Authorities in the Beehive State claim that a Virginia man is imprisoned in Utah after engaging in a sexually predatory game of truth or dare with a group of young boys.
According to the Saratoga Springs Police Department, 42-year-old Robert Paul Walker is charged with five counts of lewdness with a child, one count of interfering with a witness, and one count of failing to register as a sex offender.
According to the police, the father of a few of the accused victims knew about the defendant’s problematic history of committing such crimes.
According to an affidavit of probable cause that Salt Lake City-based ABC station KTVX was able to obtain, the defendant was taken into custody this week.
According to police, a number of victims, aged between 10 and 12, attended a party that Walker threw. According to witnesses who spoke to police, the defendant allegedly pushed the lads to play truth or dare at the party, with the game allegedly becoming out of hand.
Walker also asked the victims to participate in a different game with him dubbed “Police: Touch Your Body Challenge.” Sexual actions and clothes removal were purportedly part of this game.
According to a Utah Department of Public Safety registry, the defendant is a registered sex offender because of a 2005 conviction for sexual battery in the Old Dominion.
Walker’s position is mentioned in the probable cause document, which also claims that the father of two boys was fully aware of the defendant’s past.
According to the affidavit, that father informed authorities he had known Walker for around nine years. The father claimed that the defendant disclosed his criminal background as a sexual offender at that period. Additionally, the father informed authorities that he thought Walker had a problem with seeing videos of child sexual abuse. The father continued by saying that Walker would sometimes pull his kids out of school, according to the police, and that the defendant had been living with his family intermittently since April.
Authorities claim that Walker recently acknowledged to the father that he had been grooming the two children. The father allegedly told investigators he now regretted trusting the defendant and allowing the registered sex offender to be around his children.
After the inappropriate games, Walker allegedly implored some of the victims not to tell anyone what happened or he would go to jail, according to court documents cited by Salt Lake City-basedCBS affiliate KUTV.
The lewdness charges are class A misdemeanors; the registration violation and the witness tampering charges are felonies in the third degree. Walker faces the possibility of just under 15 years in prison if sentenced as presently charged.
The defendant is currently being detained in the Utah County Jail without bail.
Authorities requested no bail because they believe Walker may be a flight risk.
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