A 28-One year-primitive male man who labored at a Massachusetts college for disabled students surrendered to police on Friday, and became charged in connection to the alleged rape of a female student, authorities acknowledged.
Phillip Houtman modified into himself in at Wareham District Court, at about 2 p.m. on Friday, Middleborough police spokesman Benjamin Paulin announced.
An arrest warrant for Houtman had been issued on Thursday afternoon. He allegedly raped the 19-One year-primitive cognitively disabled student in her dorm at Chamberlain Global Faculty in Middleborough, about 35 miles south of Boston, police acknowledged.
The Unique Bedford man has been charged with two counts of mistaken assault and battery on an particular particular person with an mental disability, rape, assault to rape, and start and immoral lewdness, police acknowledged.
The alleged rape took plot on Sept. 29 on the boarding college that serves students ages 11 to 22 with cognitive and developmental concerns and disabilities, officers acknowledged. It became reported to police on Sept. 30.
Houtman labored an in a single day shift on the faculty, but a police spokesman did no longer specify what his right job became.
The college removed him from its work schedule as soon as the allegation surfaced, NBC Boston reported.
The college despatched a letter to folks and guardians informing them of “a prime allegation that a group (member) engaged in depraved behavior with a student,”the outlet reported.
“As a college, we are attempting to derive it positive that the nicely-being and security of all students is our top precedence,” the faculty’s letter acknowledged.
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