COUDERSPORT — A Coudersport man has been jailed on allegations he gave two juveniles alcohol and had indecent contact with one of them.
Clinton James Watson, 36, of 101 Robin Lane, was arraigned Monday before Magisterial District Judge Annette Easton on charges of aggravated indecent assault without consent and aggravated indecent assault by forcible compulsion, both second-degree felonies; indecent assault by forcible compulsion and two counts of corruption of minors, all first-degree misdemeanors; indecent assault without consent, a second-degree misdemeanor; and two counts of furnishing liquor to a minor, third-degree misdemeanors, court records stated.
Court records said overnight from Dec. 22-23, 2016, Watson provided two teens — a 15-year-old male and a 16-year-old female — with liquor at a Sweden Township residence by going out to his vehicle and handing it to them through the window of a back bedroom. He returned to the bedroom with them and allegedly let them drink until they were vomiting.
Watson followed the girl to the bathroom, not leaving when she told him to, and, when she went to leave, he grabbed her arm and made her watch him urinate.
In the bedroom, he allegedly touched her breast, making her uncomfortable, and she started to have an asthma attack and wanted a parent. Watson advised against getting a parent, and she calmed down. He told her he could help with depression and “he could kill the both of them in a vehicle accident,” court records read. She began to cry, and he “told her that he could make her stop crying and began to rub her crotch.”
At one point in the night, Watson told her not to go to her parents because he could shoot her dad in the head with the shotgun from the living room, court records stated.
Watson was committed to Potter County Jail in Coudersport in lieu of $100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 17.
This is not the first time Watson has faced criminal charges in Potter County.
Court records indicate that on Feb. 17, 2005, Watson pleaded no contest to charges of third-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child, and on April 6, 2005, he was sentenced to 12 ½ to 25 years in state prison for the death.
According to news reports filed at that time, he was accused of killing the 2-year-old daughter of his then-live-in girlfriend.
