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TYLER — A former Hope Haven of East Texas employee will spend 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a resident last year. According to our news partner KETK, Aaron Williams, 41, was accused of taking a teenage girl, who was staying at Hope Haven, to the organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office building and raping her in his personal office. The ministry’s goal is to “provide a safe home environment, for abused and neglected girls in the foster care system.”<\/p>\n
The victim said she ran away from the home in April of 2020, but returned. Three weeks later Williams took her in his personal car to his office and once everyone else left, he assaulted her. Williams told the victim to keep the encounter a secret, because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he could get into a lot of trouble and go to jail if she told.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to a warrant obtained by KETK News, Williams was the Director of Residential Operations and he himself had established a rule in 2019 that employees could not have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one-on-one sessions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d alone with residents. Multiple employees had noticed that Williams was having these sessions with the victim.<\/p>\n
After the assault, Williams took the victim to a company picnic in his personal car, something else that employees were not supposed to do alone with residents. Investigators found several instances on security footage that Williams would go with the victim alone in his car or walk into the woods. The documents state that his ex-wife confronted him about the accusations and that Williams said the victim tried to seduce him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — A former Hope Haven of East Texas employee will spend 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a resident last year. According to our news partner KETK, Aaron Williams, 41, was accused of taking a teenage girl, who was staying at Hope Haven, to the organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office building and raping … Continue reading Former Hope Haven employee sentenced for raping resident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":964253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/Aaron-Williams-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Former Hope Haven employee sentenced for raping resident","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 13:36:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/Aaron-Williams-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Former Hope Haven employee sentenced for raping resident","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964252,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964237\/revisions\/964252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/964253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}