IRWINTON, Ga. — A Wilkinson County businessman remains jailed without bond charged with child molestation and incest. 

The alleged crimes reportedly happened over a three-year period in Wilkinson and Putnam counties, authorities say, involving a 15-year-old Milledgeville girl. 

Wilkinson County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Kevin Hollingsworth identified the suspect as David Alan Dixon, who has a McIntyre address in Wilkinson County.

The 41-year-old Dixon, who operates a pressure washing business in several Georgia counties around Lake Sinclair and Lake Oconee, is charged with three counts of child molestation and three counts of incest, Hollingsworth told the newspaper during an interview at his office last Thursday. 

All six charges are felony offenses.

After learning that authorities were securing warrants for his arrest on the charges, Dixon turned himself in to authorities at the Wilkinson County Law Enforcement Center in Irwinton on Aug. 31, Hollingsworth said.

He remains held without bond, the investigator said.

Hollingsworth said during the course of the investigation that he had interviewed the victim on two different occasions.

He said the victim provided him the name of the person who sexually assaulted her at undisclosed locations in Wilkinson and Putnam counties.

Since both counties are within the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit, the cases can be merged for prosecution purposes, Hollingsworth said.

Asked if he had talked with Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills or any of his detectives about the alleged crime or crimes there, Hollingsworth indicated he had not yet gotten that deep into the investigation.

Hollingsworth said the probe thus far had revealed that the sexual assaults happened at least once a week for the past three years, dating back to when the victim was 12.

“Based on her calculation these sexual assaults happened at least 150 times,” Hollingsworth said. “We’re looking at the possibility of 150 times, plus.”

The investigator said the charges against Dixon are based on one count each of child molestation and incest over the last three years.

The charges against Dixon related to incest were brought against him because the victim is what Hollingsworth described as an “immediate family member.”

Asked how complicated such a criminal case is for him based on the victim’s contention that the crimes happened multiple times, it didn’t take the investigator long to respond.

“It makes it very complicated because now I have to corroborate [the victim’s] story for the last three years,” Hollingsworth said.

The investigator said the suspect has been told by his attorney not to talk with the sheriff’s office about the case.

Dixon is represented by south Georgia attorney John Forehand.

“He (defense attorney) told me right off the bat that he wasn’t going to allow his client to give a statement,” Hollingsworth said. “Right now, the only thing I have to go off of is [the victim’s] statements, what she’s telling me, because he (Dixon) has not given me a statement.”

Hollingsworth said he had interviewed the suspect’s wife and that her husband told her “that he had been having an inappropriate relationship with her daughter.”

He did not reveal any specifics, publicly.

The investigator said he is working with special agents with the GBI Region 6 Office in Milledgeville on the case. 

Hollingsworth said the GBI was contacted a few days after the alleged crimes were reported to the sheriff’s office.

Asked where the investigation was at this point, Hollingsworth said he is in the process of finding “any and everything” that can help them with the furtherance of the case.

A number of search warrants have been executed thus far in the investigation, Hollingsworth said.

“I’m probably going to be executing a few more pertaining to this case,” Hollingsworth said, noting that some of those warrants may be related to cellphone records and electronic devices.