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Roy Fire Chief Theron Williams issued a statement defending the fire department and distancing it from a former firefighter facing criminal charges.

Ryan Rampton, 58, is charged with aggravated sexual abuse of a child and sodomy on a child.

He has resigned his post with the Roy Fire Department and is being held in jail.

ROY — In the wake of the arrest of a Roy firefighter for the alleged sexual abuse of a child, Roy Fire Chief Theron Williams is offering an impassioned defense of the department and distancing it from the suspect.

Ryan Rampton, 58, of Syracuse, is charged in 2nd District Court in Farmington with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and sodomy on a child, first-degree felonies.

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