A Hendersonville man faces grave charges after the local police department apprehended him for allegedly raping a child, as woven by a thread of disturbing incidents, which surfaced when a 10-year-old girl braved to voice the assaults to the authorities. In a clinical recitation of the dire facts, without the lace of prose or the depth of a novel's page, according to FOX 17, 34-year-old Matthew Cody Ball was arrested and charged on May 2 with one count of Rape of a Child and three counts of Aggravated Sexual Battery by the Hendersonville Police Department (HPD).
Ball's apprehension came on the heels of an investigation launched on May 1; within a short span he found himself behind bars as the case rapidly unraveled, shedding a stark light on actions that defy the innocence of childhood with terrifying clarity, authorities said he is being charged with one count of rape of a child and three counts of aggravated sexual battery and they are not revelations to be tucked gently into the fabric of polite society, as detailed by WKRN.
The alleged incidences purportedly occurred on May 1 and April 15, and the young girl disclosed to an officer at HPD headquarters that the abuses had spanned several years; a continuum of torment purportedly inflicted by Ball, now confined at the Sumner County Jail with the bond set at a substantial $200,000, an alarming narrative unwoven from reluctant lips of a child but nonetheless shared with the police, as retold in the bleak lines of a police affidavit filed in Sumner County General Sessions Court.
Detective Jim Bachman has been tasked with threading together the strands of truth in this case, taking the helm of an investigation that remains ongoing while Ball, a harbinger of this darkness onto innocence, is scheduled to appear before the Sumner County General Sessions Court on May 15 at 10 a.m., a stark contrast to the warm light of spring morning, police ask anyone with information on this case to call and report the information to Detective Jim Bachman.
