Their lawyers argued unsuccessfully for lower bonds yesterday. Judge Bradford J. Ward spent several minutes on the bench reading through the new arrest warrant, while Gault, clad in a dark green jumpsuit, talked quietly with his lawyer, Gerald Klein.
Klein said he was surprised by the charges because he expected any new allegations to come from police in West Hartford, where the girl was found.
"We're just going to take it as it comes," Klein said. "I hope we can go to future court dates without my client being arrested each time."
He also said he was surprised to learn of the DNA evidence.
The arrest warrant filed yesterday indicated the girl told investigators that she had an abortion on May 1 at Planned Parenthood in West Hartford, but would not identify the father. Police obtained a search warrant to test tissue from the fetus. The tissue had been sent to a lab in Massachusetts, a standard procedure.
A message seeking comment was left with officials at the Connecticut chapter of Planned Parenthood.
"I thought that when a woman had a termination of pregnancy, that that was the end of it, so to speak," Klein said outside court. "But, apparently they have the fetus."
The Associated Press is not identifying the girl or her parents to protect her identity because of the alleged sexual assaults.
Gault has denied having sexual contact with the girl, who ran away from home in June 2006, when she was 14, and moved in with Gault, a man who had worked with her stepfather years earlier, authorities said.
Gault was arrested with the two women who lived with him in West Hartford -- Ann Murphy, 40, and Kimberly Cray, 26 -- on June 6, the day the girl was found.
The kidnapping charges were added because authorities accuse Gault of keeping the girl under his mental and emotional control and of moving her to Florida, Vermont, and North Carolina. According to the warrant, the girl also stayed at the home of Cray's father in Hebron under the guise of being Gault's niece.
The girl told investigators that during the year she spent with Gault, she had not been to school, changed her hair color four times, and used an alias.
