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| Victor Gray Dingler |
A 33 year old Glencoe man is in the Etowah County
Detention Center charged with first-degree sexual abuse.
Victor
Gray Dingler, was arrested after a
criminal complaint was brought by Homeland Security Investigations alleging that he took sexually
explicit photos of a child that ended up being sent via Internet.
According to federal court documents, the investigation
began in March 2013, when HSI in Birmingham received a series of images
depicting the sexual molestation of a young girl by an adult man. The images
originate from a website located by Danish National Police. One of the images
depicted a University of Alabama blanket.
In September, HSI received a call from representatives of
the Alabama Department of Education, alerting them it was possible the girl in
the photographs had been located.
On or
about Monday, HSI Special Agent Suzanne Prevatte and Etowah County deputies
went to an Etowah County elementary school and identified a 7-year-old child
there as the same one in the photos, using facial features, hair and eye color
and dental characteristics. The girl said
she was the one in the photos and she identified the man in the photos.
When the
girl’s mother was interviewed, she also identified the man in the photos, and
both she and the girl identified wood paneling that could be seen in the photos,
indicating the photos were made at the man’s former residence in Etowah County.
Various law enforcement databases gave investigators a current residence for
the defendant in Glencoe.
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