An Agra man bound over to stand trial on 14 felonies with minors has pleaded not guilty and his trial has been scheduled.
Kenneth Taylor Simpson, 21, originally was charged on Oct. 24, 2022 in Lincoln County District Court with lewd acts to a child under 16, forcible sodomy of a child under 16 and second degree rape.
On May 17, the District Attorney’s Office filled an additional six felonies against Simpson. On May 19, the DA’s office filed five more felony charges.
At the conclusion of his preliminary hearing, May 19, he was bound over to stand trial.
He now faces a total of eight lewd acts to a child under age 16, two for first degree rape and, one for second degree rape by instrumentation and three for forcible oral sodomy.
During his arraignment on May 30 before District Judge Traci Soderstrom, Simpson pleaded not guilty and the court received the pleas. She set him for the felony disposition docket on Sep. 26, the jury trial call docket on Oct. 13 and a jury trial at 9 a.m. Oct. 16.
The judge ordered that all motions be filed by Aug. 8. Simpson appeared before Special Judge Emily Mueller on Oct. 24 and she originally ordered him held without bond. On Oct. 25, Simpson appeared again before Judge Mueller.
The judge set his bond at $100,000 and ordered Simp son to have no contact with the victims and no unsupervised contact with any minor as conditions of the bond.
In a probable cause affidavit, Lincoln County Investigator Christoper Hyde states he was notified by Investigator Kelly Coleman that he had been contacted by Agra Police Chief Richard Roe who had provided him with information regarding alleged lewd acts occurring with juveniles in the Agra area.
Hyde was advised that Chief Roe had been told an adult male had been soliciting nude photographs from juvenile females.
Simpson was first arrested on a felony warrant through the Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Office the evening of Oct. 19 by Hyde and other Lincoln County deputies. That warrant was for acts involving a minor child, the affidavit states.
Hyde and Sheriff Charlie Dougherty conducted an interview with Simpson regarding the allegations.
Investigator Larry Stover also assisted in the investigation.