JACKSON, Ohio – A southern Ohio man was due to be arraigned Friday on five charges including kidnapping and rape in the disappearance of a six-year-old girl in July.
Attorney General Mike DeWine and Jackson County Prosecutor Justin Lovett announced the nine-count indictment against Zachary Dunn on Thursday. Dun, 30, also faces abduction, gross sexual imposition and felonious assault charges.
The kidnapping charges include specifications that Dunn is a sexually violent predator and that he committed the kidnapping offenses with a sexual motivation.
“This defendant grabbed the young victim from her home and terrorized her until she managed to get away,” DeWine said.
After the girl disappeared from her home in Jackson on July 26, police searched for her by land and air and issued a statewide Amber alert. A woman located the girl hours later about six miles away from her home, the city’s mayor said at the time.
Court records don’t show an attorney for Dunn, who faces the following charges:
Kidnapping (three counts)
Abduction (two counts)
Rape
Gross Sexual Imposition (two counts)
Felonious Assault
If convicted on all of the offenses, Dunn could face a maximum of life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors with DeWine’s Special Prosecutions Section are assisting Lovett with the case.