Piano tutor indicted on sex abuse charges; Euclid police concerned there could be more victims

CLEVELAND - Neighbors say for years they enjoyed piano music coming from Bruce Locke's home on a red brick-covered stretch of East 207th Street, just four houses from Lake Erie. 

But Euclid police and Cuyahoga County Assistant Prosecutor Colleen Reali say a crime was committed against a young girl inside the home years ago. 

Euclid police said 61-year-old Locke, a long-time piano tutor who taught kids out of his home, was arrested for alleged sex abuse of a 9-year-old girl. 

The girl, now a 22-year-old college student studying child counseling, told police she was moved by the Penn State sex abuse investigation to come forward and that she was concerned there could be more victims like her. 

Euclid police listened to her claims, executed a search warrant at Locke's house and Friday afternoon, a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indicted Locke on 12 counts pertaining to sex abuse, including nine felonies. 

The disturbing allegations are spelled out in the seven-page indictment. Police said they also found Internet child porn on Locke's home computer during the search warrant executed at Locke's home. 

Euclid Detectives Anthony Medved and David Roose both worked on the case and say because of Locke's access to children as a piano teacher and as a substitute teacher in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, they are concerned with the possibility there could be more victims. 

Reali called the woman who came forward "brave" and said she feared there could be more victims.

No one answered the door at Locke's home Friday. 

Locke will be arraigned Feb. 17 at 8:30 a.m. on charges including gross sexual imposition, kidnapping and intimidation.