Incest news report

Local News: Man allegedly raped 12-year-old relative in xxxxxx eight years ago By Joe Johnson published Sunday, August 25, 2013 Criminal justice reporter An xxxxxxxxxx man is facing incest, statutory rape, child molestation and other charges for allegedly having sex with a relative beginning in 2005, when the alleged victim was 12, according to recently filed court documents. The alleged victim, now 20, did not come forward with allegations against the relative until late last year. According to court documents, authorities apparently obtained enough evidence to arrest 36-year-old resident xxxxxxxxxxxxxx four months ago. There is no statute of limitations for prosecuting child molestation cases. The arrest on April 22 was not publicized at the time by police because it was made through warrants and there was no arrest report. But on Aug. 12, the xxxxxx police Sex Crimes Unit detective filed the results of searches conducted on the Facebook accounts of xxxxxxx and his alleged victim. The detective was looking for Facebook user profile information, photographs and messages, and the searches yielded nearly 10,000 pages of information, according to the search warrant property inventory sheet filed in xxxxxxx County Superior Court. When applying for the search warrant, the detective submitted a sworn affidavit in which he outlines how he believes an incestuous relationship came to light. In November 2012, the alleged victim’s mother found a list of names titled “My Regrets.” XXXXXX’s name was at the top of the list, and when the mother asked her daughter about it she disclosed “details about the first time (she) and xxxxxxxx had sex when (she) was only 12 years old” and when xxxxxxx lived in xxxxxxx, according to the affidavit. The alleged victim filed a report with police several days later. When following up, the Sex Crimes Unit detective interviewed the alleged victim, who said she and xxxxxxx had numerous sexual encounters that continued after she turned 16, according to the affidavit. The alleged victim’s mother in January told the detective about how several years earlier, a message regarding the sexual relationship between xxxxxxx and her daughter had been accidentally sent to the alleged victim’s boyfriend, according to the affidavit. The mother told the investigator that “the family only knew of the adult sexual relationship between (her daughter) and xxxxxxx, and no one at the time knew that such a relationship began when (her daughter) was younger.” The mother said that during the time frame her daughter claimed to have had sex with her older relative, she “did spend isolated time with xxxxxxx,” the detective states in his affidavit. The detective then tracked down the alleged victim’s former boyfriend, who told about how between 2009-10 he found private messages from xxxxxxx on the alleged victim’s Facebook page that were “suggestive” and were about xxxxxxx and the woman “hooking up”, according to the affidavit. Pretending to be the woman, the boyfriend sent messages to xxxxxxx asking what he was talking about, to which the suspect responded, “Bring some wine (and) condoms like we used to,” according to the affidavit. Based on the affidavit, Western Judicial Circuit Chief Judge signed the search warrants and they were served on Facebook on Jan. 29. XXXXXXX was arrested three months later on warrants charging him with two counts each of incest, statutory rape, child molestation, aggravated child molestation and one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes. The suspect remained in jail for two weeks, until the judge granted him a $25,000 bond with the conditions he have no contact with the alleged victim, any female under 18, or his own children unless under the supervision of one of xxxxxxx’s parents. The part of this story that got to me was that the mother stated the family knew of the adult sexual relationship that her daughter and the man was having. From the idea of the story, it seemed the man was her immediate cousin or uncle, at least, if not her brother. But the girl's mom knew her daughter was having sex with him????