CONWAY, Ark. (KTHV) -- After several days of investigating allegations of sexual abuse of a six-year-old girl, Conway police arrested 59-year-old Richard Whitehead.
Whitehead faces two felony counts of sexual assault in the second degree. He confessed to detectives that he inappropriately touched the six-year-old girl and another 10-year-old girl.
The six-year-old's father reported the incident to police after he got a call from another parent. The parent claimed Whitehead inappropriately touched her daughter.
Whitehead admitted he touched both girls and that he spent five years in jail in the 1980s for a sexual offense.
He is in the Faulkner County Jail as of Thursday night.