{"id":424916,"date":"2026-01-23T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424916\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:52:08","slug":"convicted-sex-offender-returned-to-kentucky-for-sentencing-after-fleeing-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424916\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted sex offender returned to Kentucky for sentencing after fleeing United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GRAYSON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; A convicted sex offender was returned to Grayson County for sentencing after fleeing the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">William Lee \u201cScott\u201d Carter was arrested June 11, 2023, and later pled guilty to one count of rape in the second degree, four counts of rape in the third degree and one count of sexual abuse in the first degree, according to Kentucky State Police Trooper Bryan Washer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Photo from Kentucky State Police\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/VCCLKCM6FJC2POZWDBRQVKFPP4.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Photo from Kentucky State Police(wkyt)<a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/page\/wkyt-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WKYT Streaming Apps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MEPHTWNVMREWLEQQWWFJM27ZMA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In September 2025, before his sentencing date, Carter fled the United States, Washer said, and was later located and temporarily lodged in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kentucky State Police traveled to Chicago on Wednesday, Jan. 21 to transport Carter back to Grayson County, where he is now lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Washer said no further details would be released at this time due to the nature of the crimes and to protect the identity of the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WKYT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAYSON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; A convicted sex offender was returned to Grayson County for sentencing after fleeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,202343,157,202337,202340,202342,202341,202333,144716,3,18181,202339,202344,202338,21,19,22,20,25,24,202334,202336,202335],"class_list":["post-424916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bryan-washer","tag-chicago","tag-convicted-sex-offender","tag-fled","tag-fled-united-states","tag-flee","tag-grayson-county","tag-kentucky-state-police","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-returned","tag-returned-to-kentucky","tag-sex-offender","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-william-carter","tag-william-lee-scott-carter","tag-william-lee-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}