Jason Dene Collins v. State of Indiana

── Jason Dene Collins v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 24A-CR-01948 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: March 25, 2025 Author: Judge Leanna Weissmann County of Origin: Grant Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Pyle and Judge Felix concur In March 2020, the Grant County Department of Child Services (DCS) received a report that Collins had sexually molested two young girls: B.C. (his biological daughter) and E.R. (a child placed in Collins’s care while her mother was incarcerated). At the time of the report, B.C. was eleven and E.R. was ten. The evidence at trial revealed a disturbing pattern of daily sexual abuse over a period of years. E.R., born in April 2009, is a cousin of Collins’s then-girlfriend, Angela Whitt. E.R.