By Brandon Ortiz
bortiz@herald-leader.com
A Fayette County grand jury has indicted a Lexington man on 44 charges of sodomy and child pornography.
David M. Allen has been indicted on 44 charges of sodomy and child pornography.
David M. Allen, 36, is charged with six counts of sodomizing a child under the age of 12, 31 counts of using a minor in a sexual performance (either illicitly filming or photographing a minor), six counts of first-degree sex abuse and one count of possessing matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor.
The indictment was made public Wednesday.
Allen, who works for an electrical contractor in Lexington, is being held in the Fayette County Detention Center on $405,000 bond. He will be arraigned Thursday in Fayette Circuit Court.
According to the indictment, Allen sodomized a child on six occasions from March to May 2008. The accusations that he filmed or photographed minors date back to December 2006.
Fayette Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Larson declined to comment on the case because it is still pending. Court records did not indicate how he knew the children.
According to a police report, Allen agreed in June to allow police to search his computer. Police said they found images that were suspected to be child pornography.
“The subject stated he had more child pornography on other media,” the police report states.
It makes me really sick to read this story. I knew this person. I cannot even call him a man. This just goes to show that you never really know as much about a person, as you think you do. I would have never thought that he could have done something like this. You always teach your children and grandchildren to not trust strangers, but in todays world you can’t even trust people you know. Not even family.
I just hope that whatever child this happened to, will be able to get past this terrible ordeal.