Man arrested in child sex crime

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Corey Adames Hunt, 23, of Cost, remains in custody in Gonzales County Jail, charged with aggravated assault against a child, a first-degree felony. Bond has been set at $50,000.

“The victim in question is a 13-year-old girl from Waelder,” said Sgt. Billy Moore of the Waelder Police Department.

“Back on Feb. 15, we got a call from the girl’s father, who came home from work and saw a white car parked in front,” he said. “When he entered the house, a man took off running out the door, got into the car and sped off. The father asked the girl what happened, and she just told him she was sick.”

But the father didn’t believe his daughter’s story, Moore said. The father took his daughter to school, then called police to report the incident.

“He didn’t know who the man was, but he definitely wanted to find out and find a way to keep him off his property,” Moore said.

The daughter later confessed to her father that she had been communicating with the man. The father took away the daughter’s cell phone and gave it to WPD.

“We looked through the phone and saw multiple texts between the suspect and victim – pictures also – and through different search methods, we were able to identify a possible suspect,” Moore said. “The next day we contacted the parents, and the father took her to Norma’s House for a forensic interview.”

The daughter was then taken to Guadalupe Regional Medical Center in Seguin for a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) examination (for DNA). During the examination, the child told the nurse she had had sexual relations with Hunt, Moore said. Waelder police then secured an arrest warrant from Gonzales County Judge David Bird.

Moore said on March 15, Hunt called him, saying he heard they were looking for him.

“He called me and we met him in Gonzales, and he turned himself over to us without any struggle,” he said.

“Even though the incident occurred on Feb 15, it took a month to get the warrants because of all the evidence involved,” Moore explained. “We took all phone records to the DPS crime lab to have info pulled off and put on a disc. She had two phones. The second one is still being analyzed. It also took a week and a half for us to receive the SANE nurse’s official report on the child.

“Then we had to do our report based on her report, which took about two and a half weeks,” Moore said.

On March 16, WPD executed the search warrant to search Hunt’s home in Cost.

“We obtained all media storage devices for evidence to be sent to the Texas DPS crime lab in Austin,” Moore said. “One cell phone had to be taken to Secret Service in Houston because it had a password authorities couldn’t crack.”

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