[July 01, 2011] Man accused of assaulting his children's babysitter Tweet Jun 30, 2011 (Charleston Daily Mail - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A South Charleston man has been charged with sexual assault after allegedly forcing himself onto a Charleston teen who had been babysitting for him. Mark Anthony Terry, 38, of Ridgeview Drive was arrested June 24 after the babysitter he and his wife hired reported that he sexually assaulted her. South Charleston Detective A.R. Gordon went to Charleston Area Medical Center's Women and Children's Hospital June 23 to speak to a 17-year-old girl who told investigators Terry assaulted her the night before, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court. The girl said she met Terry a year ago at the South Charleston Enrichment Center, a business his wife operates. She said she babysat for the couple at their Ridgeview Drive home the night of June 22 and that Terry woke her at about 3:30 a.m. June 23 telling her that he was taking her home. While in the vehicle Terry told the girl he had been watching her during her cheerleading practices and that "she had the face of a child and the body of a woman," according to the complaint. Instead of taking her home, the girl said Terry drove her to Montrose Elementary School on Montrose Drive. He parked in the parking lot and began smoking a marijuana blunt. He blew the smoke in her face and forced her to smoke the blunt with him. She said Terry got out of the vehicle, pulled her out by her arm then held her arm behind her back while he touched her. The victim told him to stop multiple times but said that Terry refused, telling her to be quiet and that he wasn't hurting her, the complaint said. Gordon got a search warrant for Terry's vehicle and found a paper napkin with hair, a small plastic bag containing suspected marijuana, pieces of a cigar wrapper, a piece of paper with a phone number written on it, a white cloth towel and a pornographic DVD inside the vehicle. Terry was taken into custody last Friday and charged with second-degree sexual assault and first-degree sexual abuse. He was released the next day on a $100,000 property bond. A preliminary hearing in the matter will be held at 1:30 p.m. today. Contact writer Ashley B. Craig at [email protected] or 304-348-4850. To see more of the Charleston Daily Mail, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.dailymail.com/. Copyright (c) 2011, Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), visit www.mctinfoservices.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]