An Albany man is accused of sodomizing a child between 1990 and 1993 in Buchanan County.

Lewis Marshall, 57 was charged Friday in Buchanan County with a felony of sodomy stemming from Oct. 1993.

According to court documents filed in the case, Marshall is accused of sodomizing a child between the ages of five and eight between 1990 to 1993.

“According to the victim, the defendant threatened to kill the victim if the victim ever told,” said Trooper K.A. Schrage with the Missouri State Highway Patrol. “The defendant is a danger to the community because there are reportedly 6 sexual assault victims who have now been identified by this investigator. All of the reported victims were children at the time they were assaulted. These crimes have occured in multiple jurisdictions in Northwest Missouri.”

Trooper Schrage said the defendant is also alleged to have access to firearms and that it was reported several times the defendant used a firearm in the perpetration of his sexual crimes.

Marshall is currently being held without bail in the Buchanan County Jail. He’s due in court Tuesday for an arraignment.

According to Missouri Statutes, prosecutions for unlawful sexual offenses involving a person eighteen of years of age or under must be commenced within thirty years after the victim reaches the age of eighteen unless the persecutions are for rape in the first degree, forcible rape, attempted rape in the first degree, attempted forcible rape, sodomy in the first degree, forcible sodomy, kidnapping, kidnapping in the first degree, attempted sodomy in the first degree, or attempted forcible sodomy in which case such prosecutions may be commenced at any time.