Charges filed against Rockville man in 2012 Putnam molestation case

Thursday, July 7, 2016

A 24-year-old Parke County man, already in prison at New Castle for similar crimes, has been charged with child molesting in a four-year-old Putnam County case.

Charges have been filed in Putnam Circuit Court against Cody B. O'Haver, 24, Rockville, for allegedly pressuring a 12-year-old Bainbridge area girl into having sexual relations with him when he was 20 or 21 years old.

The charge has been filed by the Putnam County Prosecutor's Office as a Class B felony, punishable by 6-20 years in prison with an advisory sentence of 10 years.

The alleged sexual encounter reportedly occurred just outside Bainbridge sometime during the winter months of 2012 in a tent located next to a mobile home off Old U.S. 36.

Last February, Putnam County Sheriff's Department Dets. Pat McFadden and Doug Nally interviewed O'Haver at the Reception Diagnostic Center at Plainfield and the suspect, according to court documents, admitted having sex with the girl as well as knowing she was only 12 at the time.

O'Haver also told the detectives that he and the girl would participate in something they called "the nervous game," in which each of them would touch each other's body as they advanced toward the genital area to see who would get nervous and stop first.

Currently held at the New Castle Correctional facillty, O'Haver has a projected release date of Dec. 25, 2018. He was sentenced on Feb. 26 of this year to six years in prison (three years suspended) for failure to register as a sex offender and another count of child molesting from Parke County.

Within months of the reported Putnam County incident, O'Haver was previously convicted of child molesting in Parke County. Sentenced on Dec. 3, 2013 to three years in prison, O'Haver was released from prison a year later on Dec. 1, 2014, only to be reincarcerated Jan. 26, 2016 on the failure to register count and the second Parke County molesting charge.

No Putnam Circuit Court hearing date has been set in the case.