July 21, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
A Lebanon man has been indicted in a child sex case.
34-year-old John David Stoops, Jr. of South Maple Street, Lebanon is charged in the indictment with three counts of aggravated sexual battery. His bond is $125,000 and he will appear for arraignment in DeKalb County Criminal Court August 1. At the time of the first offense in 2013, the victim was 6 years old.
Stoops was named in a sealed indictment returned by the DeKalb County Grand Jury on Monday, July 18.
According to the indictment, between the dates of May 1, 2013 and May 1, 2014 in DeKalb County, Stoops (twice) did intentionally, knowingly and unlawfully accomplish sexual contact with a person less than 13 years of age (victim was born December 15, 2006) and a third time between the dates of January 1 and December 1, 2016 when the child was 9 years old.