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He admitted having sex with a 15-year-old. Fourteen years later, Scioto County has never charged him.

Scioto Co. Prosecutor Shane Tieman, left, and assistant prosecutor Danielle Parker, right. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A Scioto County man told a sheriff’s detective in 2012 that he had sex with a 15-year-old girl he met on a mobile dating app, and that when the girl messaged him her real age, he told her to send a second message claiming she was 18 — “to cover his tracks,” the detective wrote. The man, identified by reports as Gene R. Zimmerman was jail…
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Scioto Valley Guardian broke the news on Friday, August 28, 2026.
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