A childcare worker was arrested Friday after attempting to rape a woman on Thursday at Owl Creek School, 375 N. Rupple Road, according to a preliminary police report.
Gregory Wilson, 20, of 3 Bliss Circle in Little Rock, was arrested Friday in connection with second-degree sexual assault and first-degree false imprisonment. Wilson's employer was listed as the Boys & Girls Club on a preliminary police report.
Police were called at 6 p.m. Thursday to the school.
A woman told police she had been cleaning up her class area at the school when Wilson entered and began to make sexual comments and touch her. She brushed him away, but when she went to leave the room he chased her, pushed her onto a table and grabbed her legs. She fell to the floor and attempted to crawl to the door but he pulled her back into the room by the leg while touching her between her legs on top of her clothing, the woman told police.
The woman ran to the teacher's lounge and custodians stopped him from following her.
No children were on campus at the time of the incident and Fayetteville Public Schools are working closely with police, according to a statement released Saturday morning by Alan Wilbourn, spokesman. Neither person is a district employee, Wilbourn's statement said.
The Donald W. Reynolds Boys & Girls Club released a statement Saturday morning that did not name Wilson, but said a part-time employee of the organization had been accused of engaging in inappropriate behavior at a Fayetteville Public School and the man has been banned from all Boys & Girls Club operations. The club operates programs in the schools, the statement said, and they are cooperating with police.
The Donald W. Reynolds Boys & Girls Club website lists nine Fayetteville elementary schools, including Owl Creek Elementary School, with an after-school program called School Kids Connection. The program typically runs in a school cafeteria from 2:45 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, according to the website and has an average of 12 children to one adult.
All employees and volunteers must undergo a thorough criminal background check, according to the statement from the club.
Wilson told police in an interview the next day he had made sexual advances to the woman but he did not grope her although he may have touched her inadvertently while reaching for her phone, according to police. He was arrested Friday afternoon.
Wilson was being held Sunday in the Washington County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond.
NW News on 05/04/2015