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By 10TV Web Staff
Wednesday February 3, 2016
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – The man who traveled to Mexico to allegedly rape and molest infants was also trying to have contact with young children alone in Ohio.
According to a police report last May from the Steubenville Police Department, Joel Wright placed an ad on Craigslist offering to pay parents up to $150 to watch and babysit their young children.
The ad (from a man listed as “Joel”) reads he would play with the children as parents supervised, however it goes on to read “Then you can leave to go out, go shopping, go to a movie, etc…”
The report states a tipster answered the ad and alerted police because she was concerned.
The responder said he lived in Steubenville and is a student at Franciscan University. He also sent over a photo of himself, which was later identified as Joel Wright by university security.
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