Riverside County Sheriff’s Department | Contributed
A 67-year-old Riverside man accused of sexually abusing two girls more than a decade ago is slated to be arraigned Wednesday on more than a dozen felony charges.
Kenneth Donald Callahan was arrested in April following a two-month-long investigation by the Riverside Police Department’s Sexual Assault-Child Abuse unit.
Callahan is charged with two counts of statutory rape and a dozen counts of lewd acts on a minor, with sentence-enhancing allegations of targeting multiple victims in a sex crime.
The defendant, who is being held without bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta, is slated to be arraigned Wednesday before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Sean Crandell at the Riverside Hall of Justice.
According to Riverside Police Officer Ryan Railsback, Callahan allegedly sexually molested the two victims, whose identities were not disclosed, in the mid-2000s, though the circumstances weren’t specified.
Railsback said the victims, now adults, came forward with the allegations in February, culminating in the SACA investigation.
Detectives aren’t certain whether the defendant had illicit contact with other minors, but he “has been affiliated with Little League baseball in Riverside for many years as a coach and website designer,” the police spokesman said.
Callahan has no documented prior felony or misdemeanor convictions in Riverside County.
Anyone with information about the case or other potential victims was asked to contact the SACA squad at 951-353-7945.
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