A judge has set a second trial date for an appliance repairman accused of committing indecent liberties with a child during a January 2008 incident in Lawrence.

Jurors in May were unable to reach a verdict during the first trial. Prosecutors accuse the 59-year-old Baldwin City man, who has worked for the Lawrence repair company for 32 years, of exposing himself to a 4-year-old girl when he was on a service call inside her home.

During the first trial, the defendant denied wrongdoing and said he had only tickled the girl’s foot as she sat on a couch inside her home. The child’s mother was in another part of the house while the defendant fixed the family’s dryer.

The man faces one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

Douglas County District Judge Peggy Kittel on Tuesday scheduled the new jury trial for July 29. The defendant remains free on $25,000 bond.

The Journal-World generally does not identify sex-crime defendants unless they have been convicted.