Posted on 05/21/2010 7:06:16 AM PDT by Born Conservative
SHICKSHINNY – A man deceived a foster child into having sex with him for two years, telling the girl the Mafia was watching his family, according to charges filed.
State police at Shickshinny charged Mark David Brown, 41, of West Butler Street, Shickshinny, and Statesboro, Ga., with sexually assaulting the then-teen girl from 2004-06.
The woman recently came forward with allegations that Brown, as her foster father when she was a child, scared her with a story that the Mafia was watching his family and had given him certain instructions. She said one of the instructions included Brown having sex with her, according to the criminal complaint.
Brown was arraigned Thursday in Wilkes-Barre Central Court on charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault. He was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $25,000 bail.
The charges were filed May 4 after several people, who were then teen girls, separately reported the same claim by the woman that Brown gave them marijuana and alcohol.
According to the criminal complaint:
The woman said she was placed with Brown and his wife as a foster child when she was 8 years old in 1999. She described her childhood as normal until she turned 14, when Brown began acting more as a friend than a foster parent.
She said Brown took her out of school when she became a freshman in high school and made her and other teen girls work for him selling newspaper subscriptions in the Shickshinny area.
After selling subscriptions, she alleged, Brown provided her and other girls with marijuana and alcohol. He made up a story, telling the girls the Mafia was watching him and had given him certain instructions to follow, and if he didn’t follow them the Mafia would kill his family, the criminal complaint says.
State police said the alleged Mafia instruction was to have Brown get the girl to perform lewd sexual acts on him.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 16 before District Judge John Hasay in Shickshinny.
THe man should fry. These people are not curable.
Lemme get this right.
In Schickshinny, a foster parent tells a teen girl she must perform sex acts or the Mafia will kill the foster parent’s family?
Truth is stranger than fiction. Any author who tried that in any story would be lucky to get the “creative effort” returned. And, if returned, the editor would certainly send it freight collect as an expression of editorial valuation of the submission.
I think it would be fair to put this guy in prison with real mafia convicts.
So stupid it sounds like a made up story. ...And how many girls did he convince with this?
>THe man should fry.
I disagree; rope is so much more versatile...
>These people are not curable.
Agreed.
How do these people get away with these crazy stories. It’s like the guy who was doing breast exams, or was it pelvic exams, in a rental storage unit.
And this shows the level of experiance of a 14Y/O - this guy had been “dad” for several years.
Why waste rope BTW, a $0.30 round will do the job just was well.
Young teens can be very gullible. A guy put in a position of a father figure can really take advantage of that. Sick, just sick.
He was a foster parent. It doesn’t say what type of foster care it was? The girl may be mentally retarded, which would also explain the gullibility.
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