SYRACUSE, Utah — A firefighter who has worked for multiple agencies across northern Utah has been charged with sexually abusing a child.

Ryan J. Rampton, 58, was charged last week with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and one charge of sodomy on a child. All three are first-degree felonies.

Charging documents state that the alleged victim in this case, now a teenager, said she was sexually abused by Rampton when she was between 4-8 years old.

The girl said Rampton, who lives in Syracuse, touched her inappropriately on multiple occasions, including under her clothes and even when she was asleep.

When she was about seven or eight years old, she told her mother about the abuse, and they reported it to the police. However, she was uncomfortable telling the detective what ha

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