A convicted sex offender is back behind bars, accused of kidnapping and sexually torturing another male.

Eric Arthur Howard, 42, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on Tuesday, according to jail records. He is being held on bonds totaling $120,000.

Howard's arrest followed grand jury indictments issued on April 7. The indictments include allegations of sodomy, sexual torture and sexual abuse.

Howard abducted the male victim, whose age was not available, with the intent to inflict physical injury and/or to violate or abuse him sexually, records claim. Among the allegations against Howard are claims that he raped the victim with an "inanimate object."

The Blountsville man was arrested in Blount County in 1995 on two counts of first-degree sex abuse, and pleaded guilty to the felony charges the following year. The victim in that case was a 6-year-old boy, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's Community Information Center.

In that case, he was sentenced to four years, nine months and 90 days in prison, with 90 days to actually serve.

Efforts to obtain additional details in the recent case weren't immediately successful, but this story will be updated if more information is released.