A Glouster woman who allegedly co-leads an area drug ring pleaded guilty to the charge of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a second-degree felony, last Wednesday.
ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) An Athens County sheriff sergeant made his first court appearance Monday following his arrest last week on two felony charges.Jimmy Childs, 52, is facing charges of tamperin
An Ohio couple and two of their sons are charged in a sexual abuse case.
Robert Bellar, 54, his wife
Deborah Bellar, 49, and their children
Jonathan Levi Bellar, 26, and
Josiah Bellar, 24, are all in custody.
Allegations originated from the couple’s daughter
Serah Bellar. She described a bizarre home life in which her parents brought the kids to a church run by her uncle, who preached that siblings are supposed to have children with one another to repopulate the planet amid the apocalypse, she said. Bellar escaped in April 2020, when she was 16.
“All the kids would have to go, whether they wanted to or not even if you were sick, you had to go, it didn’t matter,” she said, according to
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An Athens County sheriff s deputy was arrested on Friday in connection to a sexual abuse case involving the family of a previously missing teen, prosecutors said.
Jimmy Childs, 52, is facing felony charges of tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice, according to a release from the Athens County Prosecutor s Office.
The alleged incidents occurred between May 18 and May 21, following last week s indictments of Robert, Deborah, Jonathan and Josiah Bellar on charges related to ongoing sexual abuse of children in the household, officials said. Childs is accused of deleting a record of a phone call with Robert Bellar during the execution of a search warrant, not informing any supervisor of the telephone call until after his phone was seized, deleting Robert Bellar’s contact from his phone and making a false statement during the investigation, the release states.