Alleged Massena Foot Licker Charged With Harassment

MASSENA - A Massena man charged with jumping in a stranger's bed and licking a stranger's foot has been released after posting $1,000 bail.

Massena Village Police charged Barry K. Hill III, 20, of 158 Water St., Massena, with two counts of second-degree criminal trespass and a single count of second-degree harassment following an investigation that took place in the early morning hours Thursday.

Police said Hill reportedly entered two different apartments at a complex at 2 Willow St. at shortly after 3:30 a.m. Thursday.

A 25-year-old Massena woman said she woke up at 3:40 a.m. and found a stranger in her bed. "I woke up to my foot being licked. I then woke right up and realized there was some strange guy in my bed. I said out loud, 'What are you doing?'" she said in the statement she signed for police.

She told police the man then got out of bed and asked her about her apartment number and inquired if she was Darrel's sister.

"The guy then stood by the door of my apartment and would not leave. He then asked if he could give me a foot job. He said it was nothing sexual. I told him to leave again. The guy then left at this point," she recalled in her statement to police.

A second woman, a teenager, told police she had an encounter with the same man a short time earlier in her apartment.

She said she had a knock on her apartment door, and the male inquired if it was her mother's apartment. She said she told the man her mother lived in a different apartment at the complex.

The teenager said the man asked if he could come into the apartment and she denied his request, noting she had school the next morning. She noted she had almost fallen back to sleep when she heard the man inside her apartment. She said she was convinced she had locked her apartment door before going to bed.

She told police the man, whom she identified as Hill, had offered to pay her $100 if she would allow him to suck her toes.

He was arraigned by Massena Village Justice Eric J. Gustafson, posted $1,000 bail and was released.

Hill had been charged with second-degree harassment, fourth-degree criminal mischief and endangering the welfare of a child in December 2009. Police said at the time Hill had grabbed the mother of his nearly five-month-old daughter during a domestic dispute and choked her, struck her head on the bed's headboard and grabbed her pointer finger and wrist and pulled it backwards while she was holding the baby.

Hill also allegedly intentionally smashed several photograph frames during the argument. The woman, then 18, told police the argument started when Hill nearly rolled over onto the baby that was in bed with him.

He was charged with second-degree criminal contempt just over a month later when he allegedly violated a stay away order of protection that had been issued at the time of his initial arrest.

Police said they had gone to Hill's residence to pick the Massena man up on a warrant issued for an alleged violation of his release under probation supervision and the mother of his child and the baby were at his home.

He was adjudicated as a youthful offender in village court on those charges.