A King County Superior Court judge recently dismissed the case against a Federal Way man whose fiancée claimed she caught him allegedly masturbating over a quadriplegic woman he cared for last July.
Daniel T. Satterberg, King County prosecuting attorney, ordered the court to dismiss the case without prejudice on June 16 after the reporting eyewitness — the man’s fiancée — married the defendant and recanted her testimony since the case was filed. Satterberg also noted that the 28-year-old victim was also physically unable to testify.
Anthony Kenneth Martin, 51, was charged with one count of indecent exposure in July 2014 , after his then-fiancée and her daughter called police about the alleged crime.
His then-fiancée reported she returned to the man’s home after eating dinner and she walked in on him allegedly standing over the partially naked victim, masturbating, according to the police report.
He was the woman’s main caregiver, who is quadriplegic and “mentally understands conversations as a child would,” the report continues.
Martin looked at his then-fiancée in surprise and told her he had been in the bathroom and thought he heard the victim fall, the report states. He allegedly zipped up his pants and walked outside, which his then-fiancée told police was a strange thing to do if he had indeed run from the bathroom.
His then-fiancée told police she “wasn’t going to let it happen again where she acted ignorant and did nothing while [the victim] was abused.”
According to court documents, she also called 911 about another incident when she claimed she observed Martin positioned behind the disabled victim with her buttocks by his groin area. However, she retracted her statement after Martin allegedly told her she would go to jail too if she told police anything.
The woman told police she was terrified of her then-fiancé and of the possibility of going to jail so she complied.
Because the woman lived with the suspect, Martin received $5,000 a month from the state to care for her, as well as supplemental security income because of her brain damage.
Martin is a former King County Metro Access bus driver, a bus system that drives around the disabled.