Marion County High Athletic Trainer Faces Child Sex Charges

School will be starting soon in Marion County and practice has already begun for football.

But one of the trainers at Marion County High is in jail tonight, facing a laundry list of charges.

Jack Owens faces five separate felony counts--among them, statutory rape, solicitation of a minor to commit statutory rape, statutory rape by an authority figure, exploitation of a minor by electronic means, and carrying a weapon on school property.

We went to Marion County this afternoon, but many of the questions we had were left largely unanswered.

We went to Owens' house, where no one answered the door.

And to Marion County High, where we were told to leave.

We were approached by a woman, who didn't identify herself, who told us, "you need to leave, there are kids practicing, you can't do this to the kids."

We didn't get very far in our search for answers at the school.

"The superintendent of schools told us not to talk to anybody," said one coach.

While school officials aren't commenting about the case, detectives tell us Owens came into the contact with the child under the age of 16 using text messages. Those text messages are what eventually led to his arrest.

In fact, authorities say the parents of the minor involved came to Marion County detectives.

While we don't know what's in those messages, they do say that the messages were of a questionable nature.

That's when detectives set up a sting operation, using the cell phone to arrange a meeting.

Detectives won't say where that was, but when he showed up, that's where he was arrested.