By: Jennifer Baileys - Jbaileys@Fox41.com
A Southern Indiana Census worker sits in jail, charged with brutally raping a mentally handicapped woman.
Now deep concerns from within the neighborhood where police say it took place.
Connie Fry said she was asleep in one room and her daughter in another and had no idea someone was in her home attacking her daughter.
"At one time she told me he was putting his hand over her mouth and he was choking her," Fry said as she was describing the attack on her daughter.
She said the attacker is 39-year-old Daniel Miller. Fry said he is not a complete stranger, but someone she had met before.
"Three days prior to the night he got here he came from the Census Bureau." That day - Fry said Miller was dressed professionally and was polite only taking her information for the Census.
Officials with the U.S. Census Bureau confirm Daniel Miller is a numerator, someone employed to go door to door gathering information.
At around 4:30 Saturday morning, police said Miller broke into a home at 5602 South State Road 60 in Pekin, Indiana and brutally attacked and raped Fry's 21-year-old daughter.
"She had blood shot eyes and bruises on her shoulders and her arms."
Fry said her daughter is handicapped and could not have defended herself. "She's got Cerebral Palsy and mild retardation."
Fry said it was easy to figure out who attacked her daughter because he left behind plenty of evidence.
"He left all his clothes, his wallet and everything in the bedroom. He went out of here with her pajamas and her panties."
Sheriff's deputies arrested Miller at his apartment on North Eastern School Road in Pekin across the street from Eastern High School.
"Sometimes we're here by ourselves because my husband works out of town," said Evelyn Wisman Fry's neighbor.
Even though police say they have arrested the right person, neighbors along Indiana 60 in Pekin are concerned that someone trusted by the government to go door to door is now charged with such a serious crime.
"That's scary for him to know exactly who's in the home," Wisman said.
Miller is charged with rape and burglary and is in the Washington County Detention Center on a $150,000 full cash bond.
Census officials tell Fox 41 a background check is performed on all employees and anyone with a criminal history is not hired.
