HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A 59-year-old Hutchinson man arrested back on May 29 by Reno County Sheriff’s Detectives on child sex charges entered a plea to a single count of indecent liberties Thursday morning.
Harold Dryden was charged with two counts of electronic solicitation of a child 14 to 16 years of age, two counts of indecent liberties with a child in the same age range and sexual exploitation of a child for having possession of a visual depiction of a child under 18, but again entered the plea to the single count.
Dryden was a mentor at Victory Village in eastern Reno County and the crimes involved a child who was here from Colorado. The time frame for the crimes is between May of 2010 and January of 2012.
The alleged crimes were not reported until last year, which began the investigation by detectives with the sheriff’s office.
Dryden is free on a $50,000 bond and sentencing will be in January.