Man accused of abusing girl

PALMER — A 19-year-old man is facing seven felonies over allegation he sexually abused a 13-year-old girl.

According to a report from Alaska State Troopers Investigator Shannon Fore, the abuse was reported May 21 when the girl’s older sister called to say her younger sister had told her about the abuse.

The girl told troopers that Nathan Eric Olrun Mack had first abused her before she and her family moved to Fairbanks in summer 2011 and resumed the abuse when they moved back.

Fore writes that on May 23, the girl’s father made a call to Mack in which he admitted to all of the acts the girl said he’d done to her. That same day, Fore brought Mack to the troopers post in Palmer.

“Nathan was cooperative and remorseful and again admitted to the above-mentioned sexual acts and stated that (the girl) did tell him no and that he felt really bad about what he had done,” Fore wrote.

Fore’s report details those acts and troopers believe at least some of them add up to first-degree sexual abuse of a minor — the most serious such charge a person can face, which, as an unclassified felony, is potentially punishable by 99 years in prison.

As of Saturday afternoon, Mack was being held at the Palmer Correctional Center in Sutton. On Friday, his bail was set at $100,000 and he was ordered to find a third-party custodian to watch him before he can be released from jail.