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Ex-guard at school charged with rape
BY DANIEL NASAW
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
A former security guard at a Little Rock high school surrendered to police Thursday to face accusations that he befriended teenage boys, including a student at the school, and then had sexual relations with them.
Lee Anthony Croy, 41, is charged with rape and firstdegree sexual assault.
He is charged with first-degree sexual assault in connection with his relationship with a student at Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School, where he worked for about five years before resigning in June when he learned of a police investigation.
The rape charge stems from an incident that occurred in 1995 involving a boy less than 14 years old, police said.
If convicted, Croy could face up to 40 years or life in prison.
Croy, who police say befriended the teens by inviting them to work in his pit crew at the I-30 Speedway where he raced cars, turned himself in at Little Rock police headquarters at about 11 a.m. Croy, of 12423 Vimy Ridge Road, was released after posting the $10,000 bail set by Little Rock District Court Judge Lee Munson, a court clerk said.
Attempts to reach Croy’s attorney, Dale Adams, for comment Thursday afternoon were unsuccessful. The 16-year-old student with whom Croy is accused of having sexual relations told police he’d been friendly with Croy for about two years and they had spent time together after school and working at the racetrack.
But about six months ago, the teen said, Croy started trying to "do things" to him. In December, for example, the two were camping in Croy’s backyard before a planned hunting trip the next morning when Croy put his hands in the teen’s pants and fondled him and then tried to have sex with him, police said. The teen told an investigator that he and Croy performed sex acts on each other more than 30 times and that he was afraid to not participate.
Soon after the December encounter, the student’s mother told Parkview Principal Linda Brown that her son was to have no more contact with Croy.
The police investigation began June 2 after Little Rock police officer Greg Vint, assigned to the 1,100-student high school as a resource officer, noticed that Croy had picked up another student from school even though he was on extended sick leave, police said.
Vint became curious about Croy’s relationship with the 16-year-old student and questioned him in his office. The student told Vint that he had wanted to end the friendship because Croy was "touching him in the wrong places," police said.
The teen’s mother, who said she didn’t know Croy had been doing anything wrong, told Brown that her son wanted to start dating girls and going to church, and that he was tired of being called a homosexual.
With information gathered from the student and a police officer who works off-duty at the I-30 Speedway, detective Marilyn Scott found a man who said he’d had relations with Croy.
That man, now 23, told Scott he met Croy through neighbors when he was about 13 years old, and that he worked on the pit crew for about five years. During the summer between his seventh and eighth grade, he and Croy began having sexual contact on a trip to Beebe, police said.
Over the next three years, Croy slept over at the boy’s home and the two performed more than 60 sex acts, the man told police. These encounters usually took place in Croy’s racing shop, Croy’s home or in the boy’s home. The man told police that when he was in tenth grade, he told Croy he wanted to date girls, enraging him.
"He continuously told Croy he didn’t want to do this anymore, but it was like Croy had brainwashed him," Scott wrote in an arrest affidavit.
Croy has no prior criminal history in Pulaski County and no prior record of arrest by the Little Rock police department.
Little Rock School District spokesman Suellen Vann said Thursday that a pre-employment background check on Croy was clean. She emphasized that no evidence has come to light that Croy engaged in sexual activity on school grounds, and that the district is cooperating fully with the police investigation.
"With over 4,000 employees, sometimes an employee chooses to do something illegal, and that’s unfortunate," Vann said.
Little Rock police spokesman Sgt. Terry Hastings said an investigation continues into whether Croy had sexual relations with other boys, and that more information is expected in coming weeks.
This story was published Friday, July 01, 2005
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Ex-guard at school charged with rape
BY DANIEL NASAW
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
A former security guard at a Little Rock high school surrendered to police Thursday to face accusations that he befriended teenage boys, including a student at the school, and then had sexual relations with them.
Lee Anthony Croy, 41, is charged with rape and firstdegree sexual assault.
He is charged with first-degree sexual assault in connection with his relationship with a student at Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School, where he worked for about five years before resigning in June when he learned of a police investigation.
The rape charge stems from an incident that occurred in 1995 involving a boy less than 14 years old, police said.
If convicted, Croy could face up to 40 years or life in prison.
Croy, who police say befriended the teens by inviting them to work in his pit crew at the I-30 Speedway where he raced cars, turned himself in at Little Rock police headquarters at about 11 a.m. Croy, of 12423 Vimy Ridge Road, was released after posting the $10,000 bail set by Little Rock District Court Judge Lee Munson, a court clerk said.
Attempts to reach Croy’s attorney, Dale Adams, for comment Thursday afternoon were unsuccessful. The 16-year-old student with whom Croy is accused of having sexual relations told police he’d been friendly with Croy for about two years and they had spent time together after school and working at the racetrack.
But about six months ago, the teen said, Croy started trying to "do things" to him. In December, for example, the two were camping in Croy’s backyard before a planned hunting trip the next morning when Croy put his hands in the teen’s pants and fondled him and then tried to have sex with him, police said. The teen told an investigator that he and Croy performed sex acts on each other more than 30 times and that he was afraid to not participate.
Soon after the December encounter, the student’s mother told Parkview Principal Linda Brown that her son was to have no more contact with Croy.
The police investigation began June 2 after Little Rock police officer Greg Vint, assigned to the 1,100-student high school as a resource officer, noticed that Croy had picked up another student from school even though he was on extended sick leave, police said.
Vint became curious about Croy’s relationship with the 16-year-old student and questioned him in his office. The student told Vint that he had wanted to end the friendship because Croy was "touching him in the wrong places," police said.
The teen’s mother, who said she didn’t know Croy had been doing anything wrong, told Brown that her son wanted to start dating girls and going to church, and that he was tired of being called a homosexual.
With information gathered from the student and a police officer who works off-duty at the I-30 Speedway, detective Marilyn Scott found a man who said he’d had relations with Croy.
That man, now 23, told Scott he met Croy through neighbors when he was about 13 years old, and that he worked on the pit crew for about five years. During the summer between his seventh and eighth grade, he and Croy began having sexual contact on a trip to Beebe, police said.
Over the next three years, Croy slept over at the boy’s home and the two performed more than 60 sex acts, the man told police. These encounters usually took place in Croy’s racing shop, Croy’s home or in the boy’s home. The man told police that when he was in tenth grade, he told Croy he wanted to date girls, enraging him.
"He continuously told Croy he didn’t want to do this anymore, but it was like Croy had brainwashed him," Scott wrote in an arrest affidavit.
Croy has no prior criminal history in Pulaski County and no prior record of arrest by the Little Rock police department.
Little Rock School District spokesman Suellen Vann said Thursday that a pre-employment background check on Croy was clean. She emphasized that no evidence has come to light that Croy engaged in sexual activity on school grounds, and that the district is cooperating fully with the police investigation.
"With over 4,000 employees, sometimes an employee chooses to do something illegal, and that’s unfortunate," Vann said.
Little Rock police spokesman Sgt. Terry Hastings said an investigation continues into whether Croy had sexual relations with other boys, and that more information is expected in coming weeks.
This story was published Friday, July 01, 2005
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