A 22-year-old man is in custody after police say he sexually assaulted and took inappropriate images of a 13-year-old runaway after assembly her on a relationship app.
Kenneth Earl Jackson III was arrested Friday on expenses of aggravated sexual assault of a kid, possession of kid pornography and harboring a runaway youngster. It’s unclear whether or not he has an lawyer.
On Could 12, the Texas Division of Public Security was notified by the Walker County Sheriff’s Division a few 13-year-old woman who was reported as a runaway two days earlier within the East Texas county. The sheriff’s division tracked a tool believed to be within the woman’s possession to the Dallas-Fort Price space, a DPS particular agent wrote in an arrest-warrant affidavit.
Authorities tracked the machine to an house within the 2100 block of Empire Central Drive, close to Harry Hines Boulevard, and spoke with Jackson there Friday. Jackson advised authorities he picked the woman up in Huntsville, about 70 miles north of Houston, on Could 11 after speaking together with her by way of a relationship app, the affidavit says.
Jackson advised authorities that he let the woman keep at his house and didn’t confirm her age or attempt to contact her mother and father. Jackson then allowed authorities to go looking his telephone, and police discovered nude photographs of the woman, in keeping with the affidavit.
Throughout an interview with authorities, Jackson mentioned he had sexual activity with the woman a number of occasions whereas she was at his house.
Jackson is being held within the Dallas County jail, with bail set at $101,500.