UPDATE: July 11 at 5:30 p.m.
Dustin Fields walked into court this morning for another arraignment for multiple charges of sexual abuse of a minor.
According to court documents, Fields subjected a then four-year-old to sexual contact at different times between 2007 and again in 2009.
In May of this year, Fields was indicted on murder and arson charges. Police say he set fire to his Frankfort home, knowing his two sons were inside.
He is also facing two counts of animal abuse following claims that he tortured a dog.
Fields entered a not guilty plea to those charges as well and remains in the Franklin County Regional Jail on a bond of $2 million.
Family members were in court on Friday, but did not want to comment on the case.
UPDATE: July 3 at 11 a.m.
The man accused of setting his home on fire with his sons inside, Dustin Fields, has been indicted by a grand jury on first-degree sexual abuse charges, according to a document filed in Franklin Circuit Court on July 1.
The document lists two charges of sexual abuse and reads that between or around Dec. 1, 2007 and on or around Nov. 16 2009 in Franklin County, Fields committed the offense "when he subjected [a minor] to sexual contact who is incapable of consent."
Original Story:
Dustin Fields, the Franklin County man accused of setting fire to a home where his two children were inside, has been indicted on murder and arson charges.
According to a release from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, investigators served a search warrant on the home on June 9 and "spent four days sifting through over 7,000 pounds of fire debris collecting valuable evidence."
Fields was indicted on Wednesday on two counts of capital murder, one count of first degree arson, and two counts of torture of a dog. He remains lodged in the Franklin County Detention Center.
Fields is accused of setting fire to the home in April while knowing his sons, 13-year-old Bently Maxwell Fields and 15-year-old Rylan Austin Fields, were inside.
