ROCKINGHAM — A man with several previous convictions is now facing child sex crime charges.
Investigators with the Rockingham Police Department have charged 39-year-old Robert Latavious Wilson, of Rockingham, with taking indecent liberties with a child and committing a crime against nature.
The alleged victim is now an adult, but was a minor at the time the acts reportedly occurred, according to police. The report was filed Dec. 24, 2021.
According to investigators, Wilson turned himself in at the Richmond County magistrate’s office on Friday, accompanied by a bondsman who put up bail for the $100,000 secured bond. Wilson is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 20.
Online court records show Wilson has no other pending charges.
Records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction show Wilson’s most recent convictions were in 2011, when he was given probation in Richmond County on larceny after breaking and entering and three counts of receiving stolen goods and was incarcerated for five months for possessing stolen goods.
Shortly before his release, Wilson was convicted in Guilford County on two counts of obtaining property by false pretenses and one count of receiving stolen goods. He was given a suspended sentence in that case.
Wilson was first convicted in 2005 for maintaining any place for a controlled substance. He was given probation, which was revoked two years later when convicted of possession of both a Schedule II and Schedule VI controlled substance, landing him behind bars for six months. A month into his sentence, Wilson was convicted of driving with a revoked license.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
