Crucible man charged with raping two girls
CARMICHAELS – A Crucible man was arrested earlier this week on various sex charges, including rape, following allegations that he sexually assaulted two girls in separate cases spanning 16 years.
Leonard L. Glendenning, 49, of 431 E. Fifth Ave., was arrested Tuesday and charged with three counts each of rape, statutory sexual assault and indecent assault, four counts of aggravated indecent assault, two counts of endangering the welfare of children and one count of corruption of minors.
State police said Glendenning was charged with sexually assaulting the two girls in his home, one who reported that she was first assaulted in 2000 and several times thereafter, and the other who reported that she was assaulted on numerous occasions between 2010 and 2015.
According to the criminal complaint filed in the office of Magisterial District Judge Lee Watson, state police were called on Aug. 16 to investigate a report of a rape. During an interview on Aug. 23, one of the alleged victims, who is now an adult, told police that Glendenning first raped her in in his home in 2000, when she was 13 years old, and that he sexually assaulted her “more than once,” the complaint states.
The victim then told police that she was concerned that a girl known to her had also been sexually abused by Glendenning, and that what he allegedly did to the second victim “is exactly what happened to her,” the complaint states.
Police then interviewed the girl, who reported that she remembered being 10 years old when Glendenning first assaulted her and that he had assaulted her on numerous occasions after that. She also told police that she “made herself forget about the incidents,” the complaint states.
Following arraignment, Glendenning was placed in Greene County Jail in lieu of $50,000 straight bail.
His preliminary hearing has been scheduled to be held before Watson on Thursday, Sept. 8 at 1:15 p.m.