Hillsboro teen faces nearly decade-old sex charges

A 19-year-old Hillsboro resident was arrested Friday on multiple sex charges dating back at least nine years.

Christopher L. Walker, 19, was arrested Friday by Hillsboro police on warrants charging him with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, a single count of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child to perform a sex act, and interference with law enforcement by submitting false information regarding a felony.

He was being held Tuesday in lieu of posting $32,500 in bonds.

According to court documents, Walker is accused as a juvenile of fondling a child younger than 14 on July 30, 2014; on July 30, 2018; and on Sept. 1, 2019, when he also was accused of soliciting the child to perform a sex act.

Because Walker was very young throughout this span, his sentence, should he be convicted, is unclear.

“That’s a question for the courts,” Hillsboro Chief of Police Jessey Hiebert said.

County Attorney Michelle Brown could not be reached for comment.

Hiebert said the delay in arresting Walker was because the victims had not come forward until recently.

“There are times kids are abused when they are 5, and they don’t report it until they’re 30,” Hiebert said.

Hillsboro officer Duane McCarty said two minors approached him with the claims in January.

Walker allegedly lied to McCarty while the latter was investigating the cases, falsely claiming he was in Oklahoma and unable to meet Dec. 27 in Hillsboro.

A complaint filed in the case last week states that Hillsboro assistant chief Randall Brazil saw Walker at his home in Hillsboro while he was talking to McCarty on the phone.

Details of the allegations from 2014, 2018, and 2019 are not public records not only to protect the privacy of the victim but also because both the victim and the alleged perpetrator were juveniles at the time.

Walker was ticketed in 2024 for driving in violation of his learner’s permit after a traffic stop in which a drug-sniffing dog detected drugs.

At the time, Hillsboro police indicated they would ask County Attorney Joel Ensey to pursue charges of possession of THC and drug paraphernalia against him and a passenger, Cheyanna Maggard, 21.

Court records indicate that only Maggard was charged and that those charges were dismissed by Ensey because a summons for her to appear in court was not deliverable.