Bond set for Northwest Rec Center security guard facing child sex charges

UPDATE @ 3:18 p.m. (April 23):

A judge set bond for a Moonlight Security guard accused of performing sex acts with boys while she was working at the Northwest Recreation Center.

Bond was set at $250,000 for Laquita Ross, 41.

The Dayton woman is facing two counts of rape of a child younger than 13 and four counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.

If she makes bond, she’ll be on house arrest.

Ross was working as a Moonlight Security guard at the Northwest Recreation Center, when she is accused of participating in sex acts with the five boys in an alley behind the center, a Dayton police detective reported in a statement of facts.

The incidents were alleged to have happened between 5 and 9 p.m. March 19 on Vernon Avenue.

“The Dayton Police Department received information from Crime Stoppers that a security guard working at the Northeast Recreation Center on Princeton Park Drive had sexually assaulted teenage boys inside her van,” the prosecutor’s office said.

“Thanks to the efforts of one person reporting this defendant’s actions to Crime Stoppers, she is now in custody and unable to assault any more children,” said Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr.

The boys’ ages range from 12 to 15.

The city of Dayton contracts with Moonlight Security to provide security at the rec center, according to city spokeswoman Toni Bankston.

Ross is due in court for arraignment on Tuesday.

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