BELMONT, Maine — A convicted sex offender is being held on $10,000 cash bail after being charged this week with Class A gross sexual assault after he allegedly abused an 11-year-old girl.
Police received a report on Tuesday that Adam Cross, 44, of Belmont, allegedly had been acting in an inappropriate manner with a girl in a public place, according to a press release issued Thursday by the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office. Detective Merl Reed found and spoke to the 11-year-old, who disclosed that she had been sexually abused, according to the police report.
She is not related to Cross, who is listed as a lifetime registrant on the Maine Sex Offender registry after being convicted of multiple counts of gross sexual assault in 1998.
According to the BDN archives, Cross had been charged with gross sexual assault in 1996 after he confessed to police that he had sexually abused a 3-year-old boy at the boy’s home in Liberty.
After police arrested Cross this week, he was taken to Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset, with his bail set at $10,000 cash or $50,000 surety.