According to news reports a 24 year old man named William A Bates Jr., of Kansas City is charged with first degree attempted sodomy and attempted statutory sodomy with a person under 12.
At Kemp playground a two year old was playing on a swing when her mother noticed Bates allegedly “eyeballing her children.” The mother told police that Bates then approached her daughter and grabbed her off the swing before allegedly grabbing the girl by the hips and pulling down her diaper. The mother said that she saw Bates lift his shirt and pull down his pants, to which then he started thrusting against her daughter.
Reportedly the police say she ran after Bates, knocking him to the ground, and while he was down she was attacking him with her fists. Bates eventually freed himself and ran from the park, but the mother ran to a nearby homeless shelter and called the police. Officers arrested Bates near the playground.
The police reportedly found marijuana and a liquid substance with a chemical odor on him. Later the mother identified Bates as the attacker, from a photo taken by the police.
While Bates was being detained at the Jackson County Detention center, Bates told the police he had gotten a cigarette from someone near the playground and doesn’t remember anything of the incident until he awoke inside a fenced area and was taken into custody by the police.
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