MOORE MAN RECEIVES 15-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR LEWD ACT CONVICTION

A Moore man received a 15-year prison sentence today for making sexual advances on a 3-year-old child.

Roderick Dean, 33, pleaded guilty to lewd act on a minor. Circuit Judge Kenneth Goode issued the maximum sentence allowed under the law.

The crime occurred in January 2007. The victim told his babysitter how Dean touched him. The babysitter reported the crime to the Sheriff’s Office. Deputies used a forensic exam from the Children’s Advocacy Center to help build their case against Dean.

At the time of his arrest, Dean was listed on the state’s Sex Offender Registry for a 2003 lewd act conviction in Laurens County. Dean’s criminal history includes convictions for malicious injury to real property, possession of crack cocaine, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.

Dean will be evaluated in the Department of Corrections to determine if he is a sexual predator. If he is determined to be a sexual predator, he will have to complete therapy before he is released.