A Babysitting Job Gone Awry

In executing Superior Court arrest warrants this week, Clinton police have charged a 19-year-old woman with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy in her care.

Police charged Loni Bouchard, 19, of 133 West Main Street, Clinton, with second-degree sexual assault, as well as impairing the morals of a child and permitting a minor to possess alcohol, stemming from a consensual sexual relationship she allegedly had with a 14-year-old, police said.

Bouchard had been hired to act as a babysitter for the boy, but the relationship allegedly evolved into a sexual affair that lasted some six months, at which point his mother learned of the romance and reported the matter, police said.

Bouchard was released on her promise to appear for a future court date, but police said their investigation is continuing.

There was no phone number available for Bouchard at the address listed. 

On July 12, Bouchard came to the Clinton Police Department to turn herself in where she was arrested and processed. Bouchard was released on a written promise to appear and provided a court date of July 29 at Middletown Superior Court.

Police said they have investigated an unusually high number of sexual assaults thus far in 2011, and have made arrests in about 95 percent of those cases. None of the 23 cases involved force or abduction, and all were consensual acts between friends or acquaintances that violated state statutes prohibiting sex with someone under the age of consent, they said.