After several preliminary hearing delays, former Grayson County High School teacher Roger Williams will have his sexual abuse case turned over to the Grayson County Grand Jury.
In a preliminary hearing last week, specially appointed Judge C. Derek Reed heard evidence from Special Prosecutor Jon Heck in the case, and determined that there was enough evidence to warrant forwarding the case to the grand jury.
(A special prosecutor and judge are required in the case due to Williams being the brother of Grayson County Commonwealth Attorney David Williams.)
The investigation into Williams’ behavior began when school authorities were notified that Williams, who was arrested on May 9, had “inappropriately touched” a 17-year-old female student on multiple occasions. Upon interviewing the student, she told Kentucky State Police Detective Ken Borders that Williams began the inappropriate relationship “around Christmas time of 2017.”
The victim told authorities that Williams, 62, of Clarkson, gave her his cell phone number and they “texted back and forth talking about sexual acts.”
The student told Det. Borders that in March, when former Grayson County High School teacher Jonathan Jones was arrested for third-degree sodomy involving a female student, “Williams told her to delete the text messages and take his number out of the phone, just in case.”
The report says that on April 20, “Williams asked her to go into the bathroom and take photographs of her privates.” The student complied, with Williams then taking a picture of the photograph with his phone. His thinking, according to the student, was to minimize the chances of him being caught.
The arrest report continues, saying that on May 3 and May 8 “Williams placed his hand on her bare” genitalia “while he was seated at his desk at the high school.”
Under questioning, Williams admitted to Kentucky State Police “that he had texted the victim about sexual acts; that he had taken pictures of the victim’s photographs depicting her bare” body and that he had “touched the victim’s bare” genitalia “on at least two occasions while in the school.”
Williams also told police that he had told the victim that when she turned 18 “she could come to his house and he would provide marijuana and” perform a sex act on her.
Williams has been charged with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and possessing/viewing matter portraying a sex act by a minor, both class D felonies. He is currently free on bond.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com or 270-259-6000
