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Man accused of sexually assaulting boy in Westminster restaurant set for court
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WESTMINSTER, Md. (Map, News) - A man who goes to trial Monday on charges of molesting a 7-year-old boy in a restaurant bathroom says he is not criminally responsible, because of a mental handicap.
Jasen Anthony Weigman, 23, is accused of grabbing the boy from behind one afternoon in April 2006 in the bathroom of Ruby Tuesday’s in Westminster.
He covered the boy’s mouth and forced him into an empty stall, according to charging documents.
Weigman, of Westminster, commanded the child to take off his pants and underwear, telling him not to yell for help or he would be hurt, the documents say.
Weigman then performed oral sex on the boy, according to charging documents, and is charged with perverted practice, false imprisonment, second-degree assault and sex offenses and will appear Monday in Carroll County Circuit Court. Psychologists expected to be called to testify for each side will likely decide whether Weigman is convicted or if he is found not criminally responsible.
When Weigman released him from the bathroom, the boy ran crying to his father, told his father about what happened and pointed out Weigman, documents show. And after police arrested Weigman, he admitted to the assault and sex offenses, documents show.
“The DNA profile obtained from [the boy’s underwear] is approximately 14 millions times more likely to have originated from Jasen Weigman than from an unknown individual in the Caucasian population” and “51 million times more likely to have originated from Jasen Weigman than from an unknown individual in the African American population,” according to a state police forensic report.
Neil Blumberg, a Towson psychiatrist, will reportedly testify that a mental handicap kept Weigman from understanding what he was doing.
Prosecutors have failed to get copies of Blumberg’s evaluation of Weigman.
msilvestri@baltimoreexaminer.com
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5:18 PM MST on Sat., May. 3, 2008 re: "Man accused of sexually assaulting boy in Westminster restaurant set for court"
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he was just a sick freak of nature that should not beable to live anymore what if the table was turn and some one did that to him how would he fell then
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