adapted by o.a.g. from NewsChannel 36 and Associated Press

June 15, 2009

A Kannapolis, NC man accused of arranging his wife's rape on Craigslist watched as she pushed a knife away from her attacker, then told her to shower afterward to destroy evidence, according to a police document released Wednesday.

The husband faces charges including first-degree rape, and is still in jail on $200,000 bond at the Cabarrus County Detention Center. The Associated Press does not generally identify victims of sexual assault and is not naming the man to avoid identifying his wife.

Police say the husband used Craigslist to find an attacker. Investigators discovered that the victim's husband had responded to at least two posts on craigslist.com "to arrange for someone come to his home and have sex with his wife using some type of scare tactic," the release states. Investigators believe he arranged this incident without the knowledge or consent of his wife.

She was asleep in bed with her husband on the night of May 31, 2009, with their two children asleep elsewhere in the house, when she woke up to find a man standing at the end of the bed with a knife. He threatened her and demanded $30,000. Then, the suspect forced her to disrobe and began raping her. Her husband stood by watching. She said she even threw the knife towards her husband when the attacker put it down, but he did nothing. When the attack ended, she told investigators her husband told her not to call police and to take a shower. She called 911 instead.

Investigators said the woman told them that her husband's sexual fantasy "is having sex with her and another male." She told police he wife told investigators she'd found pornography on their computers, and had found "e-mail communication where he was requesting someone to please her." It's unclear whether those requests were sent to Craigslist. Police have seized two computers and a cell phone with photos on it from the couple's residence.

The husband was previously convicted of indecent exposure in 2008 in Virginia. Court records show he answered the door of a hotel room in Chesterfield County for a pizza he'd ordered, and then twice dropped the towel he had wrapped around his waist. The charge is a misdemeanor, and does not require that he register as a sex offender or stay away from children.

The search warrant executed on the couple's home also shows that it was an in-home day care.