SYCAMORE – A Genoa man is being held on $500,000 bond on charges he had sexual contact with three different children.

C.A. Barnett, 63, of the 300 block of North Sycamore Street in Genoa, was charged Friday with criminal sexual abuse. Two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child were brought against him Saturday.

Barnett appeared in court Monday via closed-circuit TV from the DeKalb County Jail. Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert told him he could face life in prison if convicted of the predatory criminal sexual assault charges because two victims were involved.