Cocaine, fully automatic firearms also seized in sweep
By Staff Reports
The Arkadelphian
Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Turner announced on Wednesday, July 13, that multiple charges related to allegations of child sexual assaults involving 11 different minor children have been filed in Pike County Circuit Court and Clark County Circuit Court against Barry Alan Walker.
Turner was previously appointed special prosecutor in Pike County concerning the matters involving Walker pursuant to an order of the Pike County Circuit Court.
Walker, a 58-year-old resident of Glenwood, was arrested on June 9 following initial allegations of sexual assault reported to the Pike County Sheriff’s Department. The investigation, headed by Investigator John Jones of the 9th-West Judicial District Drug Task Force together with Pike County Sheriff Travis Hill and members of the Pike County Sheriff’s Department, resulted in Walker’s arrest in Pike County for allegations of rape and other offenses against several minor children.
Further investigation led to additional arrest warrants for Walker served by Clark County Sheriff Jason Watson for separate offenses occurring in Clark County. Turner announced multiple charges were filed against Walker in Pike County Circuit Court involving seven separate minor females. These filings included separate counts for the following offenses:
• Rape;
• Computer Exploitation of a Child;
• Producing, Directing, or Promoting a Sexual Performance by a Child;
• Engaging Children in Sexually Explicit Conduct for Use in Visual or Print Medium; and
• Distributing, Possessing, or Viewing of Matter Depicting Sexually Explicit Conduct Involving a Child.
An additional Criminal Information was filed in Pike County Circuit Court which included felony allegations of:
• Simultaneous Possession of Drugs and Firearms;
• Possession of Firearms by Certain Persons;
• Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Deliver; and
• Distributing, Possessing, or Viewing of Matter Depicting Sexually Explicit Conduct involving a Child.
The Pike County charges include 14 class Y felonies, 17 class B felonies, and 8 class C felonies. Additionally, Walker was charged in Clark County Circuit Court for allegations of rape against four other minor children and additional similar felony charges. These filings include 4 class Y felonies, 12 class B felonies, and 4 class C felonies.
Walker is being held in the Pike County Jail and is scheduled for arraignment in Pike County Circuit Court on July 18 at 9 a.m. and in Clark County Circuit Court on July 19 at 9 a.m. Charges filed are merely accusations and a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
Sheriff Watson, Sheriff Hill and Investigator Jones are continuing the investigation at this time. Individuals with information regarding this investigation are encouraged to contact the respective law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation.
On June 9 officers served a search warrant at Walker’s home and seized seven firearms, two of which were fully automatic submachine guns. The two submachine guns and two semi-automatic handguns were located in a horse trailer on Walker’s property, according to one of several affidavits filed Wednesday.
Also in the horse trailer, law enforcement located 3.7 grams of cocaine, “several thousand homemade videos and pictures of child pornography, as well as several thousand dowloaded videos and pictures of child pornography.”
WARNING: The details below are disturbing. Reader discretion is advised.
Affidavits indicate that three of the six Pike County victims told a forensic interviewer that Barry had raped them; the three others were identified in videos confiscated from Walker’s residence. According to the affidavits, Walker admitted to molesting “multiple juveniles,” some of them on “multiple occasions.”
Each of the alleged rapes occurred at Walker’s residence in Glenwood. While the affidavits do not provide a total sum of incidents, investigators confiscated videos that showed Walker raping the victims over a span of years. Walker allegedly recorded the rapes, as law enforcement gathered video evidence dating between 2017 to 2021. Some of the acts were recorded with the same victims over a span of four years.
The four Clark County victims relayed that the rapes had occurred at Walker’s Amity residence. One of those victims recalled Walker showed her child pornography on a computer and touched himself while she sat on his lap.
Walker allegedly recorded the Clark County rapes, as well, with video evidence suggesting the acts were recorded between 2006 and 2010. Again, acts with one of the victims spanned nearly four years.
All 11 of the victims were under age 14 at the time of the rapes, according to the affidavits.
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