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Zanesville Child Care Worker Indicted on Child Porn, Sexual Battery Charges
< < Back toA man who spent six years working in Zanesville as a child care worker faces a maximum of 559 years in prison if convicted on all charges accusing him of sexual misconduct with a 15-year-old.
According to the Zanesville Times Recorder, 34-year-old Rodney Curtis of Sunset Ave., pleaded not guilty to 74 charges Wednesday in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court.
On March 18, he was indicted on 63 counts of illegal use of a minor involved in nudity-related material and 11 counts of sexual battery.
The first 63 charges refer to multiple incidents between last April 28 and Sept. 24. The counts accuse Curtis of either photographing the minor or creating, directing, producing, or transferring the material.
The other 11 contained in Curtis’ 19-page indictment refer to sexual battery against a female who was 15 at the time between April 16 and July 18.
He was arrested on a warrant last Friday and has since been held at the Muskingum County Jail on a $1 million bond.
The victim was a resident at the Avondale Youth Center, where Curtis had been employed for six years as a child care worker. The center serves as a therapeutic intervention center for youths who have been abused or neglected.