By - Associated Press - Wednesday, February 24, 2021 FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Felony charges have been dropped against a North Carolina man who was beaten and threatened at gunpoint after a younger man found him in a bedroom with the younger man’s two small children. Mark Anthony Stanley, 61, of Burlington, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in Spotsylvania Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on Oct. 28 of two misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure and received a suspended sentence, The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg reported. Stanley had been charged with two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and assault. Stanley said he took the deal because he wanted to put the case behind him. He had gone to Virginia to visit relatives.