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TBI: Former Fentress Co. corrections officer charged with statutory rape involving a minor

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said it started investigating Nicholas Alexander St. John, 22, in October 2021.

FENTRESS COUNTY, Tenn. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Friday that a former Fentress County corrections officer was indicted and charged with statutory rape after he was accused of inappropriate sexual contact with a minor.

It said investigators started looking into Nicholas Alexander St. John, 22, in October 2021. TBI said while he was employed as a corrections officer with the Fentress County Sheriff's Office, he met a juvenile at York Institute in Jamestown.

The TBI said he "engaged in sexual activity" with the minor in an abandoned house on school property.

TBI said a Fentress County Grand Jury charged him with a county of statutory rape and a count of aggravated burglary. It said he was arrested and booked into the Fentress County Jail on a $5,000 bond on Friday.

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