Michael W. Taylor - Repeat Sex Offender - Assaults 2 year old boy

MUNCIE — A convicted sex offenderwas arrested early Monday for molesting a 2-year-old boy.

Muncie police were called by the alleged victim’s mother, who said she awoke to find her boyfriend, Michael W. Taylor, 32, touching her young son’s genitals.

Taylor had been lying in bed with the woman and her child, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Police preliminarily charged Taylor with child molesting, a Class C felony carrying a standard four-year sentence.

Taylor was convicted in 1999 of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child in Monroe County, Fla., and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He is listed on the Indiana Sheriff’s Sex and Violent Offender’s Registry.

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.........Sarah Tofte