A Marble City man charged in July with felony sexual battery, first degree rape, and sodomy – victim mentally incapacitated, is now scheduled for a Dec. 14 jury trial sounding docket, according to Sequoyah County court records.

Darrell W. Rogers, 69, pled not guilty to his charges and received a $45,000 bond on Aug. 16.

Sallisaw Police Detective Jeffrey Craghead reported receiving a flash drive containing a large amount of video footage from a reporting party on July 20. The reporting party claimed the footage contained audio and video clips of Rogers allegedly sexually abusing an elderly victim, according to the probable cause affidavit filed in the case.

The reporting party said the alleged victim had been diagnosed with late onset Alzheimer’s and dementia, and could not communicate effectively. It was also noted that the alleged victim was very childlike in behavior.

The alleged incidents provided by the reporting party occurred between June 2 and July 17, 2023, at a residence on Bluff Drive.

Craghead said when he opened the flash drive, the files didn’t have names that corresponded with any known date or time. The reporting party claimed when they saved the files to their phone, it changed the names of them. The detective said due to the large number of files on the flash drive it would take some time to locate all the footage.

Craghead then provided details from two videos that reportedly showed Rogers touching the alleged victim’s buttocks and breasts in an inappropriate manner.