Police: Boy Molested at Travel Center Restroom

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A Cumming man who works as a truck driver is behind bars in South Carolina after sheriff’s deputies say he molested a boy at a travel center.

Merlin Theriot, Jr., 60, has been charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct following the alleged incident in Orangeburg County, WCSC reports.

The Orangeburg County sheriff told the news outlet that the 8-year-old boy’s father called 911 after the child said Theriot had touched him inappropriately while both were in a restroom and had asked the child to do the same to him.

An Orangeburg County judge denied Theriot’s bail, deeming him a threat to other children. Theriot allegedly told the judge he had served probation for an earlier child molestation offense, WCSC says.