UPDATE 2. GPD: Accused rapist's crimes not a one-time thing

WEDNESDAY MORNING UPDATE:

Gainesville Police have released more information about the case of a Gainesville man, Kenley Alvin Desir, 53, who was arrested a few days ago on several sex-related charges involving a young girl.

“The rapist was charged after a child related to him came forward advising of sexual misconduct over many years,” police spokesman Kevin Holbrook said late Tuesday.

Desir remained in the Hall County Jail Tuesday night. No bond has been set.

MONDAY NIGHT UPDATE: A 53-year-old Gainesville man, Kenley Alvin Desir, accused of rape and several other sex-related charges involving a young girl remained in the Hall County Jail Monday night without bond.

But Gainesville Police did not release any new information on the case Monday.

“Report not complete at this time,” is all spokesman Kevin Holbrook would say in an email response to a request for more information.

EARLIER STORY. POSTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON: (A) rape charge was filed against a 53-year-old man who is also charged with sodomy (2 counts), aggravated sodomy (2 counts), incest, aggravated child molestation, and cruelty to children in the first degree. He’s being held without bond in the Hall County Jail following his Saturday arrest.

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Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.