WAKULLA COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - After a year long investigation, the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man accused of having ongoing inappropriate relationships with multiple minors.
Deputies say they began a sexual battery investigation involving several juvenile victims back in May 2016. Charges indicate at least one of the victims was under the age of 12.
The allegations were that Kenneth Carnivale, 35, had ongoing inappropriate relationships with multiple minors on various dates and at different locations.
After interviewing victims, multiple search warrants were executed. In October 2016, they interviewed Carnivale, but he denied any wrong doing.
Between then and October 2017, detectives from the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement worked together on a follow-up investigation to analyze the evidence.
On Halloween, detectives were able to obtain arrest warrants for Carnivale charging him with multiple sex crimes. The next day they arrested him and booked him into the Wakulla County Jail.
WCSO charged Kenneth Carnivale with the following crimes against children:
- 1 Count- 794.011- Sexual Assault by Custodian (Sexual Battery on victim over 12 years of age, Offender over 18 years of age)
- 1 Count- 800.04.4B- Sexual Offense- Lewd or Lascivious Battery (Encourages, forces or entices person less than 16 years of age in sexual activity)
- 1 Count- 800.04.5B- Sexual Offense- Lewd or Lascivious Molestation (Offender 18 years or older, victim less than 12 years of age)
- 2 Counts- 800.04.6A- Sexual Offense- Lewd or Lascivious Conduct (Solicits a person less than 16 years old)
- 1 Count- 827.04- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
