A Bowling Green teenager was expected to be arraigned this morning on charges he sexually abused a 6-year-old boy.
Christopher Ashcraft, 18, was to make his first appearance in Warren Circuit Court to enter a plea to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of first-degree sodomy.
A Warren County grand jury indicted Ashcraft last week.
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The indictment accuses Ashcraft of subjecting the juvenile to sexual contact on two occasions between Nov. 2 and Dec. 2 and engaging in deviant sexual intercourse with a child younger than 12 years of age once during the same time period.
Bowling Green Police arrested Ashcraft on Dec. 4. Police records describe Ashcraft as a highly functioning mentally challenged man who lives in the care of someone who reported the allegations.
According to a city police report, Ashcraft had been looking at child pornography on a telephone that belongs to his caregiver.
The parents of a child who visited the house where Ashcraft lives told his caregiver Ashcraft inappropriately touched their child.
Police spoke with Ashcraft while his caregiver was present, and Ashcraft claimed not to know anything about the child mentioned and asked his caregiver to leave the room.
According to police records, Ashcraft told police about another child who comes to visit the home, saying that he touched the boy inappropriately and attempted to perform a sex act with the child.
Ashcraft told police he didn’t think what happened was a big deal but agreed he needed help, according to a police report.
When police interviewed the child’s mother, she did not know about the allegations but said her son had made excuses not to go to Ashcraft’s home, police records show.
Warren Circuit Judge John Grise set Ashcraft’s bond at $25,000 cash.
