AUSTINTOWN TWP., Ohio - An Austintown man was arrested and charged Tuesday after allegedly touching two young girls on several occasions in 2019.

Eugene Helton, 86, is charged with gross sexual imposition.

A person told police that one of the girls alerted them to the incidents in December of 2019, saying that Helton had touched her innapropriately.

One of the victims was only 11 at the time of the incidents, which allegedly occured between August and October of 2019.

Helton was arrested and booked at the Mahoning County Jail on Tuesday.