Manager Accused of Groping Teen Employee

A 34-year-old man has been charged with indecency with a child for allegedly groping a 16-year-old girl while he was working as her manager at a fast food restaurant in Wake Village.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with indecency with a child for allegedly groping a 16-year-old girl while he was working as her manager at a fast food restaurant in Wake Village.

James Matthew Jenkins, 34, allegedly cornered the teen employee while she was mopping a public bathroom in the Chicken Express restaurant at 4708 W. 7th St. last month.

Jenkins is currently free on a $100,000 bond, according to the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office.

If convicted of indecency with a child by contact, Jenkins faces two to twenty years in prison.

The case has been assigned to 202nd District Judge John Tidwell.

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