Updated:Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright said a man arrested Wednesday on child sex charges involving two teenage boys has admitted to incidents involving four additional victims.
| Jeffery Dorsten |
Sheriff’s department investigators arrested Jeffery Dorsten, 42, of the Westpark Lakes community near Grand Parkway and F.M. 1093, and charged him with one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child.
Dorsten is being held in Fort Bend County Jail in Richmond in lieu of a total bond of $1.5 million.
“At this point he’s made admissions to” incidents involving “six victims, including the two that came forward” and gave statements that led to Dorsten’s arrest, Sheriff Wright said in a Thursday afternoon press conference.
Wright said investigators believe there could be “dozens” of other victims, adding “it really at this point depends on how many people come forward.”
While he said “my statement of more victims is speculation,” the sheriff added he bases it on his experience that “these things don’t happen in a vacuum.” Wright said the crimes Dorsten admitted to happened over a 10-year period, leading him to conclude it’s probable more victims will surface.
Dorsten’s arrest Wednesday came after two alleged victims of crimes committed five years ago came forward and told police about the incidents, said sheriff’s department spokeswoman Terriann Carlson.
“Their statement was, we don’t want to see any other kids being hurt in this way,” Wright said, adding the two were cousins.
After the two came forward, the department assigned four detectives to the case, the sheriff said. “The team worked on it pretty much non-stop since yesterday” except for a brief time-out to sleep, “and now they’re out in the field again.”
Wright added that “detectives are running down a number of leads, addresses and numbers that were in possession of the defendant.”
It appears that Dorsten – an engineer for a major oil company with no prior criminal record, and who lived alone – befriended families of teenage boys in his neighborhood, offering “gifts, games, money,” Sheriff Wright said.
All six alleged victims had been neighbor children. The two who gave statements to detectives said the incidents Dorsten is charged with occurred at his home. The other four have not yet given statements to investigators, Wright said.
“We know that he has spent time with and placed himself in areas around children,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement Thursday morning. “We also know that he has recently been a volunteer at the YMCA in the Cinco Ranch area.”
YMCA spokeswoman Trazanna Moreno said Dorsten had recently volunteered as an assistant basketball coach at the Cinco Ranch Y, but had only served in that capacity for two days, volunteering for an hour each day.
“At no time was he ever alone with children,” Moreno said.
The sheriff’s department is “asking for anyone who has had contact with Jeffery Dorsten to contact the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office Special Crimes Unit,” by calling Det. R. Womble at 281-341-4796, or Det. J. Dale at 281-341-4776, the department said in a statement.
“If they are a victim or suspect their friend is a victim – any information they can give us at all” would be helpful, Wright said. He added that people who want to provide information anonymously can call Fort Bend Crime Stoppers, at 281-342-8477.
Sheriff’s department investigators arrested Jeffery Dorsten, 42, of the Westpark Lakes community near Grand Parkway and F.M. 1093, and charged him with one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child.
Dorsten is being held in Fort Bend County Jail in Richmond in lieu of a total bond of $1.5 million.
“At this point he’s made admissions to” incidents involving “six victims, including the two that came forward” and gave statements that led to Dorsten’s arrest, Sheriff Wright said in a Thursday afternoon press conference.
Wright said investigators believe there could be “dozens” of other victims, adding “it really at this point depends on how many people come forward.”
While he said “my statement of more victims is speculation,” the sheriff added he bases it on his experience that “these things don’t happen in a vacuum.” Wright said the crimes Dorsten admitted to happened over a 10-year period, leading him to conclude it’s probable more victims will surface.
