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Zierle also received a nine to 20 year sentence for methamphetamine delivery.

Zierle worked as a janitor at Union City schools but the victim was not a student there.

Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O'Grady on Monday, Aug. 18 sentenced Ray Zierle to nine to 50 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a 15-year-old girl with whom he developed a relationship.

"You are every parent's nightmare," O'Grady told Zierle.

The Branch County Sheriff Department discovered the relationship when they seized his cell phone during a December 2024 drug raid at his Bidwell Road home.

O'Grady sentenced Zierle to nine to 20 years after a no contest plea to delivery of methamphetamine.

Prosecutor Zack Stempien said the gi

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