It’s been a year since Mr. Kaczmarczyk was arrested in Taiwan and was returned to San Diego California to face trial for his alleged crimes. Since his return to the US he’s been held in jail in lieu of $4 million dollars bail! His trial is scheduled to start July 20, 2010. It was originally scheduled for February 24, 2010, but it was continued until July.
Here’s the most recent news regarding his predicament.
You can also read the full legal complaint against him here.
Mark Lee Kaczmarczyk, arrested in Taiwan on charges of child molestation at a San Diego day care center. (Reuters)
[quote=“San Diego Channel 6 News”]
New Charges Added in Daycare Sexual Abuse Case
SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors on Tuesday added multiple-victim and substantial sexual conduct allegations against a woman charged with her husband with molesting and sexually assaulting four children at the daycare facility they ran out of their Mission Valley apartment.
The special allegations mean Anita Kaczmarczyk, 44, faces up to 60 years to life in prison if convicted of four counts of child molestation and child abuse, said Deputy District Attorney Harrison Kennedy.
Her husband, Mark Kaczmarczyk, 58, faces the same charges and possible prison sentence as his wife if convicted.
Anita Kaczmarczyk is free on $150,000 bail. Mark Kaczmarczyk remains in custody in lieu of $4 million bail.
[strike]Judge Robert F. O’Neill set the couple’s trial for Feb. 24, 2010.[/strike][color=#FF0000]A continuance has been granted during the preliminaries and the trial has now been rescheduled for July 20, 2010.[/color]
According to evidence presented at a preliminary hearing in April, an investigation started in September 2007 when one of the alleged victims – who ranged in age from a few months to just over 2 years old – suffered vaginal injuries.
San Diego police Detective Tim Williams testified that a day after the 2-year-old girl’s vaginal injuries were discovered, he asked Mark Kaczmarczyk if he sexually assaulted the toddler and Kaczmarczyk responded, “Was she raped?” and “No, I would not do that,” and laughed.
A friend of the Kaczmarczyks told the detective that Anita Kaczmarczyk said the couple went to Carlsbad with the toddler to look at a home.
Williams said Mark Kaczmarczyk told him that while there, he lost sight of the girl for a moment and she ran back to him saying, “Owee, owee, owee.”
Mark Kaczmarczyk said he didn’t immediately tell his wife about the incident because he didn’t want to get in trouble with her, Williams testified.
During their interview, Mark Kaczmarczyk was asked direct questions but “danced around everything,” Williams testified.
Kennedy told a judge that the four alleged victims were all in good health and uninjured until they went to the couple’s daycare.
The alleged victims had “unique and very troubling injuries,” Kennedy told Judge Polly Shamoon.
“With each of them, it’s their genitals that are damaged,” Kennedy said.
One young boy had a black-and-blue bruise at the tip of his penis that couldn’t have been self-inflicted or caused by a toilet seat slamming on it as suggested by the defense, Kennedy said.
Kennedy said another young boy had a lesion between his testicles and his anus and a bloody diaper belonging to a third young boy was found at the defendants’ apartment.
Mother Testifies
The father of a 2 1/2-year-old girl noticed blood in her diaper after taking the toddler home from a husband-and-wife daycare center in Mission Valley, the child’s mother testified back in April.
Vanessa Park was the first witness to testify in a preliminary hearing to determine whether a trial will be ordered for Mark and Anita Kaczmarczyk, who are accused of molesting four young children at the daycare center they operated from their apartment.
Park, who shared custody of her daughter with her ex-husband Patrick, said he called her the night of Sept. 11, 2007, saying he had found blood in the toddler’s diaper.
“He told me she had just woken up from her nap and he opened up her diaper and there was blood in it,” Park testified.
Her daughter was fine before being dropped off at the daycare center operated by the 43-year-old female defendant, Park testified.
Upon hearing the news about the blood in the diaper, Park said she called her mother, who recalled Park having similar episodes as a child and recommended that she take the girl to the doctor in the morning.
Health officials recommended taking the child directly to Rady Children’s Hospital, where doctors showed the parents photographs of bruising and lacerations on girl’s genitalia, Park testified.
“I cried,” the mother said, recalling her reaction when she heard the news.
Child Protective Services personnel took the child to the Polinsky Children’s Center for three days before releasing her back to her mother.
Park’s ex-husband was ordered to have no contact with their daughter because police considered him a suspect in the molestation, the woman testified.
Park – who at the time lived in the same apartment complex as the Kaczmarczyks – said her ex-husband was out of town in the days leading up to the discovery of blood in their daughter’s diaper.
The witness said she was under the impression that the daycare business was Anita Kaczmarczyk’s and that the woman’s husband had just lost his job and was looking for new employment.
Park – a corrections officer at the Miramar brig – testified that Mark Kaczmarczyk told her how good she looked in a military uniform and made comments about his sex life with his wife.
The witness said Mark Kaczmarczyk, 58, told her that if his marriage continued down its current path, it might end up in divorce like Park’s.
At the apartment complex pool, he also told Park and her girlfriends that they were looking “very sexy” in their bathing suits, she testified.
The comments made her “uncomfortable when Anita was nearby,” the mother said.
Park said the defendant also asked her inappropriate questions about her sex life when she was married and told her that her ex-husband was a good- looking man.
Based on evidence developed in the investigation, a family court ordered Mark Kaczmarczyk into a Sexual Offender Treatment Program. The defendant participated in 12 group therapy sessions but stopped going without permission and was terminated from the program in January, according to authorities.
A subsequent investigation determined that Mark Kaczmarczyk left the United States and went to Taiwan last Dec. 8. He was taken into custody Feb. 15 and returned to San Diego on March 6.
They each face a maximum of 60 years to life in prison if convicted.[/quote]
