Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 6, 1993 TAG: 9303060197
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
$50,000 BOND FOR MAN ARRESTED ON SEX CHARGES
A former Blacksburg man charged with seven sexual offenses against a girl he counseled at St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital was released on $50,000 bond Friday evening.Saladin Kenyatta Corbin, 27, who now lives in Washington, faces charges of attempted rape, attempted forcible sodomy, two counts of aggravated sexual battery and three charges of taking indecent liberties.
All involved the same girl, who was under age 13 and was a patient at the hospital.
Corbin is scheduled to be arraigned March 17 in Circuit Court.
A grand jury brought the indictments against Corbin on Feb. 16, but Circuit Judge A. Dow Owens ordered them sealed until Corbin's arrest. They were unsealed Thursday.
Corbin's attorney, Mike Barbour of Pulaski, said Corbin was picked up on a fugitive warrant and brought back to Pulaski County at midnight Monday.
Barbour argued during a hearing Friday morning in Pulaski County Circuit Court for a reasonable bond. Barbour told Owens that Corbin teaches in the Washington area and has not tried to hide from authorities.
Corbin teaches psychology at Northern Virginia Community College's Loudoun County branch in Sterling and at the Rockville and Germantown branches of Montgomery College in Maryland, Barbour said.
Corbin was in a doctoral program at Virginia Tech when the offenses he is charged with allegedly occurred.
"Mr. Corbin has no criminal record whatsoever, anywhere," Barbour said as he asked the judge to allow his client to continue to live in Washington.
Doug Schroder, assistant commonwealth's attorney, told the judge he was concerned about the court's limited power to bring Corbin back to Pulaski County from out of state if he does not return for trial.
Schroder said the girl was less than 13 years old at the time of the alleged offenses in January and February 1992. The girl, who does not live in Pulaski County, was apparently being treated for depression, the prosecutor said.
After allegations against Corbin surfaced, Schroder said he was "involuntarily disenrolled" from the doctoral program once St. Albans dismissed him as an intern and called Tech officials.
Corbin was aware that some allegations had been made against him, Barbour said, and he did leave a forwarding address when he moved from the New River Valley, indicating he was not trying to hide from authorities.
Judge Owens set a $50,000 surety bond and said he would allow Corbin to return to Washington on condition that he sign a waiver of extradition and have no contact with the alleged victim or other young girls until the case is resolved.