Friday, October 24, 2014

Sex Offender Charged with Rape, Molestation

A 34-year-old sex offender was charged Oct. 22 in Sequoyah County District Court in Sallisaw with first-degree rape (victim under age 14) and lewd molestation. Andrew Thomas Edwards pleaded not guilty to the charges on Wednesday, and his case was placed on Judge Lawrence Langley's Nov. 5 disposition docket. Edwards is being held without bond in the Sequoyah County Detention Center in Sallisaw.

The affidavit filed with the charges allege Edwards, who was arrested Oct. 9, had child pornography on his phone, was having sexually explicit phone conversations with four girls who live in other parts of the county and who are believed to between the ages of 14 and 16, had a sexual encounter with the 7-year-old daughter of a woman he was dating (who did not know he was a registered sex offender), and liked to wander through a store in Sallisaw "to look for children." According to the affidavit, Edwards told investigators he made a sexual advance to a young girl in the store while her mother wasn't looking and who did not notice.

Edwards was on probation for a previous felony conviction for production/distribution of child pornography and lewd or indecent proposals/acts to a child in 2001. He was sentenced to prison and began the sentence on Nov. 27, 2001. He was released on Jan. 4, 2011, and rearrested on April 6, 2011, for failure to register as a sex offender. Edwards told investigators that he has been out of prison for about two years, and "confirmed he has been committing violations of his probation since that time." By Sally Maxwell, Senior News Director

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