Martin is now a resident at a center in Allegheny County. Martin’s lawsuit claims prosecutors had started thinking about dropping the case a whole year earlier but decided not to since Southampton and nearby nursing centers wouldn’t allow him back due to the charges. “There’s some real angels in the Cumberland County Jail who looked after him,” Corcoran told the paper, noting the high amount of COVID-19 cases in the jail system.Įventually, the district attorney’s office dropped the charges after Martin had spent 22 months awaiting a trial. There were at least 13 pretrial conferences due to COVID-19. Navy veteran, was detained for the four months it took to be arraigned, the lawsuit states. Pennslyvania police charged Martin with involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and indecent assault. Martin had sex were incapable of consent,” Corcoran claimed. “The nursing home lied to the state police that the men with whom Mr.
Neither man lodged a complaint at the facility before Martin was arrested, according to the lawsuit. It also states that the man told the staff that he didn’t want Martin to perform the sex act because he was ashamed.Ĭorcoran said both men were able to give consent. The lawsuit claims the man only spoke to police after staffers at the facility compelled him to do so. The Inquirer reports that the man told the police he wanted Martin to stop but didn’t want him to be arrested. I don’t like men,” the man told authorities during an interview. Before his death, he told police that he had woken up to find Martin performing oral sex on him.
The other man, who was also an older adult, has since died. “Only because I hadn’t been with a woman in 21 years,” the man told police, according to the paper. The younger resident told police he had allowed Martin to perform oral sex on him. The supervisor then reported it to the police because the resident had suffered a brain injury.Ĭorcoran claims that police only were called because the sex was between two men. They reported the incident to a supervisor. Staff at the facility found Martin, a wheelchair user, performing oral sex on a 43-year-old resident. Martin performed sex acts on at least two men in 2019 while at the Southampton Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Shippensburg, Pa.