Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 3, 1994 TAG: 9406030125
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The charges were held against Aaron Dixon, 36, after a preliminary hearing Thursday in the Bedford County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
Dixon is accused of taking indecent liberties and having anal sex with a boy he counseled at Opportunity House, a Lynchburg home for troubled youths.
"He told me that if I would have told anyone, that they wouldn't have believed me," the teen-ager testified Thursday. But he was unable to remember the exact time and dates of many of the encounters.
Dixon maintains his innocence. According to testimony, the sexual allegations were lodged after Dixon took away privileges from the boy.
The boy was placed at the facility in November after he was convicted of the aggravated sexual battery of a 3-year-old in Amherst County.
The sexual encounters took place at least six times from November to January, the teen-ager testified. On at least three occasions, the boy accuses Dixon of sodomizing him at Huddleston Elementary School in Bedford County, where Dixon was principal.
Dixon resigned from that position in February after he was charged with sex crimes by Bedford County authorities.
In early February, Lynchburg police charged Dixon with molesting the teen-ager at Opportunity House. Dixon worked there as a part-time, paid counselor; his responsibilities included supervising and transporting the residents. He awaits a June 27 trial in the Lynchburg Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
by CNB