A $20,000 bench warrant that was issued for the arrest of a Wellston man facing two felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16 has been return and filed.
The two felonies were filed on Sep. 21 in Lincoln County District Court against Jason Wayne Womack, 39. The warrant was returned and filed the same day he was charged.
An initial appearance has been scheduled for Womack at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 14. His bond remains at $20,000.
In Count 1, he is accused of on Aug. 18 this year at a residence in Wellston of looking and touching a nine-year-old child in a lewd, lascivious and indecent manner.
Count 2 charges him with forcing the same nine-year-old to touch a certain part of his body on the same day.
In a probable cause affidavit, Lincoln County Deputy Sheriff Kevin Chapman states he responded to a call in Wellston around 11:22 p.m. on Aug. 18. The woman advised the deputy that her sister was going through a divorce and that the woman’s estranged husband had told the woman strange things he wanted to do.
Chapman said the woman went into detail saying the defendant had been having bad thoughts about wanting to do something with her daughter.
The deputy said she wrote out a statement detailing the situation.
He said the woman’s sister also wrote out a statement telling she had come home from work one afternoon and told her husband, the defendant, she wanted a divorce.
Chapman said in the affidavit that on Sep. 15 Detective Larry Stover set up a forensic interview with the woman’s two daughters, ages nine and eight, at the One Safe Place in Shawnee.
He stated that on Sep. 16 Vanessa Parsons interviewed the nine-year-old and the eight-year-old. On that same date, Parsons also interviewed the woman who is the mother of those two children.
She also conducted an interview on the same date with the woman’s sister who has just gone through the divorce.
She also interviewed a man known as “Papa.”
Five days following the interviews, the felony charges were filed.