A man who worked as a security guard at a D.C. middle school in Georgetown has been charged with sexually abusing a student seven years ago, when she was in the eighth grade, according to police and an arrest affidavit filed in court.
“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.
Police identified the school guard as Shaquille Rashaun Jones, now 30, of Upper Marlboro, Md., in Prince George’s County. Police said they arrested him Friday and charged him with two counts of first-degree child sex abuse. A judge freed him and set a preliminary hearing for March 7.
An attorney listed for Jones in court documents did not respond to an interview request. Efforts to reach Jones were not successful.
A spokeswoman for the D.C. school system said Jones stopped working for the agency in 2018. She could not provide further details.
D.C. police sent out a news release Saturday that noted the arrest but did not disclose the connection to the school.
The arrest affidavit says the woman told police that Jones began working at the school when she entered the eighth grade, when she was 13 years old. She was 14 by the end of that school year. Police said the abuse occurred between March 1, 2017, and June 30, 2017, when Jones was 24 years old. The woman told police Jones became friendly with her, gave her “extra attention” and drove her home from school, according to the affidavit.
Several times a week, the woman said, she met Jones in his SUV in the school parking lot, where sexual activity occurred, the affidavit says. Once, she told police, Jones drove her to a parking lot for tennis courts in Rock Creek Park, along 16th Street NW, where he sexually abused her, the affidavit says.
The woman said she continued to communicate with Jones after she left middle school but then demanded he stop contacting her, the affidavit says. She told police she saw Jones at a high school event that was staffed by extra security, “in an elevated section of the auditorium watching her,” the affidavit says.
Authorities said in the affidavit the woman turned over images of message exchanges between her and Jones over Instagram.
