Roger L. Young

CHICORA — The results of a lie-detector test apparently will determine the fate of a Butler County day care center owner’s husband accused of molesting children.

Prosecutors and attorneys for 65-year-old Roger L. Young of Oakland Township worked out the unusual settlement Tuesday behind closed doors at the office of District Judge Lewis Stoughton in Chicora.

“If he passes the polygraph, the charges will be withdrawn,” said Russ Karl, a county assistant district attorney. “If he fails, he waives the charges to court.”

Young, who is free on $50,000 unsecured bail, is charged with two felony counts of corruption of minors and two misdemeanor counts of indecent assault.

State police in August arrested Young for allegedly inappropriately touching two girls, ages 3 and 4, at the Patti Cake Child Care Center in 2010.

Young’s wife, Patti, owns and operates the day care facility out of the couple’s home on Route 68.

Police filed the case after a 9-year-old girl in 2011 told a relative that Young had fondled her while she was seated on his lap in a rocking chair.

The county Children and Youth Services agency was notified of the allegations and launched an investigation.

Later, police obtained a search warrant to review video surveillance from the day care that allegedly showed Young assaulting the two girls identified as the victims in the criminal complaint.

Young is not charged in connection with the 9-year-old girl who made the initial allegations.

Karl acknowledged that he suggested subjecting Young to the polygraph based in part because of the limited physical evidence in the case.

The option was raised during discussions between attorneys on both sides who had gathered Tuesday afternoon for Young’s preliminary hearing at Stoughton’s office.

Karl said, “I have confidence in the use of the polygraph.”