A 37-year-old Blaine man has been charged with sexually assaulting two teenage girls from a summer camp in central Minnesota where he had worked as a counselor and program director for many years.
In a criminal complaint filed last week in Anoka County, Scott F. Fortier was charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct and using a minor in producing pornography.
Fortier remains jailed in lieu of $300,000 bail ahead of a Jan. 23 hearing. His attorney, Lawrence Rapoport, said Wednesday that he's not ready to comment on his client's behalf because there is a lot of evidence the prosecution has yet to disclose to the defense.
According to the charges:
In late December, a 15-year-old girl told law enforcement that Fortier, who had been a Circle R Ranch camp worker in Long Prairie previously but was there this past summer just to visit and hang out, invited her and a 17-year-old girl to his home in September.
The younger teen said the three went into his hot tub nude, and he touched the 15-year-old sexually after the other girl had left.
He and the 15-year-old then had sex in his house. She woke up the next day beside him in bed and couldn't recall the intercourse.
A law enforcement search of Fortier's home turned up videos taken on a smartphone showing his face, and the genitalia of him and the 15-year-old. A second video showed him having intercourse with her while she was motionless and quiet. Other videos and photos showed the girl in his garage nude and stumbling about.
