A convicted child molester is once again facing charges in Fulton County.

Joshua Caudill, 25, of Logansport, was found having inappropriate conversations with two children. The allegations involve and incident on October 13. An employee from the Fulton County Public Library requested that a Rochester police officer escort two children home due to a man acting suspiciously. 

When the officer arrived at the library, the employee further reported that they became concerned after discovering that Caudill had been privately messaging one of the children. Court documents stated that upon looking through the child's phone, the parents of the child discovered Caudill had also sent an inappropriate photo in the messages. Reports detailed that Caudill had met the children at the library on promises of offering them cigarettes, and that the conversation in the messages were occasionally sexual in nature. 

Caudill had been previously convicted of child molesting in 2018 and was sentenced to nine years in prison, with seven years executed, and two years suspended on probation.

Attending a meeting at the Fulton County probation office on October 16, Caudill's probation was soon revoked. It was reported that Caudill did admit to the inappropriate messages he sent to the children, and that he was aware that they were underage.

Caudill told officers he blamed the children's parents for not watching their children, and said he believed that many other people often act inappropriately around minors.

Caudill was booked at the Fulton County Jail on October 16 and charged with two counts of child solicitation, Level 5 felonies; and two counts of inappropriate communication with a child, Level 6 felonies. 

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