An Oak Harbor man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl is back in jail after he repeatedly violated the rules of electronic home monitoring, according to court records.

Last October, Jethro Maffel pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court to two counts of rape of a child in the first degree and one count of child molestation in the first degree.

During the preliminary hearing in October, Deputy Prosecutor David Carman asked that Maffel be held in jail on $250,000 bail. Judge Christon Skinner, however, ruled that Maffel could be released on electronic home monitoring, though he was held in jail on $25,000 bail until the monitoring was set up.

Maffel’s screening was completed on Oct. 21. He was sent home with a GPS-enabled monitor, but he didn’t follow the rules, court documents show.

On March 8, Carman filed a petition to modify the conditions of release that outlines 11 documented violations of the rules governing the program. Maffel repeatedly went to a restaurant outside his home area, went to Safeway without permission, missed scheduled check-ins with the jail, allowed the battery to go dead on the monitoring device and started a job without prior approval, the court document states.

At an April 1 hearing, Skinner revoked the electronic home monitoring option and ordered Maffel held in jail on $25,000 bail.

According to a detective’s report on the case, the parents of a grade schooler alerted police to sexual abuse allegations after the child told a relative about what had happened.

During an interview, the child told police that Maffel went into her bedroom when she was alone on three different occasions and sexually assaulted her, a detective’s report states. One of the girl’s parents confronted Maffel, who allegedly admitted that he did, cried and said he was sorry, the report states.

On Oct. 1, the detective arrested him at his workplace, a seafood processing plant in Anacortes. Maffel told police that he “messed up” and got kicked out of his family’s house, the report states.