A little pressure and it all goes away

Any questions that the right kind of pressure in Perry County can make charges disappear. How about making rape charges go away when a 5 year old girl "changes" her story. The same actors and the same pattern have a way of making issues go quiet in Perry County. Seems like this pattern is repeated over and over again to protect the machine in Perry County.
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Web confessor cleared of rape charges Case dropped after girl, now 5, denies man's Internet bragging

JAY MEISEL ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

PERRYVILLE -- Authorities have dropped rape charges against a Nimrod man who bragged over the Internet that he had sexual intercourse with a 4-year-old girl.

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Richard Hutto had the charges dropped Tuesday after the girl, who is now 5, told investigators that David Robert Blaylock, 55, did not rape her.

Blaylock has been held in the Perry County jail since January on $250,000 bond. He was charged with 10 counts of rape.

The investigation that led to Blaylock's arrest began after he told a woman on the Internet that he was having sex with a 4-year-old child.

Authorities said the woman and a friend provided the Fort Worth Police Department with printed copies of the chat conversations.

At that point, the woman did not know the identity of Blaylock, who used the pseudonyms King David, Daddy 4 You and Man of Song, authorities said.

The woman eventually enticed her Internet chat companion to give her a telephone number, which was traced to Blaylock, authorities said.

Blaylock was arrested when he showed up for his first day of work at a San Antonio automobile dealership.

Herby Branscum, Blaylock's attorney, said police had no evidence that Blaylock ever had sex with the girl.

Branscum said he believes the woman enticed Blaylock into making statements about child rape, indicating that she was interested in the subject. He said Blaylock was essentially telling the woman what he believed she wanted to hear.

Blaylock is reported to have said on Tuesday that he was participating with the woman in a child molestation fantasy.

She, in turn, was feeding the information to a man who passed it along to authorities, Branscum said.

"I love my daughter and my family," Blaylock told Little Rock television station KTHV-TV, Channel 11. "I'm sorry for my stupidity in putting them through this."

Branscum said he had filed a motion to have the statements made by Blaylock over the Internet inadmissible. But that issue was never raised because of the prosecutor's decision to drop the charges.

During a hearing Tuesday, a judge ruled that prosecutors could not use a previous statement by the girl because the questions appeared to be leading, Perry County Sheriff Ray Byrd said.

Branscum said the girl, in her first statement, initially denied that Blaylock had raped her. But after repeated questioning, she said it occurred, Branscum said. He said it appears to him that many of the questions were suggestive.

One of the issues raised during the hearing was how the 4-year-old girl would have known about the sex acts if she had not been raped. Branscum suggested that the girl might have been eavesdropping on her father while he watched pornographic films.

Blaylock has worked in the past as a nightclub singer in Arkansas, Las Vegas and other locations. He was charged in 1992 with seven counts of molesting minor girls in Las Vegas, but those charges were reduced to misdemeanors, authorities said. Information for this article was contributed by The Associated Press.