ALTHA -- An Altha man was arrested this week after a child told her father she had been molested.
According to the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office, Charlie James Crenshaw of Altha is being charged with four counts of sexual battery on a person under 12 and two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation on a child under 12.
CCSO said the investigation began that on Dec. 31 after a parent notified the Sheriffs Office that he believed his 9-year-old daughter had been the victim of sexual abuse. The victim told her father that she had been molested by a family friend who lived in their house. The father later discovered footage from an in-home security camera system that had captured in the crime in March.
The suspect was brought in for questioning and subsequently admitted to sexually abusing the victim on numerous occasions.