{"id":205062,"date":"2020-08-03T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=205062"},"modified":"2020-08-04T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:09:50","slug":"man-charged-with-sexually-abusing-autistic-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=205062","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with sexually abusing autistic girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamestown\u00a0 (KVLY<\/a>) \u2013 A 22-year-old man who worked at a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities is facing a charge of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl with autism.<\/p>\n

Michael Patrick Hunt-Walters of Jamestown was arrested on Monday for gross sexual imposition, according to Stutsman County District Court records.<\/p>\n

Hunt-Walters is accused of sexually assaulting the child on November 15 of 2019.<\/p>\n

Investigators said Hunt-Walters worked for the Anne Carlsen Center in Jamestown. He apparently watched the victim for about two hours and fifteen minutes after school.<\/p>\n

The victim came home with blood on her underwear and bruises on her inner thighs, according to court documents. She was surrounded by several para educators throughout her school day who didn\u2019t notice any injuries.<\/p>\n

Investigators said her grandparents noticed a change in her once Hunt-Walters dropped the victim off at their home. The 7 year old ran from his car to the house and wouldn\u2019t sit down for supper.<\/p>\n

The grandmother took the child to the Jamestown Regional Medical Center and that\u2019s when a Jamestown police detective was notified.<\/p>\n

The next day the girl was taken to Fargo for a sexual assault exam, and that\u2019s where examiners found evidence of abuse, according to court records.<\/p>\n

Hunt-Walters denied to investigators that\u00a0 he hurt or assaulted the victim.<\/p>\n

Several follow up interviews were done with investigators and a clinical psychologist where the girl said that Hunt-Walters \u201churt her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valley News Live, reports,\u00a0 Anne Carlsen Center Chief Executive Officer Tim Essinger said on Monday in a statement,\u00a0 \u201cOur hearts hurt for the child and family involved in this terrible situation. From the first moment we were made aware of the allegation, we pledged our full and complete cooperation to investigators.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown\u00a0 (KVLY) \u2013 A 22-year-old man who worked at a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities is facing a charge of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl with autism. Michael Patrick Hunt-Walters of Jamestown was arrested on Monday for gross sexual imposition, according to Stutsman County District Court records. Hunt-Walters is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205122,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205062\/revisions\/205122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}