Lenoir City man charged with child rape
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Lenoir City man was arrested on three
counts of rape after a 4-year-old boy
described in graphic detail incidents
that took place over three days
beginning Dec. 29 at a residence in the
3000 block of Hines Valley Road.
During interviews conducted by the Kids
First Child Advocacy Center of the Ninth
Judicial District and the Tennessee
Department of Child Services, the boy
told officials that Terry Lee Shelton,
36, Lenoir City, “touched me here” and
pointed to his crotch area, according to
Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Inv. Jeff
Russell’s arrest report.
The boy told DCS that Shelton, a
boyfriend of the child’s grandmother,
took his hand and placed it on the man’s
penis, motioning to officials what he
was instructed to do, Russell wrote,
noting that Shelton also had the boy
place his mouth on the man’s penis.
During an interview with Shelton,
police learned that on Dec. 29 the
boy was in the bed with Shelton as
his grandmother was asleep. As
Shelton was watching a pornographic
movie with the boy, he “did place
(the boy’s) hand on his penis and
had him to masturbate him and also
had him perform oral sex on him,”
Russell wrote.
Shelton said a similar incident
happened Jan. 2 and Jan. 3.
“When asked the location (of the
incidents), he said every time was
in his and grandmaws bed while he
was asleep while watching movies,”
according to police.
Shelton was charged with three
counts of rape of a child and held
on $450,000 bond.