Sex Offender Pleads Not Guilty in Strawberry Rape Case

A San Anselmo man accused of raping a 60-year-old San Rafael woman in a laundry room of an apartment complex in Strawberry plead not guilty in Marin County Superior Court on Friday. 

Leroy Anthony Clark, 36, is charged with rape, burglary, false imprisonment, intimately touching a victim against his or her will, dissuading a victim from giving testimony and a probation violation. 

The 6-foot-4 and 240-pound suspect appeared in Marin County Superior Court wearing what appeared to be a yellow jail uniform. He had a shaved head and a trimmed beard.

After he was arrested at his Buena Vista Ave. apartment in San Anselmo, he was booked into Marin County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. However, his bail was raised to $1 million two days later, according to the Marin Independent Journal.

In 2011, a jury acquitted Clark of raping and restraining an 18-year-old San Rafael woman, but convicted him of misdemeanor sexual batter for touching her breasts.

A preliminary hearing on the new case was set for Sept. 19. Clark could face a life sentence, according to the IJ.

The Mill Valley incident occurred earlier this month, when a San Rafael woman was forced into a laundry room when she was visiting family at an apartment complex in Strawberry. The attacker claimed to have a gun and assaulted her, according to the IJ.