A Celoron, N.Y., man has been acquitted of child sex abuse charges filed in Warren County in June.

Darren W. Campbell had been charged with 11 felony charges in July 2024, including four charges that would have come with a 10-year mandatory minimums in prison had Campbell been convicted. The jury returned a not guilty verdict on all counts.

“He was looking at a lot of time on this,” said Kord Kinney, Warren County chief public defender.

Police said in the Affidavit of Probable Cause that attempts were made to find and interview Campbell before charges were filed but they were unable to do so. Campbell was briefly jailed before posting bail in August.

A trial was held Monday in the Court of Common Pleas with Judge Gregory Hammond presiding. Kinney said the jury deliberated a little less than two hours before arriving at the decision to acquit Campbell.

There were several motions filed over the past month, according to online court docket information. The county District Attorney’s office filed motions starting in late March dealing with how the jury would hear some testimony in the case, with orders granted in mid-April in advance of Monday’s trial.

“One of them was to have the victim testify outside the presence of the defendant and the jury and have that streamed back into the courtroom. That’s pretty typical in sex cases. She filed a tender years motion to play the (Children’s Advocacy Center) recorded interview which was granted by the court. Those were the big motions that were filed. Then it was just your pretty typical jury trial. The commonwealth called three witnesses, they called the alleged victim, the alleged victim’s mom and the police officer. I called my client and his current wife.”