Lake Worth civic volunteer arrested in child sex-abuse case

A 71-year-old member of Lake Worth’s Planning and Zoning Commission was in the Tarrant County Jail on Monday night facing a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, authorities said.

Armin Glenn Ingram was arrested July 24 after a Lake Worth police detective investigated a report that a child was abused at a private residence more than one time during February 2013, said Brett McGuire, Lake Worth’s city manager and interim police chief.

McGuire declined to give the age or sex of the child.

“We are quite limited in what we can talk about or divulge because it does involve a minor,” he said.

Ingram’s bail is set at $200,000.

The City Council will consider at its Aug. 11 meeting whether to remove him from the Planning and Zoning Commission, McGuire said.

In 2004, Ingram appeared in a Star-Telegram voters guide when he ran for Lake Worth City Council. He said he was retired from Lucent Technologies where he was a systems engineer.

Continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 is a first-degree-felony punishable by life in prison, or no more than 99 years or less than 25 years.

Lake Worth detectives are investigating whether there were other victims, McGuire said.

This story was originally published August 3, 2015 at 7:05 PM with the headline "Lake Worth civic volunteer arrested in child sex-abuse case."