The man, Andrew J. Gallo, 40, of Bristol Township, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, is accused of raping or sexually assaulting six women he met on dating sites.
A Pennsylvania man accused of drugging at least six women he met online and raping or sexually assaulting them while they were impaired was arrested on Wednesday, the authorities said.
Over a year, the man, Andrew J. Gallo, 40, of Bristol Township, Pa., met the women and a minor through a dating website called Sugardaddymeet.com and invited them to his home, giving them drinks laced with drugs in order to violently assault them, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office. They ranged in age from 17 to 30, the prosecutor’s office said.
Sugardaddymeet.com describes itself as a place for “successful men and attractive women looking for mutually fulfilling relationships.”
Mr. Gallo is being held under $500,000 bail at the Bucks County Correctional Facility. It was unclear on Wednesday whether Mr. Gallo had legal representation or how he intended to plea.
“He methodically carried out what was clearly preplanned crimes with the sole purpose of satisfying his deviant sexual desire,” Jennifer Schorn, the district attorney in Bucks County, in suburban Philadelphia, said during a news conference on Wednesday.
Mr. Gallo was arraigned on Wednesday on five counts of rape by causing impairment, six counts of drug possession, four counts of strangulation, two counts of providing alcohol to minors and one count of corruption of minors, the authorities said.
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