CHARLESTON — A man out of jail on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping and attempted murder has been rearrested in connection with another alleged assault and kidnapping.

Walter Clayton Pate was arrested late Dec. 10 by the Charleston Police Department, charging him with first-degree assault and battery, first-degree burglary and kidnapping. A police report was not immediately available detailing the circumstances of his arrest.

Pate’s attorney, state Rep. Gil Gatch, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Marcia Leuck, a paralegal, told The Post and Courier the assault and break-in happened at her daughter’s home. Pate allegedly had followed her daughter home from an Avondale bar on Dec. 9, waited until she fell asleep and then broke into her daughter’s West Ashley home

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