NEW HAMPSHIRE
Concord Monitor
By Maddie Hanna / Monitor staff
August 23, 2012
When she testified last year to being raped and impregnated as a teenager in 1997 by a married man who attended her Concord church, Tina Anderson told jurors she also had been sexually assaulted by her stepfather years earlier.
Anderson said at trial that her mother and her pastor at Trinity Baptist told her to forgive her stepfather, Daniel Leaf, for the abuse, and he never faced charges in connection with her allegations.
That changed last week, when a Merrimack County grand jury handed down two aggravated felonious sexual assault indictments charging Leaf with assaulting Anderson between 1990 and 1992, starting when she was 10 years old.
The indictments – which don’t name Anderson – accuse Leaf, 52, of Tilton of intentionally touching the girl’s genitalia with his penis in Concord during different time periods. Leaf is a sex offender listed on the state’s registry with convictions in 1993 for felonious sexual assault and indecent exposure.
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