More child sex charges filed on ex-Spring man

More child sex charges filed on ex-Spring man
By BRIAN ROGERS Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
March 25, 2009, 2:10PM

A former Spring resident who was returned here from Thailand early
this year on accusations that he had sexually assaulted young girls in
this area has been charged with assaulting two more girls.

Darren Ray Castleberry, 40, now is accused of attacks on seven girls
during the period from 1986 to 2005. Investigators have said he made
video recordings of some of the incidents.

Prosecutors say Castleberry faces eight counts of aggravated sexual
assault of a child, a first-degree felony punishable by 5 to 99 years
or life in prison. Those charges concern alleged victims who were 13
or younger.

He also is charged with three counts of sexual assault of a child, a
second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison. Those
charges concern accusations that he assaulted girls who were at least
14 years old.

The latest charges resulted from reports by girls who were 7 and 10 at
the

time of the alleged assaults, prosecutors said.

Castleberry remains in the Harris County Jail. He was the object of an
international manhunt after leaving the United States in 2006, when
some of the alleged victims contacted authorities and accused him.

Authorities say they tracked him from Kuwait to Turkey, Armenia and
Uzbekistan before he was arrested in Bangkok on Jan. 7.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS