{"id":1402357,"date":"2025-04-03T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1402357"},"modified":"2025-04-07T03:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:24:59","slug":"elderly-man-confesses-to-the-sexual-assault-of-two-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1402357","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man confesses to the sexual assault of two children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1402358\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-03-135929-e1743706817707-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-03-135929-e1743706817707-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-03-135929-e1743706817707-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-03-135929-e1743706817707.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>HENDERSON COUNTY &#8211; Our news partner, KETK, reports that an 80-year-old man was arrested on March 30, after he allegedly admitted to sexually assaulting two children in his 18-wheeler.\u00a0According to the arrest affidavit obtained through the Henderson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, on Jan. 14 deputies requested investigators to interview a suspect who sexually assaulted a five and eight-year-old more than once \u201cover a period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On March 18, investigators interviewed the suspect, Randall Tee Tidwell, 80 of Kemp, at the Henderson County help center office in Athens, Officers advised Tidwell he was free to leave and was not under arrest. During the interview, Tidwell reportedly said he participated in the sexual assault of a five-year-old and eight-year-old, more than once, in an 18-wheeler he drives for work.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTidwell said he was sorry for doing this and it never happened with any other child,\u201d the document stated.<\/p>\n<p>Tidwell was arrested for continuous sex abuse of a young child on March 30, and was released the same day from Henderson County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON COUNTY &#8211; Our news partner, KETK, reports that an 80-year-old man was arrested on March 30, after he allegedly admitted to sexually assaulting two children in his 18-wheeler.\u00a0According to the arrest affidavit obtained through the Henderson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, on Jan. 14 deputies requested investigators to interview a suspect who sexually assaulted a five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1402357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elderly man confesses to the sexual assault of two children<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1402359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-03-135929-e1743706817707-200x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 23:14:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-03-135929-e1743706817707-200x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402453,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402357\/revisions\/1402453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}