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Additional Charges Filed Against Walnut Hill Man Accused Of Sexual Battery Of Teen Girl
February 25, 2020
Additional charges have been filed against a Walnut Hill man accused the sexual battery of a teenage girl over a four year period of time.
In January, 40-year old William Isaiah Dunsford was charged with first degree felony sexual battery on a victim over 12 but under 18 by a custodial person. Dunsford has now been charged with two additional counts of first degree felony sexual battery on a victim over 12 but under 18 by a custodial person, lewd and lascivious molestation, and one count of battery by expelling fluids.
According to the State Attorney’s Office, the additional charges were filed against Dunsford after interviewing the victim. He was released from the Escambia County Jail after posting a $212,000 bond. He is due back in court in mid-April.
The investigation began in June 2019 after the victim went to her work supervisor and asked for more hours and a later shift. When the supervisor asked why, she admitted Dunsford had been sexually assaulting her since she was 13, according to an arrest report. The employer contacted law enforcement.
The victim told investigators that Dunsford had sex with her one to two times a week. She said Dunsford tells her that he will take care of her, and when she turns 18 they will be together, according to an arrest report. The victim said multiple times that she does not want anything bad to happen to Dunsford “because she feels as though they are in a loving relationship” and she allows him to have sex with her, the report states.
“He says that he loves me and I tell it to him back,” the victim stated, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office report.
The victim was confirmed to be pregnant at the time of the report last June by the Department of Children and Families, but the report does state who is the biological father of the child.
Dunsford also allegedly took multiple nude photos of the underage victim and instructed her to take photographs of herself and send them to him.
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10 Responses to “Additional Charges Filed Against Walnut Hill Man Accused Of Sexual Battery Of Teen Girl”
@James where do you read that she had an abortion?? Because that is no where in the story.
First off, I am not posting for sympathy. I am a survivor of custodial sexual abuse, I am 48 yrs old now, but when I was 10, my step father started abusing me. My mother found my journal and STAYED WITH HIM! I had written things in there that no 10 yr old should ever even known about! But she loved him and couldn’t believe I would say such horrible things about him! So I agree with Jon, What, & Steve, this is a predator, who should never be allowed around children again. This child was molded into believing her abuser. I am sure he spent years “training” her into believing they were in a loving relationship! My abuse lasted until I was 13, that’s when I pulled his own pistol on him…Needless to say, I didn’t kill him, but he also never touched me again. This child was reaching out for help, THANK GOD FOR HER EMPLOYER! My own mother didn’t believe me, thank God she had a responsible adult that did believe her! I don’t know the story or the relationship with her mother, but I pray the mom leaves him, for good! Your children are the most precious gifts given to you by God, you should treasure them always, not give a predator every opportunity to abuse them for their own self gratifications! This child will need years of help, she will need to learn trusting others again, she will have relationship issues, SHE WILL NEED YEARS OF COUNSELING! I pray for her, I pray she has a support system available to her, I didn’t. Not until I was grown with children of my own did I get help. But my trust issues have lasted my entire life, Praying for her!
There are not “two sides to every story” here. This is an adult who groomed a child. Suggesting otherwise is disgusting.
Bring back hanging { Public } at that. This man would first.
Two sides to every story
JAMES… You are SICK for even suggesting this girl wanted this or even had the maturity to understand what happened.
He manipulated her and abused her from a early age. She was brain washed.
And Dunsford KNEW what he was doing was wrong but done it out of some sick desire he has.
@James. Those are the million dollar questions.
I’m still trying to figure out how an 12-year-old can be mature enough to have an abortion without notifying or having her parents consent but a 16 or 17-year-old girl is too immature to be in love.
That an 10 year old boy is mature enough to say he wants to be a girl and wear a dress and makeup to school but 18-20 year old man isn’t mature enough to purchase a gun to protect himself from crimes such as Hone Invasions.
HOW IS HE ABLE TO AFFORD BOND..????.. and yes I yelled that..
Put him under the jail.He is a sick man to have done this to a child.I also think the mother should be charged especially after the child went to her and told her she was pregnant and the mom didn’t believe her.iIm sure the mom is still with him