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An 89-year-old Arizona antheral has been arrested connected accusations helium sexually abused children successful his location authorities and successful Las Vegas and Reno dating to the 1970s.
Leslie Jenkins, of Tucson, was arrested Dec. 7 and booked into the Clark County Detention Center connected aggregate felony counts of intersexual battle and lewdness with a child.
Police wrote successful his apprehension study that an probe into Jenkins started connected Aug. 2 erstwhile a societal idiosyncratic said a Reno younker disclosed intersexual abused by Jenkins successful Reno. When questioned, the miss confirmed the details of the assaults to detectives.
Police said they subsequently interviewed aggregate accusers. Two women told constabulary they’d been abused by Jenkins successful the 1970s. Another said she and a 2nd younker had been abused by Jenkins successful Las Vegas, and that the different miss yet took her beingness erstwhile she turned 18.
“(She) recalled being touched much than 1,000 times by Leslie implicit a people of 8 years,” constabulary said of the surviving accuser. “The maltreatment was said to person started successful 1999-2007.”
The pistillate told constabulary “the enactment maltreatment besides occurred each clip they went connected vacations, which took spot successful California, Utah and assorted camping trips successful Las Vegas,” constabulary said.
During an interrogation with Las Vegas detectives, Jenkins allegedly told constabulary “he know(s) what helium did was wrong,” the study said.
Jenkins has not been formally charged and was being held connected $500,000 bail. He is scheduled to look successful Las Vegas Justice Court Monday greeting to larn if Clark County prosecutors volition prosecute the case.
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