A Maury County father is facing criminal charges after he allegedly beat up a man accused of soliciting his two young daughters.
Kenneth Faulkner, 30, is charged with aggravated assault. He was arrested last Thursday and held in the Maury County jail before posting bond the next day.
Faulkner says he was upset that Thomas Williams, 67, was sentenced to just three years of supervised probation for soliciting his two daughters, ages 4 and 7.
He says his children are related to Williams by marriage.
The father told News 2 he suspected sexual abuse and reported it to the Columbia Police Department last December.
According to court documents, on March 5 a Maury County Grand Jury indicted Williams on two counts of solicitation of a minor, defined as “unlawfully and intentionally and being eighteen years of age or older, by means of oral, written, or electronic communication, electronic mail or Internet services, directly or through another, to intentionally command, request, hire, persuade, invite or attempt to induce a person, to-wit to engage in the offense of sexual battery by an authority figure.”
Williams was arrested on April 13 and booked into jail on $2,000 bond. According to jail records, he made bond the same day. (continue reading at WKRN)