By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Glencoe has been ordered to stand trial on a charge of child sexual abuse at a rural Stillwater residence that he shared with a woman who became suspicious of him, court records show.
Ricky Scott Stokes, 35, who was arrested in Blackwell on July 21, waived his preliminary hearing Friday and remains in jail on $50,000 bail pending his trial court arraignment on Dec.1.
Stokes, who is on probation for marijuana possession in the presence of an infant in 2017, declined a request for an interview about the allegation, according to an affidavit by Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Rockford Brown.
According to an affidavit, the mother of a young girl met with the investigator at the Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 8, 2019.
“The mother informed me she had been in a relationship with Ricky Scott Stokes and recently became suspicious that he may be a child predator,” the investigator alleged in his affidavit.
“The mother observed multiple searches on Stokes’ phone in the internet history for incestuous relationships on pornographic websites. She took photos of these searches with her phone and provided me copies of these photos,” the investigator alleged in his affidavit.
“The mother and Stokes shared a residence in rural Payne County at the time she found these internet searches. She said there were at least two children under the age of 12 that Stokes would have had access to during the time they lived there,” the affidavit alleged.
“Due to her concerns over the internet searches, the mother asked the two children if Stokes had inappropriately touched them in any way. One child disclosed being sexually abused by Stokes,” the affidavit alleged.
During a forensic interview at the Saville Center on Aug. 9, 2019, “The child disclosed being touched between the legs and rubbed with force both over and under the clothing,” on more than one occasion in the living room and in her bed the affidavit alleged. “The child described feeling pain during the abuse,” the affidavit alleged.
Subsequently, the girl’s brother, who had a separate bed from her in their room, was interviewed at the Saville Center, the affidavit alleged. The girl’s brother “discovered seeing Stokes come into the bedroom at night, go to (the girl’s) bed and put his hand under the blanket,” the affidavit alleged.
According to Payne County court records, Stokes pleaded guilty two years ago to possessing marijuana in the presence of an infant at a Glencoe residence in 2017 after prior felony convictions. In 2018, Stokes was placed on seven years’ probation with an order to undergo random drug tests, have a substance abuse evaluation, take a parenting class and do 50 hours of community service.
Stokes had previously been convicted of domestic violence in 2013, grand larceny in 2011, and possessing stolen property in 2011, all in Pawnee County for which he was given three concurrent three-year prison terms, but only was incarcerated for three months before his release in 2014, Department of Corrections records show.
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