Police: Apollo man faces 10 felony charges after allowing 8-year-old to record him performing sex act

Apollo police charged a man with 10 felony counts after the father of an 8-year-old boy showed them a video on his son’s cellphone of the man performing a sex act, police said.

Matthew Alan Sinclair, 21, of the 100 block of Railroad Avenue in Apollo faces two counts of corruption of a minor, six counts of unlawful contact with a minor and two counts of disseminating explicit sexual material to a minor. He also was charged with five misdemeanor counts that include indecent exposure and open lewdness.

Sinclair is being detained in the Armstrong County Jail after failing to post a $7,500 cash bond, court records show. He faces a preliminary hearing Thursday, March 3 before District Judge James Andring. He did not have an attorney listed in court records.

Police say the boy’s father went to the police station on Jan. 10 and told them he was checking through his son’s cellphone and discovered that it was used to record a video of Sinclair performing the sex act, according to his arrest papers.

Police said Sinclair also can be seen watching a pornographic video on his cellphone as the boy is recording him.

The man said he confronted his son about the video and the boy told him he recorded it as a joke, police said.

The time stamp on the video indicates it was made shortly before 10 p.m. on Jan. 8, according to police.

The boy’s father said Sinclair was visiting his house that night and was alone with his son in the basement at the time the video was made, the complaint said.

Police said Sinclair is “clearly identified” as the person in the video, which also contains audio of the boy commenting about what Sinclair is doing.

A forensic interview with the boy was conducted on Feb. 11 but he declined to discuss the specific incident, police said.

But the boy told counselors that he knew he was being interviewed because Sinclair showed him “very bad inappropriate stuff,” the complaint said.

The boy also said that on several other occasions when Sinclair was invited to his house for bonfires, he would show him sex videos on his cellphone, according to the complaint.

The boy provided a web address for the site Sinclair told him to use, and police said they were able to confirm that it contains sexually explicit material, the complaint said.