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FORMER KY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY INDICTED ON CHARGES OF RAPE, OTHER SEX CRIMES AGAINST A MINOR
July 17, 2020
Karla Ward
Kentucky
A former Bath County sheriff’s deputy has been indicted on charges accusing him of sexual crimes against a minor.
Joshua Eugene Preece, 39, of Morehead, is accused of sexually assaulting a minor on Nov. 5, 2018, and he is accused of asking for and receiving sexually graphic images of minors online between November 2017 and October 2018, the Kentucky attorney general’s office said in a news release.
Preece was indicted by a Bath County grand jury on Thursday on one count of third-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sexual