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PITTSTON — A Monroe County man faces rape and sexual exploitation charges in part for allegedly bringing a 9-year-old boy to a Pittston home where he tossed another man a bottle of lubricant for use in a sexual act.
The state Office of Attorney General on Wednesday charged 38-year-old David R. Parker with unlawful contact with a minor, sexual exploitation of children and rape.
Parker, of Rustic Lane, Saylorsburg, was arraigned on the charges Thursday before District Judge Alexandra Kokura Kravitz and jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $500,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
According to the complaint, an investigation led the Office of Attorney General to Craig Michael Knox, a Virginia resident who said he met Parker while living on Butler Street in Pittston from 2005 to 2012.
After discussing their mutual attraction to young boys and dogs, Parker told Knox he “had access to” a child and later brought the boy to Knox’s residence in Pittston, the complaint says. Parker allegedly gave Knox a bottle of lubricant, motioned to the child and said, “have at it,” according to the complaint.
Knox, with Parker’s encouragement, allegedly took the child to an upstairs bedroom and performed oral sex on him. The complaint says Parker took off his pants and made the child rub his genitals after returning downstairs. The boy “appeared embarrassed and looked at the floor as he did what he was instructed to do,” Knox told investigators.
Court records show Knox, 35, is scheduled for an extradition hearing in Henrico County, Virginia, on Dec. 2.
Parker, the complaint says, acknowledged sexually assaulting the boy since he was 2 years old. The nature of their relationship was not disclosed.
The child, now 14, told investigators Parker took him to several homes where other men would touch his genitals with their hands and mouths. He said was relieved “that part of his life was over,” but still has nightmares about being taken to a stranger’s home “for a bad experience,” according to the complaint.
Parker faces nearly a dozen child pornography charges in Monroe County following a June investigation into the online solicitation and sexual exploitation of children that also snared 39-year-old Jeffrey Alan Harvey, of West Wyoming.