Wednesday, April 26, 2000
11-year-old accused of new crime
Three children claim abuse
By Janice Morse
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MIDDLETOWN — An 11-year-old boy who is charged with raping a 7-year-old girl now faces new charges of abusing a young boy.
And police, who continue to investigate the case, say there might be still more victims.
The 11-year-old, whose name was not released because of his age, is charged with gross sexual imposition involving a 5-year-old boy.
“He's acting out what he's been exposed to and also what's happened to him,” Detective H. Fredrick Shuemake said Tuesday.
The boy told Detective Shuemake that an adult male had molested him four years ago in another Ohio city. The boy said authorities refused to file charges for lack of evidence.
The 11-year-old was released Thursday from the county juvenile detention center and is in the custody of an aunt and uncle, said Rob Clevenger, court spokesman. The boy remains on electronically monitored home incarceration, Mr. Clevenger said. He is awaiting hearings Tuesday and May 16.
The boy had been in detention since March 24, when he was accused of attacking the 7-year-old girl in a closet at his home. Police say the girl's mother interrupted the alleged rape.
Judge David Niehaus refused to release the boy, who lives on the same street as the alleged victim, until another placement could be arranged.
The 5-year-old and two other potential victims — a girl, age 4, and a boy, 6 — surfaced earlier this month after they told a therapist that the 11-year-old had sexually assaulted them about a year ago, Detective Shuemake said. That was while the trio lived nearby and were sometimes left unattended with the boy.
All three had been in therapy because of alleged sexual abuse by an adult.
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