ATHENS COUNTY, Ohio – The week
long investigation of the Athens County law enforcement officials paid off
after two residents from the Athens County were arrested for human trafficking.
Investigators from the Athens
County Sheriff’s Office said that the suspects who were a man and a woman used
a 16-year-old girl to have sex with other individuals in exchange for money and
drugs.
Athens County Children Services and the Athens County
Sheriff’s Office are working on the case and they were able to identify the
female suspect as twenty-seven-year-old Ellen Mays. She is a resident of Binder
Basin Road in Glouster. She was taken into custody for questioning and later
admitted to have set up the girl to perform different acts for money and drugs,
according to the reports.
The twenty-seven-year-old Glouster woman was arrested and charged with compelling
prostitution and human trafficking. She is being held in the
Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail.
She told the officers that she arranged
the meeting between the 16-year-old girl and a sixty-nine-year-old resident of
Rocky Point Road in Athens. The Athens County Children Services identified the
suspect as Fred Kittle Sr.
Records show that he is a registered sex offender in
Athens County who was convicted and was behind bars for some time on rape
charges.
The sheriff’s office issued a search warrant for the home
of Kittle located in the Rocky Point Road.
The deputies found evidences inside the home but did not give details
when they executed the search warrant.
Kittle was arrested without incident. He was charged with
compelling prostitution and importuning. He is being held in the Southeastern
Ohio Regional Jail.
The Athens man and woman are scheduled to appear before
the Athens County Municipal Court Monday morning.
Godfrey
Obe is a news writer for NinjaCOPS.com where you can get affordable stun guns, rechargeable stun gun flashlights and law enforcement stun guns.
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