PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Daviess County sex offender is facing charges in Pike County for allegedly failing to keep authorities apprised of his address.

Benjamin Alexander Simmons, 54, of Owensboro, is now facing a charge of failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. That charge carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, if he is convicted.

Simmons pleaded guilty in 2024 to first-degree sexual abuse and meth possession and was given a three-year sentence. According to the sex offender registry, the victim in the case was 3 years old.

He had given his last address as Westcare’s Hal Rogers Recovery Center at Ashcamp, but authorities say he left that facility Oct. 28 and never updated his address. He was arrested last week on outstanding warrants out of Daviess County.

He is currently being held without bond in the Daviess County Detention Center.