A longtime math tutor in the Birmingham metropolitan area has been charged with sex abuse of a child in a decades old case, and authorities say more potential victims have now come forward.

Carl Frog Price, 66, of Leeds, was booked into the Shelby County Jail on May 20 following an April grand injury indictment for first-degree sex abuse of a child under the age of 12.

Price remains held with bond set at $15,000. He is set to be arraigned in July.

Court records do not yet list an attorney to comment on Price’s behalf.

Price, who also has played Santa Claus for years, is well-known on social media where he has long advertised his tutoring services.

It was those advertisements on Facebook that prompted a woman to contact the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office in October 2024, telling them she had been the victim of inappropriate behavior by Price, authorities said.

“She didn’t want anyone else to be victimized by this guy,” said sheriff’s Lt. Jud Barnes, who leads the SCSO’s investigative division.

Detectives interviewed her and Barnes said they quickly determined this was a “confirmed crime of the most heinous nature.”

Under Alabama law, a person commits the crime of sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old if he or she, being 16 years old or older, subjects another person who is less than 12 years old to sexual contact.

Sexual contact means any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party.

The alleged incident happened at the victim’s home in 1997.

The victim’s brother was in one room studying and the victim was in another room when, authorities say, she was subjected to unwanted touching.

The alleged abuse did not rise to the level of rape or forced sexual contact beyond unwanted touching, groping, physical contact.

Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Clay Hammac said the victim was insistent that no one else fell victim the same way that she did nearly 30 years ago.

“One of the first things our investigators do, especially when there is such a lengthy delay of time from the incident to the report, we try to gather as many facts as possible,” Hammac said.

“One of the biggest challenges we have is making sure we’re not leaving any details out because time can create some holes.”

“We also have the challenge of there’s no physical evidence,” Hammac said.

When investigators sat down with the victim, the information that she was able to provide, Hammac and Barnes said, was easily corroborated with a behavioral pattern they had already seen in other reports from other jurisdictions.

“There certainly was smoke her to suggest the fire was present,” Hammac said.

Detectives interviewed the victim in November, and Price in December.

“During the interview with the suspect, there were some statements he made that led our investigators to believe there was certainly more to this,” Hammac said. “His statements certainly lent credibility to the victim’s allegations.”

The investigation continued and in February, detectives learned of another police report that had been made in 2006 alleging almost the same things as SCSO’s victim. That was a different victim.

“So now we start seeing a behavioral pattern, which is going to be important when you’re dealing with such a lengthy time between incident and report,” Hammac said.

Equally alarming, Hammac said, investigators from a police jurisdiction in St. Clair County contacted SCSO detectives after learning that they were investigating Price.

Price, Hammac said, had been trespassed from a church in Odenville for suspicious behavior.

Price was reportedly caught taking video with his cell phone of minors during a time of prayer.

“The church took it upon themselves to say please leave,” Hammac said.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office took all of the information gathered during the investigation and presented it to the grand jury in April.

The victim also testified before the grand jury.

Hammac said the sheriff’s office issued Tuesday’s press release announcing Price’s arrest to not only let the public know that “this offender has been taken off the streets,” but to also ask for help locating other potential victims.

“We have had three individuals come forward,” Hammac said.

“Those three individuals do not live in our jurisdiction, but we are certainly working with them to report this in their jurisdictions.”

Those new potential cases also happened some years ago, Barnes and Hammac said.

Hammac said they do anticipate more charges against Price.

Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at 205-670-6255 or by email at [email protected]. Tips can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777 or via email at www.crimestoppersmetroal.com.