A former Jim Thorpe man faces 25 charges totaling 144 counts for various sexual offenses that occurred in Carbon County over a nearly six-year span.

Jim Thorpe Police Department has charged James Matthew Acevedo-Schneider Jr., 25, Scranton, with the offenses that took place in the borough from April 2000 through January 2006.Charges include: rape, forcible compulsion, and threat of forcible compulsion; rape of a child; sexual assault; aggravated indecent assault without consent, and forcible compulsion; indecent assault, forcible compulsion; indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age; indecent exposure; involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child; aggravated indecent assault, less than 13 years old; and rape of a person less than 13 years old.According to an affidavit filed by Detective Lee Marzen of the Jim Thorpe Police Department:The victim, a relative of Acevedo-Schneider's, said he sexually assaulted her from the time she was 5 until she was 11 in the Jim Thorpe home in which Acevedo-Schneider lived at the time.The victim was video interviewed at the borough police station on March 19 of last year, at which time she reported that Acevedo-Schneider began to sexually abuse her when she was in kindergarten.She said it began with Acevedo-Schneider fondling her, then he became more controlling and raped her.The victim said that when she was between the ages of 5-8, Acevedo-Schneider would either fondle her and perform other acts on a daily basis, and the abuse continued until the family left town in 2006 when she was 11.She told police when she was 8, Acevedo-Schneider made her dress up and perform a sexual act on him, and that the sexual acts continued against her in other jurisdictions until she was 15.On June 29, Marzen contacted the State Correctional Institution, in Waymart, Wayne County, to make arrangements to speak with Acevedo-Schneider.Marzen asked him if he would speak with him about the sexual assault allegations, to which Acevedo-Schneider replied, "Why is this coming up now?"Acevedo-Schneider then agreed to speak with Marzen on July 7, when he agreed to sign the Miranda waiver form.At that time, Acevedo-Schneider said that he had the victim perform a sexual act on him in Jim Thorpe because he wasn't going to pass it up even though it was from a relative of his.As Marzen was interviewing him, Acevedo-Schneider began yelling and arguing about the allegations, and had to be restrained by two staff members.Acevedo-Schneider was video arraigned by District Magistrate Joseph Homanko in Weatherly, who set his bail at $150,000.He is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing at 1 p.m. March 2, before District Judge Ed Lewis of Jim Thorpe.According to the Scranton Times-Tribune, in October 2014, Lackawanna County Judge Vito Geroulo sentencedhim to one to four years in state prison for urinating on a 3-year-old and making the child drink his urine. He was also given one year of probation for a criminal trespassing charge.He remains in prison