PHILADELPHIA _ The parents who allegedly "gifted" their 14-year-old daughter to a Bucks County man who got her pregnant have pleaded not guilty to child endangerment.
Lawyers for Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus, a Lancaster County couple, waived arraignment hearings that had been set for Friday after entering the pleas Wednesday.
Attorneys for Lee Kaplan, 51, the man accused of statutory rape for impregnating the teen, did the same Tuesday.
The now-18-year-old female, the two daughters she has had with Kaplan, and her sisters were discovered in his Feasterville house in June.
Along with Savilla Stoltzfus, they had been living there for three to four years, prosecutors say, while Daniel Stoltzfus and the couple's sons resided at their farm in Quarryville, Lancaster County.
The Stoltzfuses, who had renounced the Amish church several years earlier, reportedly told police that Kaplan helped them out of financial ruin, and that in return, they "gifted" him their oldest daughter.
The sisters are now together in Lancaster County. Welfare hearings are ongoing.
A trial is set for November.
