An elderly Spokane-area man received jail time after running an ad in a newspaper for a secretary job and then trying to make an applicant have sex with him.

Monte L. Masingale, 77, of Greenacres, was given 180 days in jail with 150 suspended for the misdemeanor battery charge by Kootenai County Magistrate Scott Wayman on Friday. The remaining 30 days of the sentence are to be served immediately, according to the Kootenai County Prosecutor's Office.

He was being held at the Kootenai County jail Tuesday.

Wayman also gave Masingale one year of unsupervised probation.

"Isolating a victim and engaging in this type of conduct is dangerous and traumatizing," said Prosecutor Barry McHugh. "One experience like this can scar a person for life."

Masingale's attorney, Chris Bugbee of Spokane, couldn't immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.

The charge in this case stems from an incident reported to law enforcement officers on Oct. 14, 2012.

Masingale, owner of Greenacres Motors in Spokane Valley and Post Falls, placed an advertisement in the Spokesman-Review for a secretary.

The victim in the case received a ride to the Spokane Valley car lot for an interview, prosecutors said.

Masingale wanted to show her some recreational vehicles at his Stateline Village satellite dealership, because part of her duties would have included cleaning bedding in the vehicles prior to sale, prosecutors said.

Masingale soon mentioned he was looking for more than a secretary. He also was seeking a companion and he explained that his wife didn't mind if he found one, according to McHugh's office.

At the car lot he opened one of the RVs and walked back to the bed area and suddenly held the victim in a "hug" and began kissing her and then put both of his hands down inside her clothing, saying he wanted her to have sex with him, prosecutors said.

The victim refused, so Masingale took her to her home and told her to come back the next day if she wanted the first day's salary he promised her, prosecutors said. She called police instead.

Court documents show a separate battery charge against Masingale in Kootenai County from May 2012 was dismissed. In that case, he had been accused of allegedly forcing himself on another woman against her will, a criminal complaint said.

That woman told a Kootenai County Sheriff's Office investigator that she answered an ad seeking a secretary who would also clean RVs.

She said the interview lasted more than five hours, and Masingale allegedly asked questions about her height and weight, if she liked porn, and if she had a boyfriend.

While inside an RV, "Masingale then (allegedly) put his arms around her, and started rubbing against her, becoming obviously aroused," the sheriff's office investigator's report said.

In an August letter to the court, Masingale's lawyer Bugbee said his client had already been prosecuted for that incident. For it, he served two days of jail and was given 30 days of electronic home detention following his jail term.

"Mr. Masingale is a 77-year-old man with no prior criminal history," Bugbee wrote to the court. "He has lived in Spokane for more than 60 years; he has resided in the same residence for over 10 years."

Bugbee said Masingale has operated used car lots in Spokane and Kootenai counties for roughly 20 years, and previously operated a nursing home in Spokane County for 24 years.

According to allegations recorded in a Spokane detective's report, Masingale has been a suspect in other incidents involving job advertisements that allegedly lure women to his dealerships to exploit them for sex.

"(In) one incident a former employee of Monte's accused him of forcing her to perform oral sex on him or she would be fired and forced to walk back to the dealership," the Spokane investigator wrote.

Kootenai County deputy prosecutor Jim Reierson filed a document in court labeled "notice of intent to produce ... evidence at trial" that claimed Masingale allegedly "forced a female employee to have sex with him after taking her to Mexico and threatening to leave her there with no way back, and solicited another female employee to be his lover, later touching her buttocks in a back room at a car lot in Post Falls."

Reierson, who has handled the cases against Masingale, couldn't immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.