‘The pattern of predators’: Guardian of Urban Air assault victim speaks out

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The guardian of the 7-year-old boy, sufferer of the City Air assault incident, speaks out for the primary time concerning the incident, and what different dad and mom ought to know.

The Richmond County College System on Friday afternoon launched the personnel file of the instructor’s aide who was arrested this week after authorities say he was caught tickling and licking the toes of a 7-year-old boy at a enterprise standard with children.

Based on authorities, Caurey Rollins, 25, of Augusta, was arrested Wednesday and accused of licking a baby’s toes between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Jan. 14.

Now the guardian that made the report, is talking out.

“The sample of predators. They discover a means, they are going to revolve their entire life round their fantasy,” Caitlin Phillips, the sufferer’s guardian says.

Chilling phrases for any guardian to listen to. We’re studying extra about what occurred that day, we went dwell at Glenn Hills Elementary College the place the suspect used to work.

This occurred just a little over a month in the past on the City Air Journey Park close to Goal on Robert C. Daniel and so they inform us the person who did it was there by himself.

Rollins is the person deputies arrested for licking the toes of a 7-year-old boy. He’s additionally a former instructor’s assistant at Glenn Hills elementary. He advised authorities he was on the trampoline park visiting household, however they later came upon that wasn’t the case.

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We spoke with the guardian of the sufferer earlier and she or he says she panicked when he advised her what occurred.

“He mentioned ‘there was an grownup and he requested me to sit down down in entrance of him and he um, needed me to take away my socks and began rubbing on my toes. After which he began licking them’.. like licking his toes,” Phillips says.

Rollins is charged with non-aggravated little one molestation and we’re discovering extra about what occurred that day and the way dad and mom are feeling now.

“At any time when one of many youngsters got here down, that was with me he got here to me with a really involved look on his face and he talked about to me that there was an grownup up there that.. At first, he described was tickling his toes, and that alarmed me,” Phillips says.

Since information broke of a person arrested at City Air for touching a baby’s toes, dad and mom on social media have expressed considerations the suspect used to work as a instructor’s support at Glenn Hills.

The personnel file reveals that the varsity district knowledgeable the Glenn Hills Elementary bodily schooling aide on Jan. 17 that it had realized of the incident and he can be positioned on administrative go away for an undetermined variety of days.

On Feb. 11, he submitted his formal resignation stating it was in his finest curiosity to step down, and on that very same date, a Saturday, the district accepted his resignation. Mother and father are actually questioning how this occurred.

Unattended, with a plan, it’s how deputies say Rollins went into City Air on Jan. 14 the place authorities kicked him out after a 7-year-old boy says he licked his toes.

Phillips says, “That could be a sexual offense. Someone messing along with your toes. You already know, it’s a baby, primary, and the particular person has no consent to the touch you, , in any means.”

The incident report says the kid mentioned Rollins requested him to take away his socks after which finally licked each of his toes. Mother and father are actually outraged that this former instructor’s support was ever allowed close to their youngsters.

“I pulled up behind the car that he was stepping into. And I noticed that he had an educator tag and I simply busted into tears,” Phillips says.

On Fb, Shekia Johnson says, “My head is in 1,000,000 locations proper now, sending my youngsters to a faculty you’ll assume they’re in good arms.”

Phillips says she’s simply blissful Rollins is lastly off of the streets.

“Fortunately they have been in a position to do this in order that we might forestall this from occurring farther from this household,” Phillips says.

Mother and father say they nonetheless haven’t been notified about any of this from the varsity. Or why he was initially placed on administrative go away.

We’re persevering with to dig deeper into why.

READ THE PERSONNEL FILE:

After his arrest, Rollins was charged with non-aggravated little one molestation.

An incident report from Richmond County deputies describes what occurred at City Air Journey Park, 207 Robert C. Daniel Jr. Parkway.

Upon arrival, deputies met with enterprise proprietor William Gilbert, who said Rollins was unaccompanied within the constructing and in a fenced-in space the place youngsters play.

The guardian of the sufferer advised Gilbert that Rollins approached the sufferer within the fenced space.

The sufferer said Rollins tickled his toes, requested him to take away his socks, and licked each of his toes.

Rollins advised deputies he was initially there with household, however they’d left.

The proprietor said that safety cameras didn’t report the incident on account of location.

The guardian of the kids advised Information 12 the enterprise was very apologetic and mentioned it plans to develop the protection areas of the cameras.

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The Georgia Skilled Requirements Fee was open about Rollins’ certification. It mentioned he was licensed as a paraprofessional educator as of Sept. 27, 2022, and that the certification is legitimate by means of June 30, 2027.

Rollins was in Richmond County jail on Friday, in keeping with jail information.

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