Brother of Arkansas State Rep. charged with rape of minor in Poinsett County

POINSETT COUNTY, Ark. (WMC) – The brother of Arkansas State Consultant Milton Nicks has been charged with raping an adolescent in Cross County.

The Poinsett County Sheriff’s Workplace arrested and charged 64-year-old Rickey Nicks on one rely of rape on Friday after a possible trigger listening to was held on the Poinsett County District Court docket.

Nicks is the previous superintendent of Earle Faculty District in Cross County. He resigned in 2017 and was changed by Richard Wilde.

The cost comes simply over a yr after the assault, which occurred at Nicks’ dwelling the place the sufferer and her younger brother had spent the night time.

The affidavit reveals the small print of the case, however many gadgets have been redacted. The sufferer’s relation to Nicks is at the moment unknown.

On July 27, 2021, from her hospital room, the sixteen-year-old sufferer instructed officers that as she was laying on the mattress that morning, Nicks walked into her bed room and “began touching her toes.” After kicking her toes, she mentioned he lastly left the room.

She reported that he later returned and resumed touching her toes. She mentioned the touching progressively turned extra inappropriate earlier than Nicks raped her.

He then received up and left the house, she instructed police.

Sooner or later after the alleged rape, the teenager referred to as her mom. She mentioned that she instructed her mother on the cellphone that “it” had occurred, the affidavit reads.

The mom then picked each youngsters up from the house and drove the sufferer to the hospital to be examined. It was there that police met the sufferer.

A sexual assault examination needed to be postponed till the subsequent day at a unique hospital as a result of sufferer’s age.

Within the meantime, that very same night, a search warrant was carried out on the dwelling the place the alleged crime occurred. After taking organic proof, police had been met by Nicks within the driveway. His spouse and different members of the family had been additionally current.

After members of the family had been requested to depart, officers sat down with Nicks and his spouse in the lounge and supplied them with a duplicate of the search warrant.

When requested why the 16-year-old would make such allegations in opposition to him, Nicks replied that “he didn’t know why, and wouldn’t give any purpose why she would,” the affidavit says.

When requested what he was doing on the time of the alleged rape, Nicks instructed police that he and the sufferer had been in the lounge and “wrestled round some” like they’d prior to now, then left to go to Wal-Mart for weed killer.

Each the victims’ and Nicks’ underwear had been taken for evaluation, however for causes unknown, Nicks’ was not initially examined by the crime lab, the affidavit reads.

The sufferer’s mom instructed police two weeks later that her daughter confided that Nicks had additionally raped her earlier that very same month, on the identical dwelling. When she requested her daughter why she didn’t inform her earlier than, the teenager responded that she didn’t assume anybody would imagine her, the affidavit says.

Police say that in the course of the preliminary forensic interview, the sufferer was requested if something like this had occurred earlier than, and her response was “no.”

The testing of each events’ underwear got here from the Arkansas State Crime Lab dated April 20, 2022. Further testing was requested by police for the reason that crime allegedly occurred on the mattress of a male relative presumably associated to Nicks.

Police additionally resubmitted the proof and requested that the crime lab check the within of Nicks’ underwear for the sufferer’s DNA. On August 9, 2022, the outcomes mentioned, in conclusion, that the overseas DNA profile inside Nicks’ underwear matched the sufferer’s “inside all scientific certainty.”

The affidavit additionally notes that this case had a real discovering by investigators of the Arkansas State Police Crime In opposition to Youngsters Division, and that discovering is at the moment being appealed by Nicks.

No bond has been set, and Nicks stays within the Poinsett County Sheriff’s Workplace Jail.

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