His wife's bingo habit led him to molest two girls?

A man said he repeatedly sexually assaulted two young girls because his wife spent too much time playing bingo.

''I told her — she was going to bingo three, four times a week. I told her to cut down to once a week. She said if they had bingo every day, she'd go,'' Floyd Kinney Jr., 49, said.

''So, because your wife went to bingo, these children suffered?'' Northampton County Judge F.P. Kimberly McFadden asked Kinney on Friday. ''Yes,'' Kinney said.

Kinney pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated indecent assault. Rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault and numerous other related counts were dropped.

He explained he had acted as he did because of his wife's bingo habit, telling the judge his wife had complained, ''Oh, you can't give me money,'' and he agreed, saying she spent too much on bingo. Because of the bingo playing, Kinney said, his wife ''was never home,'' so he began molesting children as a way to lash out at her.

According to court records, Kinney molested one girl in Bethlehem over a five-year period beginning in 1992, when the girl was 12. The other girl, a 15-year-old, reported she was abused in 2005 and 2006. Kinney, who was living in a trailer, was arrested early this year and remains in the county prison. Article here.