Utah Woman Accused of Child Rape

(Logan, Utah) A 46-year-old local woman, Carol Ricker, was arrested last Thursday for allegedly raping a child. Ricker faces 12 first-degree felony counts of rape, sodomy and aggravated sex abuse of a child.

Logan police say the alleged victim is now is in his 20s but was a younger boy at the time of the alleged crime.

Captain Jeff Curtis of the Logan Police Department says this is a difficult case for officers. "It's a sad fact of life that these types of things take place and happen in our society, but they do," he said.

Police learned of the alleged abuse after a tip that a 5-year-old was being abused by the suspect. Investigators are still looking into those claims.

"That did lead to some other facts that (something) had been happening to some people who are adults now," Curtis said.

Ricker was booked into custody at the Cache County Jail with bail set at $240,000.