The suspect in the rape last week of an 11-year-old girl in Greenfield had been released early from a lengthy sentence in Oklahoma after he was jailed for sex assaults there.

Clyde E. Haidle Jr., 46, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 12:30 p.m. today on charges of rape, indecent assault, false imprisonment, child endangerment, corruption of minors and two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.

Mr. Haidle is being held on $150,000 bail in the Allegheny County Jail.

He was arrested by county sheriff's deputies who found him hiding under floor boards at his residence shortly after the girl reported the assault.

Police said Mr. Haidle accosted the girl after she got off a school bus, and he forced her into an abandoned house where the sex assault took place.

Authorities in Oklahoma and court records there show he was convicted in 1986 of attempted rape and sodomy, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison.

His sentence was suspended, then revoked following his arrest less than a year later in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, on charges of forcible rape, robbery with a dangerous weapon and concealing stolen property.

He also was convicted of escaping from the Ottawa County Jail, and sentenced to seven years in prison.

All of his sentences ran concurrently with the 25 years he got for the rape case. However, because of good behavior, he was allowed to reduce his time by one day for each day served. He was released in 1999 after just over 12 years.

Pittsburgh police previously said they didn't know if Mr. Haidle had a record for sexual assault.

The case has become a lightning rod for Pittsburgh City Council President Doug Shields, who believes something should be done about abandoned houses.

Yesterday, he introduced legislation that would have building inspectors review all of the abandoned houses on Ivondale Street, where the incident took place, and consider demolishing them.

The Department of Public Works would study whether to buy out the remaining residents and address the landslide conditions there, plus decide whether to repair the Anthony Street steps.

"We're talking about four, five or six houses right now," he said of the abandoned properties in question, including 446 Ivondale, where the alleged rape occurred.

He said the conditions led to a situation in which a young girl was raped. He wants a preliminary vote today on the legislation, after discussions with public safety and public works officials.

Conditions on Ivondale were the subject of an April 16, 2007, special council meeting, but Mr. Shields said the needed action wasn't taken.