Lincoln police have accused a 31-year-old sex offender under federal supervision of sexually assaulting a girl he knew in February, according to Lancaster County Court records.
Alex P. Garden was charged with first-degree sexual assault of a child and intentional child abuse Wednesday.
A police investigator wrote in court documents that the girl, who is younger than 12, told a relative that Garden had subjected her to sexual contact.
The girl told a forensic interviewer that she had showered with him and that he had performed a sexual act on her, according to an affidavit for his arrest.
Police said the girl correctly described distinctive physical characteristics of the man's anatomy.
Garden has been in the Saline County jail in Wilber since June, when federal prosecutors alleged he violated the terms of his federal supervised release in June.
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In 2016, Garden admitted to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to federal prison.
He was put on house arrest late last year, and then was put on supervised release in March.
A probation officer alleged he had disabled the monitoring service for his cellphone for nearly a month and that she found a child-sized, rubber sex doll in his home during a June search.
Another evidentiary hearing on that case will be held later this month.
If convicted of the state charges, Garden faces up to life imprisonment.