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Santa Claus-playing tutor charged in another child sex abuse case in Shelby County
A longtime math tutor in the Birmingham metropolitan area has been charged in another sex abuse case involving a second victim.
Carl Frog Price, 66, of Leeds, was charged this week with first-degree sexual abuse, according to court records made public Friday.
Details of the new case have not been made public, but charging documents state the reported crime happened in 2001. Authorities confirmed to AL.com that the victim was a child.
Price was first arrested and booked into the Shelby County Jail on May 20 on a charge of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12. In that case, a grand jury in April brought the charge for an alleged incident in 1997.
Price, who also has played Santa Claus for years, is well-known on social media where he has long advertised his tutoring services.
It was those advertisements on Facebook that prompted a woman to contact the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office in October 2024, telling them she had been the victim of inappropriate behavior by Price, authorities said.
Detectives interviewed her and said they quickly determined this was a “confirmed crime of the most heinous nature.”
Investigators said the incident in 1997 involved unwanted touching and happened at the victim’s home.
Following Price’s first arrest last month, Shelby County sheriff’s officials asked for help locating other potential victims. At that point, three more potential victims had already come forward but did not live in Shelby County.
Chief Deputy Clay Hammac said at the time they anticipated more charges against Price.
Price’s bond was initially set at $15,000. It is now set at $115,000.
Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at 205-670-6255 or by email at swatkins@shelbyso.com. Tips can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777 or via email at www.crimestoppersmetroal.com.
Suspect arrested following investigation into alleged rape of child several years ago
A man is facing multiple counts of rape following an investigation that began in June of last year.
New Castle County Police said Friday that at that time, the alleged victim reported that the assaults occurred between 2017 and 2019. The alleged victim was between five and seven years old at the time of the alleged incidents.
Police said arrest warrants were issued in April for 34-year-old Santos Aguilar-Aguilar, and it was believed that he may have left the country. However, detectives found him in the Bear area last week.
Aguilar-Aguilar is now being held at Howard R. Young Correctional Institution on these charges:
-One felony count of Continuous sexual abuse of a child
-One felony count of sexual abuse of a child by a person of trust, first degree
-One felony count of sexual abuse of a child by a person of trust, second degree
-One felony count of unlawful sexual contact with a person under 13 years of age
-One misdemeanor count of resisting arrest
Bail for Aguilar-Aguilar has been set at $4-million.
Grimes County man receives 5 life
terms for child sex crimes
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Published: Jun. 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM PDT|Updated: 21 hours ago
GRIMES COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - A Bedias man received five life sentences this week in connection to charges of possessing illicit imagery of children as well as the sexual abuse of at least one child.
In November 2023, a Montgomery County detective with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) division went undercover and gained contact with a man identified as Taggert Thomason, who was 24 years old at the time. During the undercover operation, Thomason sent three videos containing child sex abuse material (CSAM) to the detective.
Days later, a warrant was obtained to search Thomason’s Bedias home, and his cellphone was seized. The case was then turned over to ICAC investigators in Grimes County.
Phone data showed more than 150 videos of CSAM, according to a release from the Grimes County District Attorney’s Office. “Some of the videos depicted young children being sexually assaulted,” the release reads in part.
By December 2023, Thomason was formally charged for 10 counts of Child Pornography- each count a first-degree felony. This February, Thomason pleaded guilty to half of those charges.
During his trial, it was revealed through testimony and testimonial evidence that Thomason had been violent and sexually abusive towards multiple children. When he took the stand, the DA’s office said Thomason admitted to sexually abusing one boy.
On Wednesday, Thomason’s sentencing hearing was finally held. He was sentenced to five “stacked life sentences.”
Grimes County ADA Meagan Ghormley noted in the release, “The videos recovered in this case were the most disturbing child pornography the investigators working the case have come across, and they deal with this type of offense on a weekly basis. Thomason has already victimized multiple minors. He is a pedophile and he should remain in custody for the safety of the community for the remainder of his life.”
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