Cedarville professor, author on Christian sexual ethics, arrested on eight sex felonies
Cedarville professor, author on Christian sexual ethics, arrested on eight sex felonies
Cedarville professor, author on Christian sexual ethics, arrested on eight sex felonies
A Cedarville University professor and author on Christian sexual ethics has been arrested on eight felony charges, including rape and sexual battery involving a minor.
A former Cedarville University finance professor whose writings promote a Christian ethic of marriage and sexuality was arrested Tuesday on eight sex-related felony charges involving one or more minors.
The indictment, filed March 27 in Ohio’s Greene County Common Pleas Court, charges John Kent Tarwater with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.
He was booked into Greene County jail in southwest Ohio, where he remained in custody as of Wednesday morning. No defense counsel was listed in public court records, and no hearing or trial dates were disclosed.