A Poplar Bluff man sits in the Butler County jail facing charges in Butler and Carter counties for sex crimes.
James D. Bond, 34, of the 200 block of Boulder Trail Drive, is charged in Butler County with the unclassified felony of sodomy or attempted sodomy, the Class D felony of second degree statutory rape and the Class B misdemeanor of first degree sexual misconduct. He also is charged in Carter County with the Class D felony of second degree sodomy.
A bond hearing was held Tuesday before Judge John Shock. The defendant is currently being held with no possibility of bond. A motion related to bond from the defense attorney was denied, according to Missouri case.net, with the court finding, “the defendant is a danger to the community.”
According to the probable cause statement by Missouri State Highway Patrol Corporal J.D. Patton, the MSHP was requested on March 11 to investigate the possible sexual assault of two females in Butler County, both of whom were juveniles at the time of the alleged assaults.
During an interview, the first woman said when she was 16 years old, that Bond forced her to perform a sex act on him and that this was the first of approximately 20 times that he allegedly assaulted her.
The first woman said she thought this first incident occurred in the fall of 2018 and that in some of the alleged assaults, he had sex with her.
During a forensic interview with the second woman, she accused Bond of exposing himself when she was with the first victim and when both were minors. Both women said Bond provided them with alcohol, and the first woman said she was intoxicated during several of the alleged assaults.
Bond was interviewed on March 15 by the MSHP and reportedly asked for his attorney.
Bond is being held without bond at the Butler County jail. He is scheduled to appear May 17 in a Butler County courtroom for a preliminary hearing. No court dates have currently been set on the Carter County charges, according to Missouri case.net.