NEWTON COUNTY – A Covington man faces quite a lot of expenses after he allegedly engaged in inappropriate conversations along with his personal niece.
Lenox Corlette, 61, was arrested on Nov. 27 following an investigation from the Newton County Sheriff’s Workplace (NCSO) relating to his textual content messages along with his juvenile niece.
In keeping with a story from the NCSO, the juvenile’s mom observed in July that her daughter had been getting textual content messages from somebody by the title of “Lenox.” When the mom requested who Lenox was, the daughter stated it was “Uncle Olo,” a reputation that was utilized by Corlette. Whereas the messages had been listed as “not alarming and pleasant,” the mom opted to dam the quantity.
On Aug. 20, whereas at a household gathering together with Corlette, the mom obtained a name from her husband, with the person claiming that Corlette was sending inappropriate messages stating, “I wish to see you.”
Officers spoke to the husband, by which he stated his daughter walked within the room and stated that Corlette was “performing bizarre.” The husband and his brother-in-law continued to textual content Corlette from his daughter’s telephone.
The husband and the brother-in-law then known as the quantity on their private telephones, by which they believed it was Corlette on the opposite finish. It’s not clear what transpired in both telephone name.
After the telephone name, Corlette allegedly stored texting the juvenile’s telephone, asking for photos of “cat” and “fish,” in keeping with the narrative. When the husband and brother-in-law responded with an image of a fish tank, Corlette allegedly requested to see the daughter’s genital space.
When chatting with officers, the brother-in-law stated that Corlette continued to ask for genital photos, earlier than allegedly sending an image of his personal genitals to the daughter’s telephone.
The images had been despatched to investigators who then introduced forth expenses three months later.
Corlette is charged with one rely of utilizing a pc service to solicit, seduce, lure or entice a baby to commit criminality, one rely of distribution of fabric depicting nudity or sexual conduct and one rely of kid molestation. He has since bonded out.
