The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office charged a convicted sex offender with second-degree sexual abuse after a tip from a citizen led to a two-month investigation.
Deputies first responded to an RV community in Foley on March 26. A caller told dispatch that she witnessed an adult man following a female juvenile into a public restroom. After conducting interviews and gathering evidence, they identified the suspect as John Allen Davis, 38, of Foley.
Davis had failed to notify the sheriff's office that he had moved, as required by the Sex Offender Registration Notification Act (SORNA), so he was booked into the Baldwin County Sheriff's Corrections Center on April 3.
Following interviews with the Alabama Department of Human Resources and the Baldwin County Child Advocacy Center, it was determined that enough evidence was gathered to charge Davis with second-degree sexual abuse, a felony charge. The sheriff's office said more sex-related offense charges are pending.
Davis remains behind bars.
Davis’s previous offenses were from 2001 in Kentucky, for first-degree sodomy involving a child less than 12 and from 2007 for rape and sodomy in Baldwin County.
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