The Crawford County prosecutor’s announced that a man convicted in 1998 for engaging in sexual contact with a 5-year-old female is relocating to Cedarville.
Gary Freeman was recently paroled and will be residing at the 1500 block of Dorothy Drive in Cedarville.
Freeman was convicted of first degree sexual abuse in 1998.
Freeman is a poster boy for the revolving door criminal justice system in Arkansas having been in and out of prison nine times for various felony convictions since 1989.
After a couple of traffic convictions in the late 80’s, Freeman graduated to the big time with convictions September of 1989 and September and November of 1990 for theft by receiving.
Also, in November of 1990, Freeman racked up a 96-month sentence on a Class Y Felony Rape conviction earn his spot on the sex offender registry.
Less than six years later while on parole a Class C felony for failure to appear led to the revocation of that parole.
Freeman was able to dodge the man until June of 2004 when a felony conviction for failure to register as a sex offender dew him another 72-month sentence, but he was back in Crawford County traffic court in a little more than a year.
Freeman appears to have been an upright citizen for almost two years before forgetting to register as a sex offender earned him a ten-year sentence in May of 2008.
That ten year spot turned into three years, and Freeman was back in court by 2011 for traffic charges. Freeman then added a conviction for harassment and criminal trespass to his resume in in 2013 before an aggravated assault conviction in August of 2014 earned him another 72 months of imposed sentencing.
Less than three years later he is back in Crawford County as a registered sex offender.
Freeman is one of 15 registered sex offenders who live in rural areas of Crawford County.
