Springport, N.Y. — A Cayuga County man who works at a school was charged Friday with sexually abusing a child under the age of 11, deputies said.

Craig S. Gilmore, 63, of Springport, was charged with first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child and first-degree sexual abuse, according to the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office.

After a week-long investigation, deputies arrested Gilmore at his home.

Gilmore was a maintenance worker at Union Springs Academy in Union Springs, according to the school’s principal, Timothy Raymond. Gilmore was fired as a result of his arrest, he said.

Raymond said the alleged abuse did not involve the school or students.

The academy is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian boarding school.

Gilmore is being held at the Cayuga County Jail.

The sheriff’s

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