(3-21-26) Robert Burden (48) of St. Marys was booked on unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and importuning.

Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor occurs when one person is 18 or older, the other is between 13 and 15 years old, and the two engage in sexual conduct.

Even if the minor agrees to the interaction, it can still be a crime. Ohio law says that people under 16 are not legally capable of consenting to sex with an adult. That’s why this charge is sometimes referred to as a form of statutory rape, even though that term doesn’t appear in the statute itself.

He is being held in the Auglaize County Jail on $50,000 bond.