AUBURN – A man charged with kidnapping and attempted rape claimed he was praying over his victim, not trying to sexually assault her, according to court records.

David Parlin, 35, of 132 Third St., Auburn, was indicted Tuesday by an Androscoggin County grand jury on counts of attempted gross sexual assault, kidnapping, violation of condition of release and unlawful sexual contact. The charges stem from a Sept. 24 incident in Sabattus.

The 29-year-old woman told police she had been drinking too much at a Lewiston bar, court documents state. Afterward, she passed out in the back of her car that was being driven by a female friend. She later woke up in Parlin’s car.

She screamed and fought with Parlin and demanded that he stop his car and let her out, according to a police affidavit.

Parlin refused and drove fast to a wooded area, she told police. He pulled over his red Chevrolet Cavalier and pulled her by the arm out of the car. She ran away into the woods. Her vision was poor because her eye glasses had been left behind at her car, records state.

Parlin had called the woman’s boyfriend on a cell phone. Parlin told the man he had his girlfriend, according to court records. He said he was “a good man, business man, and not to worry,” the boyfriend said. The woman said she shouted in the background that she was not “OK.”

The woman ran into a commuter parking lot near a credit union on Route 126 in Sabattus. Parlin pinned her to the ground and lifted her skirt, she said, according to a police report.

Meanwhile, the woman’s friend had tracked her and Parlin to the credit union and found Parlin lying on top of the woman, the friend told police.

She yelled at the man, who was wearing an orange running suit, to stop. Parlin immediately stood up and told her: “I’m a Christian and I was praying over her. She’s blind,” the record states.

The woman’s boyfriend had driven to the scene of the alleged assault. Police also showed up.

In Parlin’s car, police found one of the woman’s shoes, along with a live cat and a dead cat.

Parlin told police he discovered the woman staggering along Route 126. She was blind and lost, he reportedly told them.

According to court records, he put her in his car to take her to the hospital, he said. He then pulled over his car because the woman was so frantic and had struck him several times. He was later found on top of her because he was trying to help her up after she had fallen to the ground, he said.

Parlin, who listed his occupation as a car reconditioner when booked at the Androscoggin County Jail, is charged with three felonies and one misdemeanor. He has been held at the jail since Sept. 24 in lieu of $20,000 cash bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Androscoggin County Superior Court.

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