Richard Dell - Repeat Sex Offender - Charged with Child Porn while being held for Sexual Assault

• Conviction Date: 12/13/1989 Age at conviction: 40 -- CRIMINAL CONFINEMENT, IF THE VICTIM IS LESS THAN 18
• Conviction Date: 11/2/1990 Age at conviction: 41 -- SEXUAL BATTERY
• Conviction Date: 11/2/1990 Age at conviction: 41 -- CRIMINAL CONFINEMENT, IF THE VICTIM IS LESS THAN 18
• Conviction Date: 1/11/1999 Age at conviction: 50 -- CHILD MOLESTING
  

A Westfield man already in jail in Tipton County since May on a felony sexual battery charge involving an 11-year-old girl is now facing 15 felony charges relating to images of children police found on his computer.

But it gets worse. Richard E. Dell, 58, Westfield, already was a convicted sex offender on parole before his May arrest.

Dell has been jailed in Tipton County since May 20 on the sexual battery charge stemming from an incident that month. Dell was in Tipton when the sexual battery incident occurred, said Indiana State Police Master Trooper Detective Tony Frawley.

Dell was arrested in Westfield and transported back to Tipton County Jail.

Police searched his computer, Frawley said, and found enough child pornography to file another 15 felony charges. He will be prosecuted in Hamilton County on those charges.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte