Nashua police photo Scott Harley, age 38, of 2 Clocktower Place, Nashua

NASHUA – In mid-November, about four months after they launched an investigation into allegations that two young girls had been sexually molested by Nashua resident Scott Harley, police detectives said they attended the older girl’s forensic interview at a state Child Advocacy Center.

Six years old at the time, the girl “was very quiet … hard to understand at times” during the interview, police wrote in their reports. But she did say, police said, that “he put his finger in my privates,” a reference to the man who allegedly molested her and the younger girl, who was then 5.

Police also said the older girl, next to a sketch she had drawn to illustrate the allegations, “drew a sad face … and said she was sad and scared.”

The interview was one of several involving the girls, CAC therapists and police that were part of what turned out to be a nearly 9-month police investigation that culminated Monday evening with the arrest of Harley, 38, of 2 Clocktower Place, Apt. 425, on two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault.

Harley was booked and later taken to Valley Street Jail in Manchester, where bail was set at $100,000 cash,

police said.

At his arraignment Tuesday morning, a Nashua district court judge modified Harley’s bail to $100,000 cash or surety pending a probable cause hearing, which is scheduled for 8:15 a.m. April 9 at the Nashua court.

If Harley makes bail, he is ordered to have no contact with the girls or family members, according to the bail order.

Police, in reports and affidavits filed in court, said they were notified around 2 p.m. on the Fourth of July last year of the allegations, and by 3 p.m. detectives had begun a recorded interview with the girls’ mother.

She told police that the girls had said things that she interpreted as potential sexual abuse, which police said prompted the scheduling of the initial CAC interview.

Shortly after the November interviews, police said, they arranged an interview with Harley, who initially denied the alleged assaults.

But once the detectives began citing details that the girls provided during their interviews with CAC therapists, Harley

“began to breathe heavy, as though he was going to vomit,” the reports state.

They said they took a break, during which Harley’s “head was slumped forward and he was taking several deep breaths … he made the comment that he felt he was going to get sick,” police said.

Harley continued to deny the allegations, and a short time later ended the interview, police said.

Dean Shalhoup can be reached at 594-1256, dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_DeanS.