Raleigh man charged with molesting 13-year-old girl and sexting her friends
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A Raleigh man is charged with molesting a 13-year-old girl and sexting her friends and family. Now, investigators want to know if the man may have victimized other children.
Thirty-three-year-old Ronald Corbett is accused of molesting the girl in May and June, according to his arrest warrant. And a search warrant in the case made public this week details the alleged crime. In it, investigators say the girl told them that Corbett also took her smart phone. She claims he used it to 'sext' her friends. According to the search warrant he "...sent sexually inappropriate text messages to her friends while pretending to be [her]."
The girl also told investigators she was contacted by another teen - a 15-year-old female. The 15-year-old said she had been conversing with a male on a phone number known to belong to Corbett. She went on to say that the male told her he was a 16-year-old student at a Raleigh high school. Police say they have also interviewed that girl and she has confirmed the story.
Now, the Wake County prosecutor handling the case, Melanie Shekita, says investigators are wondering if there are more victims.
"Some of the evidence that they've found on electronic media makes us suspicious that there could be other children involved," said Shekita. The search warrant states that police are searching smart phones for "...information, numbers, photographs, text messages, emails and other electronic data...".
Corbett is behind bars under a one million dollar bond.
