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Oxford, MS, man arrested for inappropriately touching a child

Willie "Roy" Carter was arrested this weekend.
Credit: Lafayette County Sheriff's Department
Willie "Roy" Carter

OXFORD, Miss — An Oxford, Mississippi man is behind bars, accused of inappropriately touching a child.

56-year-old Willie “Roy” Carter” was arrested Saturday by investigators with the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department. Carter is charged with “touching of a child for lustful purposes.”

Details on what led to the arrest have not been released.

Carter remains in the Lafayette County Detention Center on $50,000 bond.

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