Polygraph results provided to defense
By JOHN MANGALONZO
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A 56-year-old New London man accused of inappropriately touching a 5-year-old girl in 2006 is expected to stand trial next week unless a plea agreement is reached.
Steven Dale Laue is charged with a single count of lascivious acts with a child.
This week, prosecutors and Laue have received the charts, graphs and documents associated with a polygraph test administered by an agent of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, items which a district court judge recently ordered to be released.
The Department of Criminal Investigation, which administered the test, has a policy against producing such documents to anyone, including prosecutors, without a court order.
Michael Clark, Laue’s attorney, withdrew a motion where he asked a judge not to allow prosecutors to introduce evidence concerning a polygraph examination.
The allegations against Laue, who is free on a $13,500 bond, surfaced in April 2006 after Des Moines County Sheriff’s detectives accused him of inappropriately touching a 5-year-old girl.
The girl’s mother, who knows and lives close to Laue, told sheriff’s investigators her daughter told her Laue removed her panties and touched her genitals while he was watching the girl on March 31, 2006. The girl verified the statement upon talking with detectives.
The next day, the mother said she saw her daughter’s underwear was on backwards, so she asked the child what happened. That was when the child told her that Laue had put it on like that after he had touched her, according to court papers.
However, Laue told detectives the child took off her underwear when she got hot the day he was watching her, and he might have accidentally touched the child while he was putting her underwear back on.
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