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MAN FOUND GUILTY IN CAMPBELL COUNTY OF SEX CRIMES AGAINST CHILD
December 10, 2020
Rachel Mahoney
News Advance
RUSTBURG — A Lynchburg man was found guilty Wednesday of committing multiple sexual battery crimes against a child last year.
Roger Edward Blankenship, 56, was arrested in March on three counts each of aggravated sexual battery against a child younger than 13, forcible sodomy of a child younger than 13 and taking indecent liberties with a child. The victim in question was 9 on the offense dates listed for most of the charges.
He was found guilty of all but one of the sodomy charges after a Wednesday