An Anniston man alleged to have sexually abused his 5-year-old daughter now is facing an additional charge of first-degree sodomy.
The suspect, 33, was in the Calhoun County Jail on Thursday with bond set at $100,000 cash. He was arrested on an outstanding warrant at a location on the first block of West 11th Street Wednesday afternoon, according to an arrest report from Anniston police.
The suspect also was charged with first-degree sexual abuse in February, according to a warrant for his arrest. He was arrested on that charge Feb. 1 and released from the Anniston City Jail on a $15,000 bond Feb. 2, according to state court records.
An Anniston City Jail employee said Friday that the suspect had also been transferred to the county jail on the original charge. A Calhoun County Jail worker said Friday that he had no record of the suspect being in the jail prior to Thursday.
Anniston police Capt. Allen George told The Star in February that the abuse had taken place in a hotel room in Indiana, in a friend’s Oxford home, and in a foreign country, where the suspect had been serving as a missionary. It lasted from June 2013 to January, according to a warrant for the suspect’s arrest.
The suspect was arrested after he told a friend with whom he had been staying that he had been molesting his daughter, who is now 6. The friend told another person about the abuse and that person reported the suspect to Anniston police, investigators told The Star in February.
The suspect is set to appear in court April 7, according to his arrest report.
Editor’s note: The Star ordinarily withholds the identities of those accused of sex crimes unless they plead guilty or are convicted, because of the stigma that can accompany such charges even after an acquittal. In this case, The Star also is withholding the name of the accused to avoid publicly identifying his daughter.
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