ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, March 12, 1996 TAG: 9603120073
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH
SOURCE: Associated Press
A teen-age girl testified Monday that a man who claims he's a vampire began taking off her clothes in his bedroom and raped her during a visit three days before Christmas, ignoring her pleas to stop.
``I was scared,'' the sobbing 16-year-old said at a preliminary hearing for Jon C. Bush, a 26-year-old heating and air-conditioning maintenance man. ``He was on top of me and holding me down.''
Another girl, 15, told Juvenile and Domestic Relations Judge Woodrow Lewis that Bush sodomized her on Jan. 6. However, she couldn't remember an alleged similar incident at a New Year Eve's party at Bush's house.
``Do you remember what happened?'' Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Mike Moore asked her several times. ``No,'' she said. She admitted she had been drinking at the party.
Lewis dismissed one charge of carnal knowledge of a minor against Bush but sent a second carnal knowledge count and the rape charge to a grand jury.
Both girls spoke barely above a whisper in the standing-room-only courtroom. Lewis prevented defense attorney Linda Mitchell from going into their backgrounds.
He also denied bond for Bush, who has remained in custody since his arrest Jan. 17.
Bush, who lived with his mother, told police he headed a secret clan of vampires, recruiting high school boys who were asked to bring girls into the clan's activities. Investigators charge that what began as a role-playing game got out of hand.
Bush told police that girls who wanted to join the clan could choose either to be bitten by him or perform a sex act.
Detectives said Bush would wear fake fangs and dress in dark clothing, painting his face white and his lips and nails black.
Neither girl who testified at the preliminary hearing mentioned vampire activities.
The girl who said she was raped acknowledged she didn't say anything to two friends who were with her at Bush's house and didn't tell police until weeks later. ``I just couldn't talk about it,'' she said.
The judge set a May 7 trial date.
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