A PUNTA GORDA MAN IS BEHIND BARS AFTER AUTHORITIES SAY HE FORCED A MOTHER TO WATCH AS HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER 12 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER THREE TIMES. CHARLOTTE COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY THEY WERE CALLED AT 8:30 WEDNESDAY MORNING BY THE CHILD’S GRANDFATHER. HE SAID HE WENT TO THE HOME OF 32 YEAR OLD JEROME NUBIN AFTER HEARING ABOUT THE ASSAULTS AND WAS CONFRONTED BY NUBIN SWINGING A BASEBALL BAT AT HIM. NUBIN ALLEGEDLY CAME OUT OF THE HOME AND BEGAN THROWING BRICKS, A LAMP, AND A CHILD’S SCOOTER AT THE GRANDFATHER. HE DID NOT HIT THE GRANDFATHER BUT HE DID DAMAGE A CAR. MAJOR CRIMES DETECTIVES MET WITH THE CHILD WHO SAID BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 3AM WEDNESDAY MORNING NUBIN SEXUALLY BATTERED HER IN HER MOTHER’S BEDROOM WITH HER MOM THERE. DETECTIVES SAID THE CHILD AND MOTHER WERE HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL WITH VERBAL THREATS OF VIOLENCE BY NUBIN, AND HE ALSO THREATENED THEM WITH THE BAT. NUBIN, THE MOTHER’S BOYFRIEND, THEN SLAPPED AND PUNCHED HER. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON NINE CHARGES, INCLUDING THREE OF SEXUAL BATTERY ON A 12 YEAR OLD, KIDNAPPING OF A CHILD AND DOMESTIC BATTERY. HE IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND IN THE CHARLOTTE COUNTY JAIL. THIS IS HIS 13TH BOOKING INTO THE CHARLOTTE COUNTY JAIL.
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