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ST. GEORGE — The middle school counselor arrested in Mesquite last week has been returned to Washington County to face two first-degree felony charges filed Tuesday in 5th District Court in St. George.
The defendant, 54-year-old David Scott Curtis, has been charged with one first-degree felony count each of rape and forcible sodomy in a case filed Tuesday by the Washington County Attorney's Office.
The case was filed following a report alleging the sexual crimes committed against a child, according to charging documents filed in support of the arrest.
During a forensic interview, investigators learned the defendant had sexually assaulted a child starting when the child was under the age of 10 — abuse that reportedly took place multiple times for several years until shortly before the suspect's Mesquite arrest on an unrelated case, the report states.
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