By TARA JENNINGS

Ledger Staff Writer

Authorities in Cleveland County, N.C., have arrested a local man on a rape charge.

Joseph Ricky Camp, 25, of 605 Bonner Lake Road, Gaffney, is charged with first-degree rape by the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office, according to the Cleveland County Detention Center.

Camp was released Tuesday from the detention center after posting $75,000 bond. He was arrested Nov. 4, detention center officials said.

Camp is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old Gaffney girl in April at a residence on Holden Drive in Shelby, according to a report at the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office.

The girl’s mother told police her daughter just recently told her about the alleged incident. She filed a report with the police Oct. 29.