Ex-guard gets 60 days for sex with teenager

A former Delaware County deputy sheriff was sentenced to 60 days in jail and three years of community control Wednesday for having sex with a student at the Delaware Area Career Center’s South Campus.

Delaware County Common Pleas Court Judge David M. Gormley also fined Eric S. Jaynes, 32, of Sunbury, $3,000 and ordered him to serve 40 hours of community service. Jaynes will be classified as a Tier 3 sex offender, the state’s strictest sex-offender designation.

“Jaynes was charged after a May 18, 2018, call to law enforcement,” Delaware County Prosecutor Carol O’brien said in a written statement. “The report came in as a possible sex offense involving a student” at the career center.

Jaynes admitted to inappropriate sexual activity with the student last year, while he was a full-time corrections officer at the Delaware County Jail and volunteered as a physicaltraining instructor at the school. He pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery, each third-degree felonies, related to the female student.

In addition, he pleaded guilty to one count of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a fifth-degree felony, related to another student. The crimes took place between Jan. 1 and May 18 last year, according to the indictment.

Jaynes was ordered to attend sex-offender treatment and have no contact with the victim or the vocational school.

He is to report to the Knox County Jail on Friday.