Milledgeville judge accused of having sex with teenage girls

<p>A Milledgeville lawyer who serves as a municipal court judge and prosecutor was released on $75,000 bond after he was arrested on charges of having sex with teenage girls.</p><p>Jon Philip Carr, 53, a municipal court judge in Ivey and McIntyre and a prosecutor for Milledgeville Municipal Court, was released Monday and is charged with six counts of child molestation and four counts of statutory rape, said Baldwin County Sheriff Bill Massee.</p><p>Carr was arrested at his Milledgeville office Sunday and could not be reached for comment Tuesday.</p><p>The 13- and 14-year-old alleged victims escaped from Project Adventure, a halfway house for troubled youth in Baldwin County, Massee said.</p><p>The girls then stayed with Michelle Bridges, 21, in Milledgeville. Bridges introduced them to Carr and is now charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Massee said.</p><p>A tip about the girls' location led authorities to Bridges' house Saturday night. The girls then said Carr had sex with them, Massee said.</p><p>Massee said he had known Carr for years and was shocked by the charges.</p><p>"I was surprised," Massee said. "It hit everyone out of the blue."</p><p>In May, another Middle Georgia municipal court judge was accused of alleged misconduct with teenage girls. Judge Aurelio Enrique Abreu, 51, was accused of giving alcohol to two 16-year-old girls in a private home, He was suspended from his job not long after being charged.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1d053dc)</p>

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