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Police: 2 abused boy at arts center
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Murfreesboro have charged two former employees of a nonprofit arts center with the statutory rape of a boy who performed there.

A city police spokesman told The Daily News Journal investigators believe there are other victims.

Murfreesboro Police arrested 36-year-old Jared E. Scott and 22-year-old Justin Mangrum on Thursday.

Police said they think the two used their positions with the Center for the Arts to befriend the 13-year-old and coerce him to have a sexual relationship.

The boy told investigators the acts took place on the center's property in 2010.

The arts center was initially funded by Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, but is now a private nonprofit corporation.

Scott and Mangrum are scheduled to make their first court appearance May 12. Court records don't indicate whether they have attorneys.