival worker allegedly raped two young girls he met over the weekend at the Marshfield Fair, prosecutors said yesterday.
Jeffrey D. Witham of Oxford, Maine, allegedly raped the girls, ages 13 and 14, at one of the girl’s homes on Sunday.
He pleaded not guilty in Plymouth District Court yesterday to two counts of rape of a child with force, indecent assault and battery, indecent assault and battery on a person under 14, kidnapping, and assault and battery.
Bridget Norton Middleton, a spokeswoman for the Plymouth district attorney’s office, said Witham was arrested shortly after midnight yesterday as he was walking near the fair grounds. She said he worked for Fiesta Shows, a Seabrook, N.H., carnival company that calls itself “New England’s largest carnival.”
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