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ROOSEVELT, Duchesne County — A registered sex offender with a history of drug offenses is now being accused of sexually abusing multiple women.
Robert Chester Bird, 35, of Roosevelt, was charged in June in 8th District Court with five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony. On Monday, while already incarcerated at the Duchesne County Jail, sheriff's deputies arrested him for investigation of rape, human trafficking and forcible sexual abuse.
Then on Wednesday, it was announced he was being held for investigation of additional charges of 10 counts of rape, two more counts of human trafficking and forcible sexual abuse.
Bird has been a registered sex offender in Utah since being convicted of three counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor in 2007.
In June, he was arrested and accused of having five pictures of a teenage girl on his phone that he claimed were sent to him on Snapchat.
While he was in jail, the Duchesne County Sheriff's Office began a deeper investigation into Bird that allegedly involved "multiple victims." One woman told investigators that after doing meth with Bird, she passed out and Bird sexually assaulted her while she was unable to give consent, according to a police booking affidavit. She also recounted how he inappropriately touched her on another occasion at a Roosevelt hotel, and another time he allegedly took money from a third person's bank account for "buying" the woman "as his property."
The woman claimed Bird did the same thing to other women and would get "them addicted to dope and would have sex with them," the affidavit alleges.
This investigation led to detectives identifying another alleged victim who claimed Bird "had sold her as an escort service on two occasions," starting when she was 18, an arrest report filed Wednesday states.
The woman told detectives the first time she was with Bird and another man, "they had given her a lethal dose of methamphetamine and heroin. (She) stated that she knew if she closed her eyes she would die," according to the affidavit. "(She) stated through the time of knowing Robert Bird, Robert has drugged her on multiple occasions and had sex with (her) without her consent."
