A Perry County man has been charged with raping a mentally disabled girl, according to state police.

On Friday, Mark Brooks Clegg, 48, of Linton Hill Road in Penn Twp., was charged with two counts of rape of a mentally disabled person, two counts of statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault of someone with a mental disability and indecent assault of someone with a mental disability, police said.

The assaults occurred between August 2013 and October 2015, when the victim was under the age of consent, police said. The girl is now 18.

Clegg told troopers he was "going through a crisis at this time" and that he had sexual contact with the victim on two occasions in her bedroom in Middlesex Township, Cumberland County, according to a report from CBS21.

The report quotes court documents that state additional assaults occurred while the girl would ride along with Clegg as he delivered newspapers in the Carlisle area.

Clegg was an independent contractor delivering The Patriot-News prior to July 2015, when he gave up his route.

Clegg has been released from the Cumberland County Prison on $50,000 unsecured bail. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 15.