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A Weldon man was arrested and charged Friday with statutory rape in a case involving a 14-year-old child who had been reported as a runaway.

Chief Deputy Scott Hall of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office confirmed this afternoon the child was the victim in the case. He declined comment on the child’s gender.

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The eventual arrest of Ronnie Washington, 38, began with a report of a runaway child around 3 a.m. on January 19 in the area of Bynum’s Bridge Road in the Scotland Neck area.

Deputy P. Moyer was speaking with the child’s father when a vehicle stopped in the road and seconds later pulled off and continued to travel, Hall said in a statement.

Moyer conducted an investigative stop and learned the passenger was the juvenile who had been reported as a runaway.

Further investigation by Detective T. Clark and Moyer led to warrants being issued for the arrest of Washington for statutory rape.

Washington received a $250,000 bond and February 17 court date.