Sunbury man charged in rape, kidnapping case

By KATE LIEBERS

For The Sun­bury News

A Sun­bury man and for­mer police offi­cer was for­mally charged Fri­day with abduct­ing, kid­nap­ping and rap­ing a teenage girl he met on the Internet.

Scott Cisco, 47, now faces six first-degree felony counts of rape, three first-degree felony counts of kid­nap­ping, and one third-degree felony count of abduction.

The first-degree felonies are pun­ish­able by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Third-degree felonies are pun­ish­able by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Cisco is accused of dri­ving to Indi­ana to pick up a 17-year-old girl and hav­ing sex with her at his apart­ment, then attempt­ing to trap her there while he went to work at a local tav­ern the fol­low­ing day.

The new indict­ment reflects more severe charges than the ini­tial one count of kid­nap­ping with sex­ual moti­va­tion and one count of rape that Cisco orig­i­nally faced.

If con­victed of rape, Cisco would be clas­si­fied as a sex offender.

Cisco remains at the Delaware County Jail on a $250,000 bond. He is for­bid­den to have any con­tact with the victim.

The defen­dant turned him­self into the Sun­bury Police Depart­ment Octo­ber 25 after learn­ing that offi­cers had vis­ited his South Ver­non Street apartment.

The police visit fol­lowed a 911 call made by the 17-year-old Indi­anapo­lis girl, who said she had just escaped the apart­ment of a man try­ing to kid­nap her.

Cisco had allegedly com­mu­ni­cated with the girl online before dri­ving to Indi­ana ear­lier that week to pick her up. He report­edly forced sex on the girl at his apart­ment, then attempted to trap her there while he went to work at a local tav­ern the fol­low­ing day.

Cisco has worked in law enforce­ment, includ­ing serv­ing at the Mon­roeville Police Depart­ment in north­east Ohio.

His arraign­ment was to be held at Judge W. Dun­can Whitney’s court­room in the Delaware County Com­mon Pleas Court this week.

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