A Lancaster County jury today convicted a former city police officer of raping and sexually assaulting three different underage girls years ago following a three-day trial.

The jury found Andrew Scott Selby, of Lancaster city, guilty of one count of rape forcible compulsion, one count of rape of a person less than 13 years of age, three counts of sexual assault and one count each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a person less than 13 and statutory sexual assault after about four and a half hours of deliberation.

“I want to commend the jury on their verdict, and I would like to recognize that we wouldn’t be here without the resilience of the victims who had the courage to speak the truth about what they endured at the hands of the defendant. We hope that this verdict brings peace to all the victims and that it contributes to a path of healing for each and every one of them,” said District Attorney Heather Adams. “I also want to recognize that the decision to move forward with this case was due in large part to the skill, dedication and tenacity of the prosecution team, Detective Higgins and Assistant District Attorneys Lapp and Haverstick. It was their tireless commitment to justice that ultimately secured this guilty verdict.”

Senior Judge William P. Mahon, who presided over the trial, will sentence Selby at a later date. Following the reading of the verdict Senior Judge Mahon set Selby’s bail at a combined $1.5 million as he awaits his sentencing.

Before excusing the jury, Senior Judge Mahon offered them his “sincere thanks” for “fulfilling your duties as citizens.”

Selby, 55, raped and sexually assaulted the victims, who he encountered in his job as a city police officer in the 1990s.

Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Lapp, who prosecuted the case alongside Assistant District Attorney Fritz Haverstick, told the jury that Selby “abused the trust and authority placed in him” by the community to sexually assault underage girls for years.

“He was someone who they were supposed to be able to trust,” Lapp said, but “the trust that they put in him put them in a position where they felt they couldn’t fight back.”

Lapp argued that Selby’s behavior toward each of the victims showed a “common plan” to meet girls in his capacity as a police officer, earn their trust and then “abuse that trust in order to satisfy his own sexual desires.”

One of the victims testified that she saw Selby as a “guardian” and “protector” when he was assigned to investigate an incident in which she was raped in December 1997, when she was 16, only for Selby to bring her into his city home where he himself raped her.

“He was a cop. He had a gun,” the victim testified. “It was a very harrowing experience.”

Investigators began looking into Selby in early 2024 when the same victim contacted Lancaster City Bureau of Police for details on the initial rape investigation Selby had been assigned to, which had resulted in no charges being filed. The victim told Detective Jessica Higgins, who filed the charges against Selby, that Selby had also raped her. 

Another victim testified that she was in a sexual relationship with Selby when she was 11 years old in the mid-1990s. A third victim, who was 15 at the time, testified that when Selby attempted to have sex with her against her will in 1995 that she tried to convince him to use a condom, only for him to instead use a plastic sandwich bag as a form of protection.

Throughout the trial the Commonwealth showed that the victims were able to recall key details of the inside of Selby’s then-home and vehicle, which they wouldn’t have known had they not been inside. One victim recalled precise details of Selby’s shirtless appearance in her testimony.

The Commonwealth also demonstrated that the three victims – all of whom are strangers to one another – had nothing to gain by accusing Selby other than receiving justice.