Father headed to court in beating of man accused of assaulting son

A Nesquehoning father accused of pistol-whipping and assaulting a man he claims sexually assaulted his children is headed to Carbon County Court.

All charges against William Morales, 41, of Stock Street, were bound over to court Wednesday following a preliminary hearing in front of Magisterial District Judge Casimir Kosciolek.

Police were called to Morales’ home for an assault on Aug. 7.

Mark Mead, 30, told police he was being held at gunpoint by Morales for two hours and that he was assaulted several times by being pistol-whipped, kicked in the stomach and violated with the handle of a mop.

Morales told police that the reason for the incident was because he had found Mead sexually assaulting his 1-year-old and 5-year-old while he was helping the family move.

The affidavit of probable cause states Morales said that he had asked Mead for his help moving and that he had left to carry out items. When he returned, Morales said he found Mead with his 1-year-old in a very compromising situation and subdued Mead. The 5-year-old told his parents that Mead also made him touch him.

“(Morales) made me get on the floor face down and he held me at gunpoint while he called his friends, who he called the ‘cleanup crew’ on the phone,” Mead testified on Wednesday. “He kicked me in the face and the forehead and the side of the ribs. I was crying. He also shoved the handle of a mop in my rectum.”

In the affidavit, police noted that Mead had multiple lumps and swelling on his head and contusions and abrasions, as well as pain in his abdomen.

Morales faces charges of aggravated assault, possession of a prohibited firearm, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, simple assault and criminal attempt of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse-forcible compulsion.

Mead faces charges for the alleged sexual assault of the children.

Charges against him include one count each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, rape of a child and corruption of minors; and two counts each corruption of minors, indecent exposure, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault of a person less than 13 and indecent assault of a person less than 16. He was initially charged with statutory sexual assault.

Mead waived his preliminary hearing in front of Kosciolek on Wednesday.