A 62-year-old man from Graham has been arrested for the alleged physical assault of a child at South Mebane Elementary School.
William Thomas Whitehurst reportedly turned himself in to the authorities on Tuesday after Mebane’s police department charged him with a misdemeanor for his allegedly rough handling of the 11-year-old child.
According to the warrant, the 62-year-old white male, who hails from 514 West Gilbreath Street in Graham, assaulted the child on Tuesday afternoon “by grabbing [the] victim’s hoodie and pulling up” on it, “causing [the] victim to not breathe easily.”
Whitehurst currently faces a single misdemeanor count of assault on a child under 12. Court records indicate that the defendant has been released under an unsecured bond of $3,500 – with the added conditions that he must have no contact with either the victim or the victim’s relatives and may not enter the grounds of any local school system facility.
