A Kalispell man already charged with failing to register as a sex offender has denied allegations that he took more than $8,000 from a developmentally disabled woman that he also assaulted and tried to smother.

Joshua Matthew Lepinski, 37, pleaded not guilty on Jan. 23 in Flathead District Court to felony abuse of the developmentally disabled.

A court document in the case states that the victim’s mother reported Lepinski had been living with her daughter off and on since summer 2012 and that her daughter successfully managed her own finances until Lepinski moved in.

A document in a different case says the two are married.

Since that time, the mother said, her daughter went into debt more than $8,000 for bad checks and loans instigated by Lepinski for his gain.

She also said her daughter told her Lepinski shoved her into a bathtub and caused her to twist her ankle, punched her in the face around Mother’s Day in 2013 and tried to smother her with a pillow in June 2013. The daughter allegedly told her Lepinski has hit her and head-butted her occasionally.

Lepinski also is accused of causing injuries to the woman that were left untreated and led to infection.

His new case for felony failure to register as a sexual offender alleges that Lepinski was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor on Sept. 16, 1996, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

A document in that case alleges that Lepinski had a registered address in Marion in October 2012, but  a compliance check in May 2013 showed he had moved out a month earlier and registered the new address only one day prior, stating he was living in Hungry Horse.

It states Lepinski then reported another move in June 2013, this time to Kalispell. The following month, an agent with the Montana Department of Criminal Investigation went to the home where he met the disabled woman’s mother, who said Lepinski and her daughter had lived there for a short time but he had moved out a month earlier.

If convicted of both his charges, Lepinski faces up to 15 years in the Montana State Prison and a fine of up to $60,000. He is currently incarcerated in the Flathead County Detention Center, where his bond in the failure to register case is set at $40,000 and his bond in the abuse case is set at $50,000.

His next hearing in the failure to register case is set for Feb. 28 and his next hearing in the bond case is set for March 5.