Pittsburgh Child-Rape Suspect Waives Prelim, Will Stand Trial

A 46-year-old man charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in Pittsburgh waived his preliminary hearing on Thursday.

Clyde Haidle will stand trial on charges of raping a girl in an abandoned Greenfield home along Ivondale Street in May.

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"I'd like to see him stay in jail for the rest of his life," the girl's father said.

He also addressed Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday and told them they need to act now before someone else gets hurt.

“There have been calls on the abandoned house up there,” he said. “This has been an ongoing issue, and I just think it is time that this situation is addressed before other things happen there.”

Police found Haidle hiding in his home, under floor boards that were part of a makeshift trap door he had built.

He has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

Since Haidle's arrest, Channel 11 News has learned that he spent nearly 15 years in the Oklahoma prison system for rape and other charges, but never had to register as a sex offender.

That's because Haidle was convicted in 1987, which means he was never required to notify Oklahoma authorities when he relocated to Pennsylvania.

His prior crimes all came when he lived in Oklahoma. There, he was convicted of first-degree rape by force, attempted rape, robbery with a dangerous weapon and sodomy. All of the convictions were in 1987. He was imprisoned until January 2002.

Channel 11 contacted the sex offender registry in Oklahoma and discovered that Megan’s Law took effect in 1989 in Oklahoma.

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