Mar 16, 2021
A McAlester Public School teacher was charged Monday with committing lewd or indecent acts and making lewd or indecent proposals to a child under 16, according to court documents.
Court documents show Lester Young II, 41, of McAlester, was charged with the two felony counts Monday in Pittsburg County District Court.
On the charge of lewd and indecent acts to a child under 16, Young is accused of knowingly and intentionally feeling the buttocks of a student by grabbing her buttocks during a hug on March 9, 2021.
The charge of lewd and indecent proposals to a child under 16 accuses Young of making an electronically-generated lewd proposal to the child under 16 by requesting a hug on March 9.
A judge denied a prosecutor s motion for a mistrial during opening arguments in the trial of McAlester attorney Brecken Wagner, who is charged with misdemeanor counts of obstructing an officer
Jurors consisting of four women and two men along with a female alternate were selected Monday evening to hear the misdemeanor trial the state has filed against McAlester attorney Brecken
CORRECTION: The article has been changed to reflect the correct judge who made the ruling.Â
A man accused of sexually assaulting two young children was granted a bond reduction and was released from the Pittsburg County Jail.
Robert Glen Craig, 40, of Stuart, was bound for trial in November 2019 on three counts of child sexual abuse, rape by instrumentation â child under 14, oral sodomy, and lewd molestation â child under 12 after a then-10-year-old girl came forward with allegations against Craig of sexual abuse for several years, according to documents filed in Pittsburg County District Court.
Craig was charged in January 2020 sexual abuse â child under 12 in Pittsburg County District Court after a new victim came forward with sexual abuse allegations.
‘I used to be suicidal’
Wilson explained she was trying to convince her fellow employee that not all gun owners are bad people, deputies wrote in an incident report at the time.
Wilson allegedly told cops she used to be
‘borderline homicidal to the people of McAlester school because she was bullied.’
Prosecutor Charles Sullivan said he offered the plea deal because it would have been difficult to prove Wilson intended to carry out the threat and that she has no prior criminal record.
‘She has done a lot of proactive treatments that we wanted … it allows her to get her life in order,’ Sullivan said, declining to specify the type of treatment Wilson has received.