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Boone Man Charged In Wilkes With Sex Offenses
A Boone man has been charge in Wilkes County with sex offenses.
The Watauga Democrat reports 38 year old Brian Joseph Perry, of 513 Green Briar Road, Boone, was in the Wilkes County Jail under a $1 million dollar bond.
According to the report Assistant District Attorney Matthew Leach said the incident reportedly happened on Oct. 20 with a an alleged victim who is 12-years-old.
Perry was charged by the Wilkesboro Police Department with two counts of statutory rape of a child by an adult and four counts of statutory sex offense with a child by an adult.
QPCC trained during height of Covid restrictions; Lamb: why national team and not clubs?
On 2 October 2020, the QPCC Football Academy despatched emails to parents from their under-10 age group and older, which invited them to send their children to training from Monday 12 October at the St Joseph’s Convent grounds in St Clair.
At the time, Trinidad and Tobago was on a high Covid-19 alert and restrictions to thwart the spread of the novel coronavirus included: a limit on public gatherings to five persons, no in-house dining, no contact sport, no services inside churches or all places of worship, no gyms, no water parks, no casinos and members clubs, no cinemas, and no access to beaches and rivers.