{"id":71661,"date":"2017-02-21T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-charged-with-sex-assault-on-child\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:50:14","slug":"durango-man-charged-with-sex-assault-on-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-charged-with-sex-assault-on-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango man charged with sex assault on child"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=80373d06-3d55-45a3-b08c-150640a364ea&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Blevins\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blevins<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Frederick Blevins is accused of touching the girl below the waist while she was being babysat by another adult Feb. 5 in the Hermosa area, according to an arrest affidavit filed in 6th Judicial District Court in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>Blevins was arrested Feb. 9 and remained in jail Friday on $75,000 bail. His public defense lawyer plans to argue for lower bail at a March 3 court hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Blevins, who was drinking alcohol at the time of the alleged incident, gave mixed answers in response to questions about what happened. During a conversation that was recorded by the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office, he at times said he didn\u2019t remember anything that happened; at other times he apologized for \u201cwhatever\u201d happened; and at other times he said nothing inappropriate happened, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>The girl repeated her statements about being touched inappropriately to a nurse examiner and during a forensic interview with law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blevinsdu1-i-syn Frederick Blevins is accused of touching the girl below the waist while she was being babysat by another adult Feb. 5 in the Hermosa area, according to an arrest affidavit filed in 6th Judicial District Court in Durango. Blevins was arrested Feb. 9 and remained in jail Friday on $75,000 bail. His public defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,133,168,524],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-sexual-assault"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71661"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}