SPRINGFIELD — A 29-year-old Springfield man has been arrested on four counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child under 16.
According to Springfield Police Chief Philip Thorne, Robert Tony Miniaci was arrested Friday morning and booked into county jail.
On Thursday evening, Springfield Police were alerted by a local woman that her 15-year-old daughter and an adult male, ultimately determined to be Miniaci, had been engaging in sexual intercourse.
Officers began an investigation and learned from the victim that she had initially met Miniaci via the Internet, that he had picked her up from outside her residence on at least four occasions during the past couple of months, and that they had engaged in sexual activity in his pick-up truck.