ROCKLAND, Maine — A judge set bail Wednesday afternoon at $50,000 cash for a 67-year-old Lincolnville man, with a lengthy violent criminal record, who was arrested Monday on a charge that he sexually assaulted a young girl in 2011.
Glenn L. Reed remains held at the Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset on a charge of unlawful sexual contact. The offense is a Class B crime that has a maximum jail sentence of 10 years in prison.
Judge Beth Dobson set the bail during a hearing held by video conference between Rockland District Court and the jail in Lincoln County.
The affidavit filed by the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office states that the investigation began in March when the Maine Department of Health and Human Services asked the Knox County Sheriff’s Department to interview the girl, now 14, who had written an essay in school that recounted being sexually assaulted by Reed during the summer of 2011.
Waldo County picked up the case and the girl told investigators that the assault occurred at a trailer in Searsmont. The incident occurred after Reed provided the victim marijuana, according to the affidavit.
When asked about the length of time between the crime being reported and the arrest being made, Waldo County Lt. Jason Trundy said Wednesday that there were a few issues that had to be followed up first.
The affidavit stated that Reed offered to take a polygraph test but on the day it was scheduled he said he believed he was having a heart attack and needed to see a doctor. He also told police that he does not recall knowing the victim but that he suffers from dementia.
Reed has a violent criminal record that dates back more than 30 years.
He was most recently convicted in 2013 of unlawful sexual touching, assault and disorderly conduct, and sentenced to six months in jail and one year of probation. He was convicted after going up to a 27-year-old store clerk in Belfast and telling her that he needed a hug. The young woman got out from behind the counter to give him a hug, and Reed sexually assaulted her by fondling her buttocks and grabbing at her breasts, according to a previous report in the BDN. The store’s video surveillance cameras captured Reed’s actions and police were able to locate and arrest him.
In July 1988, Reed was sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted in Knox County Superior Court of three counts of gross sexual misconduct and one count of unlawful sexual contact involving a 13-year-old girl. The girl testified at the trial that Reed committed the offenses, including one time when she had both arms in a cast as he was taking her to the hospital.
That conviction, however, was overturned in September 1989 by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court when a divided court ruled that the trial judge erred by allowing testimony from a psychologist who said the girl exhibited classic signs of having been the victim of a sex assault. The prosecution ultimately dismissed the charges when the victim would not testify again.
Reed was convicted in 1983 of rape involving a girl in Lincolnville. He served time in prison and is listed as a lifetime registrant on the Maine Sex Offender Registry for that offense.
He also was convicted of arson in the early 1980s. Then District Attorney William Anderson said in 1988 that Reed set the fire to collect insurance to pay for an attorney to handle his rape case. In addition, Reed was convicted of tampering with a witness by trying to get inmates at the Maine State Prison to have a witness change testimony in the arson case, according to Anderson back in 1988.