LAWRENCE COUNTY MAN ARRESTED NEARLY A YEAR AFTER BEING INDICTED FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE
SUSPECT HAD BEEN HIDING FOR MORE THAN 11 MONTHS
AUGUST 30, 2023 – written by WADE QUEEN
A Lawrence County man has been arrested, nearly a year on the run after being indicted for child sex abuse.
Eddie D. West, 68, of Louisa, KY., was arrested on Thursday, August 24, in Johnson County by trooper Tracy Salyer of the Kentucky State Police Post 9-Pikeville, KY. Eddie West was indicted on September 8, 2022 on one count of
* SEXUAL ABUSE, 1ST DEGREE, VICTIM UNDER/12 YEARS OF AGE.
According to the indictment, Eddie West committed the offense of sexual abuse in the first degree by knowingly and unlawfully committing an offense against a vulnerable victim in a continuing course of conduct by subjection with a minor less than twelve years of age, to sexual contact two or more times between September 1 and December 31, 2017.
Eddie West is currently being held in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville on a $10,025 full cash bond. Eddie West is scheduled to appear on Thursday, September 14, for arraignment in Lawrence County Circuit Court.
Get your facts straight! He’s been living on 32 this entire time, in full knowledge of the justice department!
Where on 32? I live on 32 and I have never seen this man!
All this scum’s deserve torture death jail is too easy.