FROM STAFF REPORTS
A former Statesville mayoral and city council candidate was charged Thursday with sexually assaulting a child following an investigation by the Statesville Police Department.
Kyle Lang Houston, 32, of Brookshire Lane, Statesville, is charged with two counts of statutory sex offense with a child by an adult and three counts of taking indecent liberties with a child. He was being held in the Iredell County Detention Center in lieu of a $500,000 bond.
The SPD began investigating after receiving a report on January 23 concerning a child who had been sexually assaulted, police said.
The 11-year-old child was interviewed at the Dove House Children’s Advocacy Center, where she disclosed the sexual assaults, according to the SPD.
The case was assigned to Cpl. Amy Dyson, who continued the investigation.
The alleged sexual assaults occurred between July and October of 2022, Dyson said.
The SPD and State Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at Houston’s townhome on Thursday and obtained additional evidence.
Each of the statutory sex offense charges is punishable by a minimum mandatory sentence of 300 months in state prison.
Houston finished fourth out of five candidates in the 2017 Statesville mayoral election, garnering 12.49 percent of the vote. In 2019, he finished fourth in a four-candidate race for the Ward 4 seat on city council with 11.16 percent of the vote.
An insurance agent, Houston also hosts a weekly radio show, “Houston’s Solutions,” on WSIC Radio.
If found guilty, he deserves the max penalty without parole!!
My thoughts and prayers go out to the child. So sad ? ??❤️
I am so saddened to hear this. Who can you trust anymore?
What a piece of trash.
I always knew he was a pervert. Prayers for the poor child.
Only the lowest form of scum would commit these crimes.
Houston, you have a problem.
I pray this child heals completely from the deep wounds caused by these actions. May she use her healing to bring light into a world that is too filled with hideous perpetrators.
Only a scum bag would commit these crimes.
A politician whose a pervert? Who’d a ever thunk it!
How awful! Only a disgusting human being would commit such crimes.
Yep another perverted politician who acts all high and mighty. Not surprised. He always gave me the creeps.
I feel so bad for the victim, and now Kyle Houston is behind bars where he belongs! Thank you to the law enforcement that got this man off the streets. I just hope there aren’t more victims.
If he’s convicted, lock him up and throw away the key!
This is just a terrible situation, either Kyle is innocent and his life is ruined or he’s an absolute monster. If he’s innocent, then the child is being groomed to be saying these things about him. Either way, this child is a victim and we need to be praying for her and that the truth comes out for justice to be served.
Kyle needs to apologize to the dozen people that voted for him!!!!