200,000 bond set in child rapes

A wife says her husband used their money to buy drugs.
By TIM YOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
NILES -- The wife of child-rape suspect Norris A. Mills said her husband surrendered to police because he didn't have anywhere to go.
Regina Mills said Friday before her husband's arraignment in Niles Municipal Court that she had thrown her husband out of their Front Street home three times since 2005.
"I never left him," she said of her husband, before he appeared before Acting Judge John R. Garano on a charge of rape.
Judge Garano set Mills' bond at 200,000 and scheduled a preliminary hearing for 9:45 a.m. March 5.
The 200,000 is in addition to a 250,000 bond set earlier this week after he was charged by Bazetta Township police with rape. Mills is being held in the Trumbull County Jail.
In Niles, Mills is accused in the rape of a 12-year-old girl over a period of several months.
Bazetta police say Mills sexually assaulted a juvenile girl there.
Regina Mills, a waitress, said the last time she threw her husband out of the house was Sunday night. She said he took with him 1,500, a computer and her van.
On Tuesday, he turned himself in at Warren police headquarters, where he talked of sexually assaulting children in Niles and Bazetta, police said.
"He had nowhere to go. He had no clothes, no friends," she added.
Their family
Regina Mills said they have been married three years with sons ages 8 and 9.
She explained that she ordered her husband out of the house in 2005 because he didn't bring home his 600 paycheck. Then, in November 2006, she said he took between 600 and 700 to buy drugs.
"He said he was going to change his ways," Regina Mills said was the reason she'd let him back into their home.
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