The trial for a Macedonia man indicted on nearly two dozen child sex crime charges is scheduled to begin next week after he backed out of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Lupica was arrested in May at his home on Apache Run, which neighbors say doubled as a childcare service. Those charges include rape, pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor or impaired person, illegal use of a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material and gross sexual imposition.
The prosecutor told the judge the rape counts involved multiple children under the age of five and that there was a large number of images of children, both nude and in sex acts, found on Lupica’s phone.