Stanley Martin Saint-Clair - Repeat Sex Offender

Sarah Tofte of the Human Rights Watch says 25% of all sex offenders
re-offend within 15 years

A Bladensburg man was sentenced to 100 years behind bars Wednesday after being found guilty of molesting a 13-year-old girl over two years while he was on probation for previous sex offenses.

Prosecutors said Stanley Martin Saint-Clair, 62, had served time for molesting an 8-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl and was on probation when he met cash-strapped Nicole Thompson of Forestville, the mother of the girl he most recently molested.

The 13-year-old victim — she was 9 when Saint-Clair first molested her — testified not long before jurors convicted Saint-Clair of multiple rape and assault charges after less than an hour’s deliberation, according to Prince George’s County Assistant State’s Attorney Donine Carrington.

Prince George’s Circuit Judge Michael P. Whalen sentenced Saint-Clair in front of the jury.

Saint-Clair gave Thompson money, and the two often stayed the night in either her home or his, Carrington said. Thompson had her suspicions that Saint-Clair was molesting her daughter, Carrington said, but Thompson wasn’t certain until she found her daughter naked and asleep in Saint-Clair’s bedroom in late May.

Thompson told police, according to court documents, that she made her discovery while searching for her daughter after learning she might be sexually involved with Saint-Clair. She alerted police right away. According to court documents, Saint-Clair first raped the girl in July 2005 while she was in his care, an act he repeated multiple times through May.

Saint-Clair’s criminal history, Carrington said, suggests an affinity for children around the age of 9, and that he used the opportunity presented through his relationship with Thompson to cultivate his relationship with her daughter.

“It’s just nasty,” Carrington said.