Registered sex offender arrested on new sexual abuse charges in Mitchellville

(Mitchellville, Iowa)A central Iowa man has been charged with three counts of second-degree sexual abuse for allegedly abusing a young girl staying at his home in 2022.

Mitchellville police officers arrested Skyler Terry, 35, of Des Moines, on Tuesday for the abuse allegedly carried out in the basement of his former residence in Mitchellville.

According to a criminal complaint, in January of this year the girl “disclosed to her mother allegations of sexual abuse perpetrated by (Terry).” Court documents show that the girl stayed at Terry’s home on three occasions in June 2022 while her mother was traveling, and the abuse “occurred repeatedly during her visits.”

Terry has been on the Iowa Sex Offender Registry since 2007 when he was convicted of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse of a girl 13 or younger.