Miamisburg man faces child rape, attempted rape charges

The Miamisburg man accused of offering young girls money at Mark Twain Elementary School to take off their clothes also faces charges of rape and attempted rape.

Thomas C. Hatton, 18, paid a pre-teen girl money to take off her clothes and he touched her vagina, according to a statement of facts court document written by a Miamisburg police detective after the girl was interviewed at Care House.

“Thomas had also offered a number of other girls, approximately this same age, money to take off their clothing as discovered by this officer over the course of the investigation,” the detective wrote. “Over 300 images and videos of preteen girls involved in explicit sexual encounters and/or posing in the nude were found on Thomas Hatton’s computer following a search warrant at his residence.”

Hatton's home at 833 Cottage Ave. is just across an alley from a playground at Mark Twain Elementary.

Hatton’s defense attorney, Anthony Comunale, has filed a motion for a third opinion on his client’s mental condition in order to determine his competency to stand trial. No trial date has been scheduled. Comunale declined to comment.

Hatton remains in Montgomery County Jail on a $250,000 bond. He’s been there since his October 2015 arrest.

Hatton was first indicted on 17 counts of pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor, a fourth-degree felony. The rape and attempted rape counts were added in a second indictment.

The father of an 8-year-old girl alleged Hatton approached his daughter and her two cousins at Mark Twain Elementary and offered his child a cell phone if she would allow him to take photos of her in the nude.

The father said Hatton threatened to make children“swallow a thousand nails” if they told anyone about what he was doing. “She’s my hero because I know she stopped a bunch of people from getting hurt,” the father said.

Miamisburg police interviewed other families and have said Hatton may have used the same tactic on other children.

Court documents show prosecutors and Hatton’s defense attorney have agreed to restricted use of CDs of forensic interviews of at least two and possibly more children.

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