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June 06, 2013|By JESSE LEAVENWORTH, The Hartford Courant
MANCHESTER A former job coach for Goodwill has been charged with
repeatedly sexually assaulting an employee who has intellectual
disabilities at locations in Manchester, East Hartford and Bloomfield,
police said.
Kenneth Wilson, 40, of East Hartford, was being held Thursday on bail
totaling $1 million. He is scheduled to appear in Manchester Superior
Court on July 1.
Manchester police arrested Wilson last week and charged him with eight
counts of second-degree sexual assault. The charges are under a section
of the law about "mentally defective" victims who are unable to consent
to sex.
East Hartford police charged Wilson with first-degree sexual assault,
contending that he used threats and force to have sex with the woman.
The 22-year-old victim was described by police as having mild mental
retardation. She lives in a group home in Manchester under the care of
the state Department of Developmental Services. Police cited records
that said the woman has the mental ability of a young teenager and was
"unable to avoid being taken advantage of sexually."
Beginning last summer, the woman joined a vocational program run by
Goodwill of Western & Northern Connecticut. She and others were
transported to stores in the Manchester and East Hartford area, where
they arranged magazine racks, police said. Wilson was the woman's job
coach and also the driver of the van that tranported the employees.
Wilson began coaxing the woman to have sex with him last year, soon
after she joined the Goodwill program, police said. Over several months,
police say, Wilson sexually assaulted her in a van parked at a Stop &
Shop supermarket in Manchester and other store parking lots, in his home
in East Hartford, at his girlfriend's home in Bloomfield and in women's
bathrooms at stores where she was assigned to work. On one occasion,
East Hartford police said, Wilson persuaded the woman to have a
"threesome" with him and his male friend.
Although the victim told Wilson she did not want to have sex, the victim
said Wilson would threaten to hit her if she did not comply and also
plied her with drugs and alcohol, police said.
In February, the victim told a manager at her group home about the
abuse, police said. She was brought to Manchester Memorial Hospital,
where the criminal investigation began. Goodwill fired Wilson after
completing its own investigation, according to a statement from the
nonprofit organization.
When East Hartford investigators confronted him about the allegations,
Wilson at first denied having sex with the woman, but then said that he
and she had consensual sex in 2011, police said. At the end of the
interview, Wilson began crying, police said.
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June 06, 2013|By JESSE LEAVENWORTH, The Hartford Courant
MANCHESTER A former job coach for Goodwill has been charged with
repeatedly sexually assaulting an employee who has intellectual
disabilities at locations in Manchester, East Hartford and Bloomfield,
police said.
Kenneth Wilson, 40, of East Hartford, was being held Thursday on bail
totaling $1 million. He is scheduled to appear in Manchester Superior
Court on July 1.
Manchester police arrested Wilson last week and charged him with eight
counts of second-degree sexual assault. The charges are under a section
of the law about "mentally defective" victims who are unable to consent
to sex.
East Hartford police charged Wilson with first-degree sexual assault,
contending that he used threats and force to have sex with the woman.
The 22-year-old victim was described by police as having mild mental
retardation. She lives in a group home in Manchester under the care of
the state Department of Developmental Services. Police cited records
that said the woman has the mental ability of a young teenager and was
"unable to avoid being taken advantage of sexually."
Beginning last summer, the woman joined a vocational program run by
Goodwill of Western & Northern Connecticut. She and others were
transported to stores in the Manchester and East Hartford area, where
they arranged magazine racks, police said. Wilson was the woman's job
coach and also the driver of the van that tranported the employees.
Wilson began coaxing the woman to have sex with him last year, soon
after she joined the Goodwill program, police said. Over several months,
police say, Wilson sexually assaulted her in a van parked at a Stop &
Shop supermarket in Manchester and other store parking lots, in his home
in East Hartford, at his girlfriend's home in Bloomfield and in women's
bathrooms at stores where she was assigned to work. On one occasion,
East Hartford police said, Wilson persuaded the woman to have a
"threesome" with him and his male friend.
Although the victim told Wilson she did not want to have sex, the victim
said Wilson would threaten to hit her if she did not comply and also
plied her with drugs and alcohol, police said.
In February, the victim told a manager at her group home about the
abuse, police said. She was brought to Manchester Memorial Hospital,
where the criminal investigation began. Goodwill fired Wilson after
completing its own investigation, according to a statement from the
nonprofit organization.
When East Hartford investigators confronted him about the allegations,
Wilson at first denied having sex with the woman, but then said that he
and she had consensual sex in 2011, police said. At the end of the
interview, Wilson began crying, police said.
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