MONROE — Two months after charges were filed against him in Green County Circuit Court, an arrest warrant remains in effect for a former New Glarus man accused of sexually assaulting two young girls over a period of several years.

Kyle Evan Bearden, 27, faces two Class B felony counts of first-degree child sexual assault involving intercourse with a child younger than 12 and two Class I felony counts of exposing genitals to a child. The charges together carry a maximum imprisonment of 127 years.

Bearden’s last known address was on West Magee Road in Tucson, Arizona.

Similar allegations were brought to police in Arizona, said Green County District Attorney Craig Nolen, but no charges have been filed against Bearden as a result.

“There was nothing ever filed out in Arizona,” Nolen said.

Online court records for federal courts and Pima County, Arizona, show no results for Bearden besides a closed divorce case.

Nolen said his office has “multiple child sexual assault cases with warrants out,” including cases against 33-year-old Luke Zechariah Coldiron, whose last known address is in Palatka, Florida, and 29-year-old Joshua Brian Hopkins, whose last known address is in Madisonville, Kentucky. Both cases were filed with warrants in 2016.

“People can lie low once these warrants are out,” Nolen said. 

At least one of the men, Hopkins, is aware of the warrant out for his arrest, Nolen added.

The investigation into Bearden started in May when a high school psychologist in Green County contacted police with concerns about a student.

According to the criminal complaint, filed in July:

The psychologist reported that for a class assignment the student had written an essay “about being sexually abused over the course of five years, beginning at the age of 8.”

Investigators found that the abuse was “sexual, physical and mental in nature” and “almost always” occurred when a younger girl, who reported similar abuse by Bearden, was present.

In a forensic interview, one of the girls estimated that Bearden touched them sexually and physically assaulted them about four out of seven days in a week, multiple times a day.

One time, when she told him to stop touching her, she said he shoved her up against a wall and threatened her.

She said when she and the other girl confided in another adult about the abuse, the adult either didn’t believe them or told them they “deserved it.” When that adult eventually did confront Bearden, he reportedly called the person “stupid” and “crazy.”

Two adults familiar with Bearden told investigators he kept “stashes” of women’s underwear, including a pillowcase full of them in his bedroom. These stashes reportedly included underwear from the victims.

Court records show one other criminal case against Bearden in Wisconsin. In 2012 in Green County, he pleaded no contest and was granted a deferred prosecution on a misdemeanor charge of domestic

abuse-related battery, with conditions that he go to anger management counseling, attend quarterly monitoring conferences and pay a fine. The criminal complaint indicates he punched a woman in the face and violently stuffed his hand in her mouth during a dispute in April 2012.

He failed to appear for a hearing in that case in 2013 and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest, valid only in Wisconsin. The arrest warrant in the child sex assault case, by comparison, is valid for

arrest throughout the U.S.