OGDEN, Utah, Nov. 19, 2016 (Gephardt Daily) — An 83-year-old Weber County man has been booked on two charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
Roy resident Dean Eldon Jones, who was convicted previously of sexual abuse, was booked into Weber County Jail on Thursday, and is being held on $40,000 bail.
According to a probable cause statement, Jones is accused of abusing a girl younger than 13 four times between July 1 and Oct. 15 in the basement of his home. The victim told her parents on Nov. 1 that Jones had touched her private parts beneath her clothing, according to the statement.
A video arraignment for Jones is scheduled for Monday. The first-degree felony counts he faces are punishable by up to life in prison.
Arizona U.S. District Court records show that in 1992, Jones was sentenced to 117 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to six counts of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child. The abuse took place on the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation, according to records. His probation ended in 2005.
