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Salesman Accused Of Attacking Woman In Her Home

A judge Thursday ordered no bond for the man accused of attacking a woman inside her home. Mount Dora police said he used his job as a magazine salesman to target the victim.

Charles Hartman was booked early Thursday morning and it was a scary night for one Lake County resident who said a knock on her door turned suddenly violent.

"He grabbed me by my neck and forced his way in and I wrestled him to the ground and started screaming, 'Help me! Help me! Help me!'" explained the unidentified victim.

The victim, who didn't want to be identified, had no trouble identifying her attacker. She said it was Charles Hartman.

"I know he was going to rape me. Why else would you come into somebody's house?" she questioned.

The door-to-door magazine salesman was arrested shortly after the attack and, while police don't have proof of a sexual assault, they want Heartman off the streets.

"We are going with burglary of an occupied dwelling. We don't have any proof of a sexual assault, but there were two small children in the house who were terrified," said Lt. Roger Children, Mount Dora Police Department.

Along with arresting Hartman, the police dragnet picked up some of the other door-to-door marketers, telling them to either leave town or go to jail. The salesman work for Integrity Sales of Arizona. Their boss described the men as something other than upstanding citizens.

"We pull them off the street from doing drugs, homeless shelters and get 'em out there. We teach them responsibly. We teach them structure," said Ryan Atkins, Integrity Sales.

Those were lessons perhaps lost on Heartman.

"Right when he grabbed my neck he said, 'If you do anything, I am going to hurt you,'" the victim said.

She said she used some Tae-Bo moves to fight the attacker off and police didn't have too difficult of a time finding Hartman. Evidently, he left his shoe at her house.

Hartman is being held on a burglary and battery charge. Mt. Dora police said they don't have proof of any sexual assault. Thursday morning, a judge ordered no bond for Hartman because he called him a flight risk.
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