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The Sheriff's Office said it was contacted October 10 by Vidant Edgecombe Hospital in reference to a 15-year-old female and her mother, who were in the ER saying that the teen had been forcibly raped.
According to the victim, the incident happened October 1 at her home. She told police she knew the suspect.
After an investigation, deputies arrested Jonathan Thomas Reese, 24, of the 100 block of Fancy Lane in Pinetops.
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Deputies said Reese and the victim began a relationship after Reese was employed by the juvenile's parents a week earlier.
Reese and the victim engaged in consensual sex and communicated with one another heavily for over a week, the sheriff's office said.
Reese was jailed on $5,000 secured bond.