PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A Multnomah County grand jury voted this week not to charge Zachary Thomas Rouse with having access to child pornography, but instead, did charge him with the online sexual corruption of a child, according to court records.
When Rouse was arrested, Portland Police said that he was employed by the City of Portland as the director of tennis for Parks and Recreation. He originally had been charged with five counts of second-degree possession of materials depicting sexually explicit conduct of a child and a single count of second-degree online sexual corruption of a child.
According to the indictment that was filed on Thursday, Rouse, around Aug. 1, did “unlawfully and for the purpose of arousing and gratifying a person’s sexual desire, knowingly used an online communication to solicit a child to engage in sexual contact and sexually explicit conduct and offered to physically meet with a child.”
Rouse is scheduled to appear in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Friday afternoon for his arraignment.
He remains out of custody.
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