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Parolee Jailed in ‘Vicious Sexual Assault’ of 7-Year-Old Girl
By Tom Bolton, Noozhawk Executive Editor | @tombol | 
7:11 p.m. | Published on 09.22.2012 5:58 p.m.
A wanted parolee is facing multiple felony charges stemming from what investigators described as the “vicious sexual assault” of a 7-year-old girl, Santa Barbara police reported Saturday evening.
Jesse Paul Martin, 40, of Santa Barbara, who was arrested earlier this month, was being held without bail on a previous warrant at Santa Barbara County Jail, said Sgt. Riley Harwood, a department spokesman.
Officers were called to a Westside residence the morning of Sept. 14 to investigate the alleged sexual assault of a child, Harwood said.
They quickly learned that Martin, the suspect, had an outstanding no-bail, felony warrant for violation of probation in an auto-theft case, Harwood said. Officers entered the residence and took Martin into custody, he said.
Subsequent investigation, including a forensic medical evaluation and an interview of the young girl by a psychologist, revealed that Martin had been dating the child’s mother for two weeks, and had been staying at her home.
The alleged assault occurred around midnight, when the victim and a younger sibling were present at the home, Harwood said.
Martin sent his girlfriend to the store, Harwood said, and while she was gone allegedly scratched the girl’s arm with a small power tool, and then sexually assaulted her.
“The victim thought she was going to die,” said Harwood, adding that Martin allegedly told the girl he would kill her if she told her mother.
When the victim’s mother returned home, she noticed that Martin’s demeanor had changed, and he appeared agitated and distraught, Harwood said. However, she felt this might have been because Martin recently had a friend die.
At approximately 4 a.m., Harwood said, Martin woke the victim’s mother, and revealed that he was a pedophile and sex offender and intimated that she needed to check on her children’s welfare.
She woke her children, and noticed that the 7-year-old had a facial injury, Harwood said.
The woman hastily left the residence with her children, and drove them to safety a short distance away. She then asked the girl what had happened, and the child confided to her mother that she had been sexually assaulted.
In addition to his warrant, Martin was booked on the following felonies: oral copulation by force, victim under 14 years of age; lewd act upon a child under 14 years of age, by force; sexual penetration with a foreign object (digital penetration) by force, victim under 14 years of age and with threat of future retaliation; and intimidation of a victim with force or threats.
He also faces misdemeanor charges of cruelty to a child and use of a controlled substances.
Bail for the latest charges was set at $100,000, Harwood said.
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» on 09.22.12 @ 10:44 PM
Sick—Hang him high.
Liberals will want him set free..
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» on 09.23.12 @ 01:27 AM
Thank liberals who think that monsters like this can change for repeat offenders like this on our streets. One more child victimized by Martin who should have never been released. WHEN WILL WE LEARN? Hang him high and let us stop kidding ourselves believing that monsters can be rehabilitated.
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» on 09.23.12 @ 05:02 AM
As usual, I see comments stating that liberals would let this man go free, or other such ridiculous statements. Where some people get that idea I don’t know, because liberals - like conservatives - want to see an end to such horrible crimes as described in the article.
Oh wait - I think I know 2 reasons why!
(1) They believe all those vile lies that Limbaugh, Fox TV, and other sites tell them.
(2) They have a need to hate. So if they don’t have proof, they make up false reasons so that they can justify that need.
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» on 09.23.12 @ 09:08 AM
@ Proud Liberal: Apparently you were busy finger painting while the rest of us were learning about California’s Rehabilitative Prison Model promoted by liberals. These are the policies promoted and continued by liberals that allow innocent children to be victimized again and again by monsters like Martin.
This has zero to do with Fox or Rush Limbaugh but if it makes you feel more comfortable to continue attempting to distract from the real issue be my guest, you aren’t fooling anyone. I don’t hate Martin (thought his victims might), but Monsters have no place in our society.
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» on 09.23.12 @ 09:24 AM
How wonderful that on a Sunday morning Overtaxed and Interloper thoughts include hostility toward liberals. How about sympathy for that child and the trauma the family suffered? Oh right, that makes me a left leaning screaming Liberal. Nope! I’m a clear thinking Republican.
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» on 09.23.12 @ 09:59 AM
Another quality justification for the death penalty.
Bail of $100K? Someone needs to revoke the law license of the judge that set this one.
It is time to start cleaning out death row for jerks like this felon.
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» on 09.23.12 @ 12:20 PM
Jolly Joy please explain to us how you can come to this conclusion. I clearly stated that I am horrified to learn of the crime and unlike the rehabilitation crowd want to prevent further crimes by locking up these monsters up forever who quite clearly cannot be rehabilitated- and that is showing sympathy for this victim and prevent additional victims.
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» on 09.23.12 @ 12:42 PM
Yup blame the Liberals. How do we know Jessee wasn’t molested as a child by a Conservative priest? Cmon, keep the slander and libel in your fantasies. No one likes a Child rapist.
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» on 09.23.12 @ 02:08 PM
Anyone who hurts a child! Should NOT get released! Monsters; I don’t know his history but if he admitted he was a pedophile and sex offender and intimated that she needed to check on her children’s welfare. OMG…Who in their right mind allowed him to be released?
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» on 09.23.12 @ 11:13 PM
Counterpoint please stop trying to cloud the discussion with such nonsense as trying to inject the politics of a offender into the discussion. Offenders are offenders regardless of their political agenda. The argument that liberal criminal rehabilitation has completely failed at the cost of additional child victims is the issue.
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