The Oskaloosa Police Department received a complaint on November 26 that a thirteen year old child had been sexually abused by an eighteen year old man. The report indicated that sexual acts had been done to the child on November 25 in Oskaloosa.

On December 7, 2017 the Oskaloosa Police charged and arrested Storm H. Babcock, age eighteen, of Oskaloosa with Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree. Babcock was subsequently taken to the Mahaska County Jail.

Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree is a class C felony punishable by up to ten years in a state penitentiary.

It should be noted a criminal charge is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.