Apr 25, 2018 3 min read

The wife of a man charged with raping an 11-year-old is accused of recording her own sexual acts with a girl and then sending them to her fugitive husband while he was on the run from police last summer.

Cheyenna Perry, 35, of 197 Hartley Road, Monongahela Township, told state police she was “under duress from her husband” when she sent photos and videos to Matthew Perry before U.S. marshals arrested him in Morgantown, W.Va., last August, according to the criminal complaint.

Cheyenna Perry faces more than 50 felony counts alleging she instructed the child to pose in various sexual positions while taking videos and photographs.

On Tuesday, state police received a forensic analysis of a computer seized from Matthew Perry when he was arrested last year. Multiple photos and videos were found of a girl in a “naked provocative state,” court documents indicate. Police said Cheyenna Perry appears in one video with the child and is seen at the end shutting off the camera.

It is unclear if the images depict the same victim Matthew Perry is accused of raping. Police said the files were sent in July while he was evading arrest.

Cheyenna Perry admitted during an interview with state police Tuesday she took the videos and photos of the 11-year-old girl and that she directed the juvenile to perform the acts while recording them. She then sent the files to her husband, “who was currently evading police for his active felony warrant,” court documents state.

Matthew Perry, 39, was charged last June with rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and corruption of minors.

When investigators asked Cheyenna Perry why she did not contact police about the videos and photos after her husband was arrested last August, said said “she was embarrassed and things were going better since his apprehension.”

Matthew Perry has been undergoing mental health treatment at Torrance State Hospital near Blairsville since November after he was determined to be incompetent to stand trial.

His first scheduled preliminary hearing in August was postponed after his attorney expressed concerns he was refusing to bathe and was placed on suicide watch at Greene County jail. Perry was also not communicating with his attorney. At his competency hearing in November, Greene County Judge Lou Dayich attempted to speak with Perry, who was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair, hunched over, trembling and nonverbal.

He is accused of an ongoing sexual relationship with an 11-year-old, allegedly beginning in the summer of 2016 and continuing through March 2017. The girl reported the assaults occurred while she stayed overnight with a friend, state police said. Perry allegedly told the girl how to pose for “provocative” pictures he would take of her on his cellphone, court documents said.

Cheyenna Perry is charged with eight counts of felony involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, 15 counts each of knowingly photographing or filming a child performing sex acts, corruption of minors and disseminating photos or film of child sex acts, along with eight misdemeanor counts of indecent assault of a person less than 13.

Her preliminary hearing has been scheduled for 2:30 p.m. May 7 before District Judge Lee Watson. She is being held at Greene County jail on $100,000 bond.

Her husband’s preliminary hearing has been consistently rescheduled to see whether he can be restored to competency. That hearing is tentatively scheduled before Watson for 1 p.m. July 26.