Police allege that the abuse was ongoing with the first instance happening when the child was around three years old.
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The Fleming family are members of the Maryland Angus Association, and the teen has earned prizes for his show cows in recent fairs in the state.
The suspect’s and victim’s families are friendly, and traveled to the fair together, police said. Police stated the woman informed officers that Fleming has pressured her a number of occasions a yr to interact in intercourse acts at totally different festivals in Maryland and elsewhere.
WJZ 13 News/CBS Baltimore Police said Fleming touched the girl inappropriately at the Fair’s Cow Palace before forcing her to perform sex acts on him in the swine barn and his family’s trailer.
The Baltimore Sun reports that 17-year-old Jonathan Fleming was arrested after a anxious farmer became concerned when he saw the young girl leaving the Swine Barn at the fair with the older teen boy. Reportedly, the teen would assault the girl for up to 20 minutes each time he saw her at the next fair.
Jonathan Fleming, of Carroll County, Maryland, is charged as an adult with second-degree rape, second-degree sexual offense, perverted practice, fourth-degree sexual assault and second-degree assault, according to The Baltimore Sunday. He was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $500,000 bond.
Fleming and his victim’s family were together the day before this year’s State Fair started on Friday in Timonium, according to investigators from the county police’s crimes against children unit.
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No attorney is listed in court records for Fleming, and his family could not be reached for comment.
