SOUTHERN INDIANA — A Clarksville-based U.S. Marine Corps recruiter is going through 4 intercourse crimes prices.
In accordance with courtroom information, 24-year-old Steven Robinson is charged with one depend of kid seduction, a Stage 5 felony; two counts of Stage 6 possession of kid pornography and one misdemeanor depend of false informing.
Jeffersonville police stated within the possible trigger affidavit they had been referred to as to a resort on Aug. 16 the place they discovered Robinson and a minor partaking in sexual exercise. Officers stated at first that they had decided it was consensual, however had been tipped off that Robinson is perhaps a USMC recruiter.
When requested if he was a USMC recruiter, or concerned with any branches of the U.S. army, Robinson stated no. Officers allowed Robinson and the minor, together with the guardians, to go away the scene, in keeping with the affidavit.
A Jeffersonville police detective stated they obtained a name from officers on scene who advised them Robinson was a Marine recruiter within the workplace the place the minor attends coaching, which Detective J. Herring wrote qualifies for the kid seduction cost below Indiana legislation.
Officers went to the Clarksville recruitment workplace and positioned Robinson.
They confiscated his digital units and requested a choose for a search warrant to analyze them.
Police stated Robinson initially tried to cover that he was with the minor and tried to stop them from having contact with the minor. He is also accused of telling the minor to lie about how they met and their id and deny he was a recruiter. Officers additionally discovered textual content messages between the minor and Robinson that they stated indicated he wished the minor to lie in the event that they ever caught.
In accordance with the possible trigger affidavit, the Division of Youngsters’s Providers decided that Robinson used frequent techniques to groom the minor.
Officers additionally searched Robinson’s cell and stated they discovered proof that Robinson used his place of authority as a recruiter over the minor. In addition they famous that he did not use his USMC-issued cellular phone however as a substitute his private cellular phone to contact varied highschool college students.
Robinson was in courtroom Wednesday and courtroom information point out he entered his money bond that day. He is due again in courtroom later this month.
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