SOMERSET, Pa. — UPDATE: The hearing for accused child rapist Timothy David Nelson has been waived. Channel 11 will contnue to follow this trial and investigation as it continues.
ORIGINAL: An accused child rapist will be in court Wednesday to face a judge, 20 years after the crime.
Timothy David Nelson allegedly abducted a young girl while she was walking home from school in Somerset County in 1999.
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She was later found walking on the side of a road in Fayette County near the Maryland border.
Nelson was charged earlier this month after an unrelated arrest got his DNA to surface into the system.
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