JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - A 51-year-old man is facing multiple charges for sexually abusing an 11-year-old child in his care.
Anthony Rex Edge, 51, of Sneads, was taken into custody at an Orange County hotel on Wednesday, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post.
Edge's arrest follows a report that JCSO received on Dec. 21, 2018, that Eddge had abused an 11-year old-child approximately a year earlier while while acting as a caregiver of the child.
Investigators say that Edge exposed himself to the child, photographed the child in sexual positions, showed the child pornographic videos, and paid the child for sexual favors.
Although Edge lives in Sneads, Florida, he works in Orange County.
After an arrest warrant was signed for Edge, the United States Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force was contacted in Orange County, Florida, to assist in his arrest.
Edge's charges include lewd and lascivious battery, two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation, lewd and lascivious conduct, and lewd and lascivious exhibition.
Edge is being held in the Orange County jail, until he is transported to Jackson County.
