Jun 27, 2016

56 year old man charged with alleged sexual assault of a 32 year old woman and burning her 9 year old son with a hot metal tube while camping

On 06-25-2016 at about 12:15 p.m. Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to contact a 32 year-old female at the intersection of Eel River Road and Main Street in Potter Valley, California.

Deputies contacted the 32 year-old female and learned she was reportedly sexually assaulted by Robert Michael Smith on 06-24-2016 while the pair were camping together along the Eel River approximately three miles east of Eel River Road in Potter Valley.

Deputies also learned the 32 year-old female's son had been physically assaulted by Smith.  Deputies learned Smith had burnt the female's 9 year-old son with a hot metal tube which had been heated by a camp fire causing a significant second degree burn on the boy’s body.

Deputies located Smith at a campsite located on the Potter Valley Logging Road near the Eel River.

Smith was arrested on the listed charges and booked into the Mendocino County Jail where he was to be held in lieu of $50,000.00 bail.

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