Timothy Iberer must have believed in the old expression "if at first you don't succeed, try try again", because police are alleging that the 27 year old convicted sexual offender broke into the bedroom window of a five year old girl at least three times before getting caught. The child's mother awoke around 3 a.m. on Sept. 10 to noises in her house and noticed her daughter's bedroom door, unusually, was closed. The mother entered, saw a man with a flashlight sitting on her daughter's bed, and she screamed. The intruder leaped out the first-floor window in the girl's bedroom , which authorities later discovered he entered by slitting the lower corners of the screen to unlock it, according to an arrest affidavit.
The affidavit said the position of the child when her mother entered her room indicated that the intruder planned a sexual assault. The child was not harmed, authorities said.
The girl told detectives from the prosecutor's office that the man had been in her room at least three times, including on Sept. 10. She said the man had touched her, shined a flashlight in her eyes, and carried a pocketknife at least once. The girl told her mother about one month ago that "the doctor" came into her room, but her parents told her it was a bad dream and did not report the incident at the time, the affidavit said.
Iberer was previously convicted and served a 3 year sentence (out of four years given) for molesting the 8 year old daughter of one of his former friends. He was released in 2006 after going through treatment at the state's Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel. (Sidenote, mark this as yet another case where sexual offender treatment clearly failed.)
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