SEX ABUSE CASE Sex Abuse Case To Go To Jury
Reported by: Heath Harrison
Web Producer: Heath Harrison
Reported: Mar. 14, 2013 5:34 PM EDT
Updated: Mar. 15, 2013 1:37 AM EDT
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Athens County
, Ohio
The case against an Ohio man accused of sexually abusing girls at a daycare will soon go to the jury.
Closing arguments in the trial of 76-year-old Thomas Ghifflet, of Glouster, began Thursday morning in Athens County Court.
Shifflet is charged with sexually abusing five girls at a daycare center that was owned by his family.
The alleged incidents happened in June 2011. The trial began in late February.
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