WARREN — Jurors in the sexual assault trial of Danny M. McFadden deliberated late into Thursday evening but failed to reach a verdict and will reconvene this morning.

Jurors are set to resume at 9:30 a.m. in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court before Judge Cynthia Westcott Rice after they ended deliberations around 7:30 p.m. Thursday without consensus on the 28 charges.

The 76-year-old faces 17 counts of first-degree felony rape and multiple counts of gross sexual imposition.

The four-day trial featured testimony from a 12-year-old girl who said McFadden, a man she’s known her entire life, molested her starting at age 5 and escalating over seven years to include oral sex and threats to displace her and her siblings if she disclosed the abuse.

She described incidents occurring two to thr

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