A man accused of having sex with an underage female has been jailed in Baxter County.
Fifty-five-year-old Gary Dale Robertson, who lists his address as a room at the Mountain Home Inn, was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center last Tuesday on multiple counts of 2nd degree sexual assault and sexual indecency with a child.
Robertson’s’s latest arrest came after a report came into the Mountain Home Police Department (MHPD) that the victim had told her mother she did not want to be around Robertson because he had been “touching her inappropriately.”
The victim said the unwanted activity had been going on for about a year, even though she had asked for it to stop on numerous occasions. She said she had been told by Robertson not to tell anyone what was happening because he “would get in trouble.”
At various times, Robertson has been registered as a sex offender with both the Mountain Home Police Department and the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office.
He is accused of making unreported changes of address during the time he was registered, resulting in two arrests and the filing of two felony cases.
According to court records, he was initially required to register after being convicted in Missouri of the rape of a 17-year-old female in 2009.
Court records show Robertson has never been diligent in complying with sex offender registration requirements, particularly when it came to reporting where he was living.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed in 2015 he was accused of moving to Baxter County without checking in with the proper local authorities.
The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint in early December 2015 that an unregistered sex offender was living in the Buford area. When investigators talked to the home’s owners, they said Robertson had lived with them, along with his “wife” and three children. The owner said he had “evicted” the Robertson family members shortly after they moved into his residence.
Court records show that at the time Robertson was still registered as living at a residence along Wells Road in Bald Knob and that he had not registered his move to Baxter County in the 10-day period allowed by law.
In the 2015 case, Robertson was sentenced to three years-probation.
Robertson was arrested again in early January 2022 after it was found he had once more moved without reporting the change.
He pled guilty to a charge of failure to comply with registration/reporting requirements, a Class C Felony, and was again sentenced to 3-years-probation.
Robertson’s name is not found on any current local sex offenders’ lists available to the public because of his classification.
He was classified as a “Low” Level 2 offender by the state and the law allows those type offenders not to be shown on lists available to the public.
A Low Level 2 offender presents a “moderate level” of reoffending. They are usually individuals with limited or circumscribed prior history of sexually acting out, possess some antisocial personality characteristics, predatory tendencies or deviant sexual interest or behavior patterns that could increase the general level of risk these offenders pose. They may have mild or well-controlled mental disorders, and/or developmental disabilities.
A person can be re-classified to a higher level if his record shows such a change to be justified.
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