“It’s unbelievable,” Sgt. Dirk Feneley of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department in Independence Township said of the alleged actions of Guy Robert Lendrum.
The 32-year-old Independence Township resident was charged Thursday, Dec. 4 before Judge Michael Batchik at the 52-2 District Court in Clarkston with 12 counts of sexual assault on children, ranging in age from 18 months to 12-years-old and including his son and daughter.
Lendrum’s alleged actions have led to a network of other adults from at least six other states and one other country, who exchanged child pornography via computer.
The investigation is being led by the OCSD, FBI and U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
Lendrum, who lived in the Clinton Villa Mobile Home Park and was a ticket taker at Star Theaters at Great Lakes Crossing, is the first to be charged.
Two other Michigan men, Michael Jackson, 25, of Grand Blanc, and Brian Urbanawiz, 30, of Midland were arraigned Friday, Dec. 5 in an alleged connection with Lendrum. Jackson is charged with two seven-year felonies of child sexually abusive activity; and Urbanawiz with six 20-year felonies of sexually abusive activity and using the computer to communicate such crimes. Both remain in custody in lieu of cash bonds.
Lendrum was arrested Friday, Nov. 14, though Feneley said he is not giving details of how authorities were led to the suspect, since the case is ongoing.
He is officially charged with seven counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct involving various types of penetration, four second degree counts of criminal sexual conduct involving contact, and one count of child abusive activity involving a computer.
Charges stem from attacks on six child victims. Two of the alleged victims are his own children, an 18-month-old girl and a five-year-old boy, though Feneley said Lendrum is not being charged with any assaults on his daughter because she is not old enough to give a testimony of what occurred. The other victims are three seven-year-old neighbor girls as well as a 19-year-old man, who alleges three sexual attacks in 1992. The rest of the crimes allegedly occurred in the current year.
“He’s a predator,” Feneley said, baffled how someone could take advantage of young people, let alone his own kids.
Lendrum is in custody under bonds totaling $2.7 million. A preliminary exam is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 15 at 10:30 a.m. If convicted he could face life in prison.