Joseph Owen Mehrer - He didn't mean to molest those girls - it was the DREAMS fault

He said he thought he was dreaming about a woman, but he admits he may have, in fact, been fondling a child.

That was one of the excuses 51-year-old Joseph Owen Mehrer offered being being arrested and charged with molested two sisters – ages 9 and 11 – on Thursday.

Yet, it was the girls, who said they were asleep when he touched them at his home last weekend.

Mehrer told the detective that he didn’t remember touching the girls. He said he drank two beers and took a hydrocodone tablet.

He did say he wrote an incriminating letter and sent it to the girls' home, and said the girls do not tell lies.

He also claimed he was having a dream about a woman, and said it was possible he may have been acting out with the girls.

He was charged with capital sexual battery on a child younger than 12 and lewd

and lascivious molestation. He now also has a violation of probation for felony battery.