The two suspects accused of killing a school teacher during a botched burglary inside her home in Lancaster last month have been slapped with more charges.
Thomas Gregory Moore and Marcus Anthony Rutter were charged Friday with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, receiving stolen property, theft and access device fraud.
Involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, the most serious new charge, stems from one or both suspects forcing the victim, Nicole Mathewson, to have sexual intercourse before her death, according to Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman
"Words cannot capture just how shocking and dreadful these facts are, and we take no pleasure in having to disclose them," Stedman said in a statement to 69 News. "There is no doubt that Ms. Mathewson endured an absolutely brutal and horrifying death, and these charges only add to the level of depravity of the criminal conduct she was forced to endure."
Both Moore, 25, and Rutter, 16, waived their rights to a preliminary hearing Friday. Both suspects were subsequently held for trial.
"We remain steadfast in our commitment to see that justice is done in this case," Steadman said.
Both men, police said, broke into Mathewson's home in the 700 block of North Franklin Street in Lancaster and attacked her on the morning of Dec. 15.
Moore then stole the victim's car and used her ATM card, according to court documents.
Mathewson, 32,was a sixth grade teacher at Brownstown Elementary School near Ephrata. She was found dead of multiple traumatic injuries when she failed to show up for work that morning.
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