Trial Postponed for Alleged Penacook Child Rapist: Report

NASHUA, NH — A local man who is arrested in 2015 on a sexual assault charge, and indicted last year on four counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, tampering with witnesses, and sexual assault, all felonies, as well as endangering the welfare of a child, is reportedly attempting to consolidate charges into one court trial, according to a report in the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Steven Terry of Canal Street in Penacook was set to begin his trial in Hillsborough County Superior Court-South later this month but it has now been delayed until April after he requested that 16 other child rape and others charges against him in Rockingham County that allegedly occurred during the summer of 2015 in Auburn, be rolled into one case, according to court documents.

All of the charges stem from alleged sexual and marijuana interaction with an underage girl after a forensic examiner at the Child Advocacy Center interviewed the girl. Later, according to the indictment, Terry allegedly attempted to get the girl to provide false information.

Terry faces up to 20 years in prison for each of the child rape charges.

Back in August 2016, Terry’s bail conditions were changed so that he could have supervised access to his children, according to a Union Leader report.

Read the full report on unionleader.com.