The Latest: Clinic attack suspect was accused of sex assault
Source: Associated Press
The Latest: Clinic attack suspect was accused of sex assault
Updated 1:23 am, Tuesday, December 1, 2015
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Police records show that the suspect in the deadly attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in South Carolina in 1992.
Fifty-seven-year-old Robert Lewis Dear was arrested in North Charleston, South Carolina, on a charge of criminal sexual conduct after a woman said he put a knife to her neck, forced her into her apartment and sexually assaulted her after hitting her in the mouth. No records show how the case was ultimately handled.
Investigators said Dear told them he knew the woman and had consensual sex with her.
Little information about Dear's background has been released, and documents in the Colorado Springs case have been sealed.
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