School Security Guard From Upper Marlboro A Suspect In 2017 Sexual Abuse Of Teen: Report

UPPER MARLBORO, MD — A security guard from Upper Marlboro who worked at a Georgetown middle school has been charged in connection to the sexual abuse of a student seven years ago when she was in eighth grade at Hardy Middle School.

Washington, D.C., police issued a press release Feb. 17 about the sexual abuse of a teenage girl from March 2017 through June 2017 when the man involved in the case was 24 years old, but did not disclose the connection to the school district.

Police said the woman, now 21, walked into the 3rd District police station Jan. 28 and reported the sexual abuse that started when she was 13, reports The Washington Post. Police have identified the security guard as Shaquille Rashaun Jones, now 30.

The woman told police Jones became friendly with her, gave her “extra attention” and drove her home from school, according to the affidavit reported by The Washington Post. Several times a week, she met Jones in his SUV in the school parking lot, where sexual activity occurred, the affidavit says. Once, Jones drove her to a parking lot near tennis courts in Rock Creek Park along 16th Street NW where he sexually abused her, the affidavit said.

The woman continued to communicate with Jones after she left middle school but then insisted he stop contacting her, the affidavit stated. Jones has been charged with two counts of first-degree child sex abuse.

“The complainant advised that she had always intended to report what happened to her to the police but she only felt brave enough to do so that night,” police wrote in the affidavit, filed in D.C. Superior Court.

A spokeswoman for the D.C. school system told The Washington Post that Jones stopped working for the agency in 2018.

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