Man charged with raping girl, 6: Ex-Marine held under $1M bond
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The suspect, William Joseph Wilson, 20, is charged with two counts of child rape and is being held under a $1 million bond at Warren County Jail. If convicted, Wilson could face 15 to 25 years in prison on each count.
The crime was reported Monday after the child began severely bleeding from her private area. The girl was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for treatment of her injuries.
Wilson, a friend of the girl’s family who had been baby-sitting the child at the time, was immediately summoned for questioning and soon tendered a confession.
In his statement to investigators of the McMinnville Police Department and District Attorney General’s office, Wilson at first claimed he blacked out while baby-sitting the girl and awoke to find her bleeding and himself covered in the child’s blood.
However, during further questioning, Wilson reportedly admitted he held the child down while she resisted and cried and committed the rape. Wilson reportedly maintained he committed the rape out of anger; however, he did not disclose the reason for his anger.
In addition to the incident late Monday afternoon, Wilson reportedly admitted to molesting the same girl over a period of months this summer when he baby-sat her, recalling at least four other occasions where he fondled and molested her. Wilson also volunteered that he had sexually abused another child in Jacksonville, N.C. Investigators are alerting authorities there to Wilson’s confession.
According to lawmen, Wilson was a former U.S. Marine, who served a short stint in the exclusive military branch.