Police: North Wales man arrested for indecent assault

A 36-yearold North Wales man is behind bars on indecent assault and several other charges after he allegedly attacked his wife late Saturday night, demanding she perform a sex act and then locking her in a room, according to police.

David Shannon Haddaway, of the 200 block of Elm Court, has been charged with first-degree misdemeanor indecent assault by forcible compulsion, first-degree misdemeanor terroristic threats, seconddegree misdemeanor counts of indecent assault without consent and false imprisonment, multiple counts of second-degree misdemeanor simple assault, and summary harassment in connection with the alleged May 20 attack.

In charging documents, North Wales police said that the victim went to Upper Gwynedd police headquarters shortly after midnight Sunday morning and was visibly scared and upset as she told police that her husband had assaulted her.

The woman said that earlier in the night she had been arguing with Haddaway, who had been drinking, and that he came downstairs naked, grabbed her by the hair and yanked her off a couch and onto the floor, held her down and told her to perform a sex act, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

The woman screamed at Haddaway to get off of her, which he eventually did, and she retreated to a bedroom and texted a friend to tell what had just happened; Haddaway then burst into the room, snatched the woman’s phone away and locked her in the room for approximately five minutes, after which he unlocked the door and the woman fled the residence with her child, according to court documents.

Police said they observed an abrasion on the woman’s cheek.

Haddaway was taken into custody a short time later and arraigned on the seven criminal counts later Sunday morning, then committed to Montgomery County jail in lieu of $20,000 cash bail.

A preliminary hearing is set for June 2.

Haddaway was arraigned on seven criminal counts then committed to Montgomery County jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.