LAYTON, Utah, Sept. 15, 2017 (Gephardt Daily) — A Layton teenager who police say has molested five neighborhood boys, age 7 through 12, may have assaulted five others.
Alexander Clifton Winward, 18, is being held in the Davis County Jail on eight counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
“We have five confirmed victims and a potential of maybe five more,” Det. Sgt. Riley Richins, Layton City Police, told Gephardt Daily. “We are still actively investigating.”
Richins said that Winward and his family have been cooperative, and have provided victims’ names.
“That’s how we originally got the other names,” Richins said. “They are trying to do the right thing, and help the other families who are involved.”
According to a probable cause statement, Winward pulled down the pants and underpants of each boy, and touched their genitals, skin to skin. In several cases, he molested one boy in the presence of others. The assaults took place in and around Winward’s house, the statement says.
“The Defendant told the Child 2 that in order to play on the X-Box, Child 2 would have to let this happen,” the probable cause statement said of one incident. “Child 1 and Child 3 were present during this incident.”
In another incident, the statement says, “Child 2 and Child 3 were hiding underneath covers from the Defendant during a Nerf War game,” the statement says. “The Defendant tried to pull the covers and reached underneath the covers and touched both genitals of Child 2 and Child 3.”
Gephardt Daily will have more information as this story develops.
WTH is going on. Sick people.