FENTRESS COUNTY, Tenn. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Friday that a former Fentress County corrections officer was indicted and charged with statutory rape after he was accused of inappropriate sexual contact with a minor.
It said investigators started looking into Nicholas Alexander St. John, 22, in October 2021. TBI said while he was employed as a corrections officer with the Fentress County Sheriff's Office, he met a juvenile at York Institute in Jamestown.
The TBI said he "engaged in sexual activity" with the minor in an abandoned house on school property.
TBI said a Fentress County Grand Jury charged him with a county of statutory rape and a count of aggravated burglary. It said he was arrested and booked into the Fentress County Jail on a $5,000 bond on Friday.