Lowery Charged With Child Solicitation
WARSAW — Damen Kane Lowery, 19, 1160 N. Arbutus Trail, Warsaw, has been charged with a level 5 felony of child solicitation and inappropriate communication with a child, a class A misdemeanor.
This month [June] Officer Shane Bucher, of the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department, investigated a case of child exploitation that happened between May 29-31. A mother reported her daughter was receiving photos of genitalia from an adult male.
The daughter met Lowery at a family gathering on May 29, and they began to email and message each other. The mother monitors her daughter’s email and texts, which get sent to an account she set up. When she was looking through her daughter’s messages she came across a photo of Lowery’s genitalia he had sent the woman’s daughter. The mother said after the photo was sent the conversation turned toward a more sexual nature.
Bucher met with Lowery on June 6, and according to the affidavit of probable cause, Lowery admitted he had sent the photo of his genitalia to the girl, but he didn’t know the girl’s real age. The girl had told him she was a junior in high school. Lowery refused to provide Bucher with his phone.
Bucher obtained the text messages from the girl’s phone. In the messages the girl tells Lowery what grade she was actually in and Lowery stated he was okay with the age difference and continued “sexting” her.
Lowery is being held on a $10,250 surety and cash bond.