A 40-year-old Dover man was jailed Tuesday as city police investigated sexual abuse claims by a minor that occurred in 2010 and 2011, court records said.
Thomas E. Spicer, of the first block of Par Haven Drive, was charged with nine felonies and a misdemeanor regarding a variety of sexual acts with a now 12-year-old male, the affidavit of probable cause said.
The incidents occurred at a previous residence in the 800 block of Woodcrest Turn.
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Dover police investigation found that Mr. Spicer also forced the victim to snort what was believed to cocaine and drink suspected alcohol while in his care, documents said.
Mr. Spicer allegedly threatened to kill the victim if he reported the incidents, records said, and held a knife to his throat at one point.
Police said in papers that a Delaware Justice Information System inquiry shoed that Mr. Spicer had been a Tier 2 registered sex offender since Sept. 6, 1994 following a second-degree unlawful sexual contact conviction.
Mr. Spicer was charged with unsolicited sexual contact with a child by a person of trust, authority or supervision, four second-degree counts of sexual abuse of a child, aggravated menacing, endangering the welfare of a child, unlawfully administering substance drugs, and terroristic threatening.
Under Miranda, police said, Mr. Spicer denied the allegations.
Mr. Spicer was arraigned at JP Court 7 in Dover, and held in lieu of a $112,000 secured bail at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Friday morning in the Kent County Court of Common Pleas.
