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Portion of the arrest affidavits in Kenneth Soap's cases were entirely redacted by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office.

While investigating a man’s alleged sex crimes against children, Lawrence police found video evidence that the man had raped two women and sexually abused a dog, according to recently released arrest affidavits.

The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office and the attorney for defendant Kenneth W. Soap had asked a judge to keep the affidavits from being seen by the public, as the Journal-World reported, but Judge Amy Hanley released the affidavits late last week, with some parts heavily or entirely redacted per the prosecutor’s request.

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Kenneth Wayne Soap, left, appears with his attorney Branden Smith Wednesday in Douglas County District Court.

Soap has multiple cases pending in Douglas County District Court. His attorney, Branden Smith, recently told Hanley that the parties were attempting, with potential federal involvement, to achieve a “global resolution” for all of Soap’s cases — that is, to streamline the legal process with a single plea rather than all of his cases, including charges that he sexually preyed on underage girls, moving separately through the justice system.

The recently released affidavits — sworn documents by police outlining their reasons for arrest a person — pertain to cases in which Soap is charged with rape, aggravated sexual battery, aggravated criminal sodomy and criminal sodomy with an animal. Allegations in affidavits have not been proved in court.

The affidavits, sworn to in June and August of last year, depict Soap as a man who sexually attacked young female friends while they were asleep or passed-out drunk and who sexually abused one of the women’s dogs. Video of the incidents, which happened more than 10 years ago, were found on a laptop owned by Soap, according to the indictment.

The man in the videos, which do not show his face because they were taken from his point of view, had a “TECHNICS” tattoo on his arm that matched one on Soap’s left arm. TECHNICS is a brand of audio equipment used by DJs. Soap had worked as a DJ at the time, one women said, and he got the tattoo to mark a year of sobriety. In one of the affidavits, a former spouse of Soap’s told police he had a “major problem with alcohol” and would become physically violent.

Police had seized numerous electronic and digital storage devices from Soap’s bedroom to investigate the child sex crimes he was facing. As they reviewed the devices, they found evidence of the separate sex crimes, leading to the additional charges against Soap. The devices also contained numerous sexually explicit photographs that the women said they never consented to.

One of the women told police that she didn’t believe the kind of sexual assault depicted in the images had happened only once. She said, “I know sober me would’ve never in my life ever gotten involved sexually with this individual.”

Soap, 45, has been in jail since his initial arrest two years ago, on a bond of $250,000.

Soap had also been charged with sexually targeting middle school students, but those charges were dismissed in anticipation of federal charges. As of Monday morning, no federal charges had been filed.

In his motion to seal the affidavits in the most recent cases, Senior Assistant District Attorney Ricardo Leal did not list a specific reason but cited a paragraph in state law that said affidavits could be kept from the public if their release “would jeopardize the physical, mental or emotional safety or well-being of a victim, witness, confidential source or undercover agent, or cause the destruction of evidence.”

Judge Hanley opted to release the affidavits with redactions by Leal.

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Kenneth Wayne Soap