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UPDATED 11:06 a.m. 5-12-2011 - According to officials, all charges have been dropped and there are no pending cases against a Midlands man who was accused of criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

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LEXINGTON (WACH) -- Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts says William Schell Reamer, 50, is being held without bond at the Lexington County Detention Center.

Reamer's arrest warrant is on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 11 and a second arrest warrant on a charge of committing a lewd act on a child under the age of 16, Metts said. 

Investigators arrested Reamer at his Gaston home at about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 4.

The girls mother reported the incidents to the Sheriffs Department on October 6, 2008, Metts said. The mother told deputies that her daughter had bad dreams about Reamer and the abuse that she suffered at Reamers hands.

Reamer owns a certified public accounting firm near West Columbia; he was arrested by Lexington County Sheriffs Department fugitive investigators and members of a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force. Two arrest warrants that Lexington County sheriffs detectives obtained for the man  charges that on several occasions between 1999 and 2008 he improperly touched a girl, who now is 13.

One arrest warrant alleges that on several occasions between 2005 and 2008 Reamer improperly touched the girls private part while he was with the girl at a home near Lexington, Metts said. The second arrest warrant alleges that on several occasions between 1999 and 2006 Reamer improperly touched the girls private part through her clothing while he was with the girl at the Lexington home.

Under South Carolina law, first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 11 is a felony that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison, Metts said.  Committing a lewd act on a child is a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.