Longview ISD Fires Janitor Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teen

LONGVIEW — A man is losing his job as a Longview High School janitor after police arrested him Monday night. The arrest came after a mother said her 14-year-old son told her the 52-year-old man had been sexually assaulting the boy for more than a year.

The Longview school district announced Tuesday morning it will fire Bobby Ray Jackson and is reviewing the charge against him to determine whether further district action is warranted. District spokesman Adam Holland said Jackson was hired in 1996 and spent his entire career with the district at LHS.

Jackson was arrested shortly after 9:00 Monday. He is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and was held Tuesday morning on $100,000 bond.

The boy, whom police said is mentally disabled, told his mother he had been at Jackson’s apartment where Jackson had sexually assaulted him several times. The teen also said the abuse had been occurring for more than a year, whenever he ran away from home and visited Jackson. Those visits sometimes lasted two or three days, the report said. Officers first met with the teen at his home, which is about 10 blocks from Jackson’s residence, before accompanying him and his parents to a local hospital.