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Sexual abuse charge brings indictment
Thelma Grimes/San Pedro Valley News-Sun
Jack Samuel Belin of Tucson was indicted by a Cochise County grand jury Thursday on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault and aggravated sexual assault for an alleged attack on a Benson woman at Safeway.
Interim Police Chief Paul Moncada said Belin, 34, working as a repairman at the grocery store on Aug. 14, allegedly lured a 29-year-old Benson woman, who is mentally disabled, into a back room where he proceeded to "fondle her and take sexual advantage of her."
Moncada said the woman's parents reported the alleged assault to the police that same day.
"After the parents reported it, we were able to identify the suspect fairly quickly," Moncada said. "We tried to get him in here for questioning immediately, and at least give him the opportunity to tell his side of it. But he refused."
Moncada said the Cochise County prosecutor's office gave them the go ahead to arrest Belin on one count of sexual abuse, aggravated assault and child/vulnerable adult abuse on Sept. 8. Justice of the Peace Joe Knoblock set his bond at $500,000.
The kidnapping, aggravated assault and aggravated sexual assault are felonies.
Belin remains in Cochise County Jail in Bisbee, authorities said.
Jack Samuel Belin of Tucson was indicted by a Cochise County grand jury Thursday on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault and aggravated sexual assault for an alleged attack on a Benson woman at Safeway.
Interim Police Chief Paul Moncada said Belin, 34, working as a repairman at the grocery store on Aug. 14, allegedly lured a 29-year-old Benson woman, who is mentally disabled, into a back room where he proceeded to "fondle her and take sexual advantage of her."
Moncada said the woman's parents reported the alleged assault to the police that same day.
"After the parents reported it, we were able to identify the suspect fairly quickly," Moncada said. "We tried to get him in here for questioning immediately, and at least give him the opportunity to tell his side of it. But he refused."
Moncada said the Cochise County prosecutor's office gave them the go ahead to arrest Belin on one count of sexual abuse, aggravated assault and child/vulnerable adult abuse on Sept. 8. Justice of the Peace Joe Knoblock set his bond at $500,000.
The kidnapping, aggravated assault and aggravated sexual assault are felonies.
Belin remains in Cochise County Jail in Bisbee, authorities said.
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