RIVERSIDE - A probationer accused of cultivating an online relationship with a 12-year-old girl, leading to multiple sexual assaults over a five-month span, pleaded not guilty today to more than a dozen felony charges.
Robert Downing Scott Jr., 30, of Riverside was arrested last month and charged with five counts of lewd acts on a child, three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and one count each of contacting a minor to commit a felony, furnishing child pornography to an underage victim, using a minor to produce child porn, arranging to meet a minor for sex and attempted lewd acts on a child.
Scott was arraigned before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Sean Crandell, who scheduled a felony settlement conference for Aug. 4 at the Riverside Hall of Justice and ordered tha
