The Effingham County Sheriff's Office has arrested a registered sex offender and accused him of molesting a 4-year-old child.
Investigators arrested Robert Hart of Meldrim yesterday afternoon, according to Effingham County Sheriff’s Spokesman David Ehsanipoor.
Hart was convicted of child molestation in 2006 and remains on probation from those charges. In the new case, Hart is charged with aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy and cruelty children in the first degree.
He’s in the Effingham County Jail.