DEVILS LAKE - The attorney for a man accused of raping a woman and leaving her naked and bleeding on a township road with her 2-year-old child says he probably will seek to move the trial because of the attention the case has received here.

Jared Brown, 25, of Devils Lake, is charged with four counts of gross sexual imposition, one count of terrorism and one count of reckless endangerment. He has pleaded not guilty. He faces another court hearing Sept. 29.

Defense Michael Klemetsrud said he will not discuss details of the case, but he likely will try to move the trial.

"Devils Lake is a small community, and rumors fly," said Klemetsrud, who sits on the School Board with Ed Brown, a farmer who is the defendant's father and the School Board president.

Northeast District Judge Donovan Foughty set bail at $200,000 cash, and earlier this month refused a request to lower it, saying the charges are "extraordinary in their violence."

Authorities said the woman was attacked on the night of July 4 or early on July 5.

Investigator Mark Hendrickson said he was told by the woman that she walked about a mile to the nearest farm after being left on the roadside naked with her child, the Devils Lake Journal reported, citing a court affidavit. The investigator also said the woman told officers that Brown was upset after she told him she was pregnant with his child.

Hendrickson said in his court affidavit that tennis shoes taken during a search of Brown's home in Devils Lake matched a print at the scene.

The victim was released from a Fargo hospital about two weeks ago after two operations, said Penny Retzlaff, a friend of the family. Retzlaff said late last week that the woman did not want to talk, but that she was not pregnant.

"She's really just trying to heal," Retzlaff said.

Brown's father posted the money for his bail July 18, the Devils Lake Journal reported. Brown, who is living with his parents, must wear an electronic monitor with an alcohol sensor. He has been ordered not to enter Devils Lake except for court hearings.

Earlier, Brown's only criminal conviction was a misdemeanor delivery of alcohol charge when he was 22, court records show.

Retzlaff is organizing an Aug. 6 rummage sale to help pay the victim's medical expenses. Fliers around Devils Lake, a community of about 7,000 people, are promoting a fund-raiser for the "victim of the Fourth of July crime."

"I think the community is more in shock that this person could do such a horrible thing to her, and be out of jail," Retzlaff said. "If he is the guy, you know, God help him. Because I think if they would really do what they say they're going to do uptown, I think he'd already be dead."