Counselor for troubled girls charged with
sexual assault
Associated Press
April 14 2006
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A city man was charged Thursday with sexually
assaulting two girls who were in his care when he was a counselor at a
shelter for troubled girls.
Members of the Connecticut FBI Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force arrested
Larry Johnson, 30, at his home. He was charged with three counts of
second-degree sexual assault and one count of impairing the morals of a
minor, the Connecticut Post reported.
Johnson was arraigned in Superior Court later Thursday. A judge set bond at
$250,000 and continued the case for two weeks.
Johnson was a counselor at the state-funded Community Solutions' Thorner
Hall in Norwalk, which served teenage girls who were clients of the state
Department of Children and Families.
The Norwalk shelter was shut down and Johnson was fired after DCF learned
about the allegations, agency spokesman Gary Kleeblatt said.
A 17-year-old girl who lived at the shelter told police in July 2005 that
Johnson forced her to have sexual intercourse at his home three times and
made her perform oral sex, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
She also told authorities that Johnson took her and two other girls to his
home in February 2005 when he was supposed to bring them to a nail salon.
She said Johnson gave the girls marijuana to smoke and forced her to have
sex, according to the affidavit.
A 14-year-old girl complained last September that Johnson forced her to
perform oral sex on him at the shelter and videotaped it, the affidavit
said.