A Uniontown man is being held without bond in the Perry County Jail on human trafficking and child sex charges stemming from alleged abuse that dates back to 2022.
According to Perry County District Court records, Richard Thomas Vanderslice, 60, of Uniontown, was arrested Feb. 4, 2026, by Uniontown Police Chief Michael Kiser. Two separate felony cases were filed against him Feb. 6.
In one case, Vanderslice is charged with first-degree human trafficking, sexual abuse of a child less than 12, and first-degree sodomy. The complaint alleges that in 2022 he recruited and maintained a six-year-old child for sexual servitude, sexually abused the child, committed sodomy by forcible compulsion, and gave the child something of value while instructing the child not to tell.
In the second case, Vanderslice is charged with sexual abuse of a child less than 12 and first-degree sodomy involving an eleven-year-old child. That complaint alleges that, also in 2022, he subjected the child to sexual contact and sodomy by forcible compulsion.
First-degree human trafficking and first-degree sodomy are Class A felonies under Alabama law. Sexual abuse of a child less than 12 is a Class B felony. No bond had been set as of Feb. 6, and court records list Vanderslice’s status as “jail.”
