Former Vanceburg Man Charged with Sexual Abuse

By Christy Hoots
Ledger Independent
May 7, 2015

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VANCEBURG | A former Vanceburg resident is facing charges of sexual abuse and has been extradited from his home in Indiana after being indicted by a Lewis County grand jury.

Kentucky State Police Master Trooper Joe Veeneman said Duncan Aker, 63, of Greensburg, Ind., was recently arrested and charged with five counts first-degree sexual abuse and four counts of sodomy, after an indictment was handed down against Aker in April.

A representative with the Greensburg, Ind. Police Department said Aker was arrested on May 3, on a warrant from Vanceburg, but no further information was available.

"The investigation into the incidents took about three to four months," Veeneman said. "Then we had to wait on the extradition from Indiana."

According to the indictment, Aker allegedly engaged in sexual intercourse and sexual contact through forcible compulsion with a male under the age of 12 between October 2007 and March 2010.

The indictment also states that Aker allegedly committed some of the offenses in the church where he was minister.

According to Veeneman, Aker is the former pastor of the Vanceburg Christian Church. He is also listed as the pastor for the Greensburg, Ind. Christian Church.

Aker has been lodged in the Lewis County Detention Center, where he remains on a $200,000 bond, according to his arrest citation.