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COLFAX – A Rosalia man is accused of raping a girl for six years.

Kaleb M. Hafner, 23, of Rosalia, was charged with the rape of a child in the first degree in Whitman County Superior Court on Feb. 7. He pleaded not guilty on Feb. 11.

Hafner was arrested on Feb. 5 in Rosalia after a Whitman County Sheriff’s Office instigation.

He is accused of repeatedly raping a girl from when she was 5-years-old until she was 11-years-old when he turned 18. Hafner allegedly told a deputy he had numerous consensual sexual encounters with the girl until she told him no in 2018, according to police record...