A Patton Township man pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Centre County court to the rape and sexual assault of six women over the course of nine years at his Oakwood Avenue home.
Kevin P. Mullen, 50, was arrested in November 2021 after one of the women contacted Patton Township police earlier in the year and an investigation identified five additional victims.
He pleaded guilty to felony counts of rape, attempted rape and aggravated indecent assault. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 3.
“Today, Kevin Mullen pleaded guilty to committing violent sexual crimes against multiple women, after luring them to his home under false pretenses,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro, whose office is prosecuting the case, said in a statement. While there is no undoing the damage Mullen has caused, today’s guilty plea is a step toward justice for these women,” said Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
According to a criminal complaint, Mullen met each of the women online, saying that he was looking for a house cleaner or “someone to cuddle with.”
The first alleged rape occurred in 2012. A woman told investigators that Mullen raped her after she responded to a Craigslist ad for a house cleaning job. After the assault, Mullen allegedly locked her in a bedroom and she used a butter knife to remove hinge pins from the door and escape.
Subsequent rapes or sexual assaults occurred in 2017, 2019, 2020 and in March of this year. Each of the women described similar details about their encounters with Mullen, according to the complaint.
Mullen allegedly told three of the women that he had raped others and “gotten away with it.”
He has been detained at the Centre County Correctional Facility since his arrest.
