Authorites took a Jasper man in custody this morning on rape and child molestation charges after an investigation by detectives with the Indiana State Police.
Back on October 25th of this year, the Indiana Department of Child Services and the Indiana State Police began an investigation into a complaint of inappropriate contact with a minor between 2011 and 2015.
The complaint alleged that 20-year-old Anthony Neukam of Jasper had sexually forced himself upon a minor female routinely during that timeframe.
After a lengthy investigation by state police and the department of child services, an arrest warrant was issued and Neukam was arrested this morning by State Police and Dubois County Sheriff’s Deputies.
Neukam is being held in the Dubois County Security Center where he was booked on a Level 3 Felony count of rape and 4 counts of Child Molesting, also a level 3 Felony.