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May 15, 2008 7:21 am US/Eastern

Part-Time Clown Serving Time For Molestation

LEBANON, Pa. (AP) ― A former police officer and part-time clown is facing 12 to 35 years in prison in the attempted rape of a Lebanon County teenager.

Thirty-five-year-old Michael Fernsler of Annville will serve that sentence after a 26- to 52-year term for molesting two 4-year-old girls in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, in 2006.

Lebanon County President Judge Robert Eby likens what he heard Wednesday to "the stuff we have seen in horror movies."

Fernsler has been a Shippensburg University police officer and a North Londonderry Township patrolman. And he's appeared before children's groups as Chuckles the Clown.

He has pleaded guilty to both the Dauphin and Lebanon county charges. Police say he accosted the teenage girl after she got off a school bus, bound her with duct tape and forced her into the woods at knifepoint.

Information from: The Patriot-News, http://www.pennlive.com/patriotnews

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