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Police today arrested a 39-year-old woman accused of having sexual relationships with two 15-year-old boys.
The suspect's husband spoke to KSL by phone. He did not want to do an interview, on the advice of his attorney, but he did say police don't have all the facts, and they need to get their facts straight.
The suspect met the alleged victims at the Harmons grocery store near 13800 South and Bangerter Highway Draper. Rashelle Wilson was a part-time cashier. Police say one of the victims was a bagger.
Police say Wilson had a sexual relationship with the teen and one of his friends on two occasions over the course of several months. Police say the encounters did not happen in the store.
Officers began to investigate when the boys' relative found inappropriate text messages from Wilson on their phone.
After a month-long investigation, police arrested Wilson yesterday on felony charges. She's being held in the Salt Lake County Jail without bail. Sgt. Gerald Allred of the Draper Police Department said, "Our concern is that we have adults that are perpetrating with minors that are in the age group where they really aren't in the position to be making good decisions about these kinds of life-changing events. So it doesn't matter to us what the gender is on either side of it, we're going after them."
What concerns police is that Wilson also had a profile on the Internet site MySpace. They say the content is sexual explicit, which leads them to believe there could be more victims.
Harmons has issued a statement. It reads in part: At this time Harmons is conducting an internal investigation of the matter. The Utah-based grocery chain has strict policies and procedures on sexual harassment and associate behavior. All employees receive sexual harassment policy information and training, and all managers receive additional training.
Police say this is a good lesson for all parents. Allred said, "I think that's a good idea is to make sure you know what your kids are doing, and those kinds of things are what brought this to light and allowed us to intervene and hopefully bring this to a successful conclusion. Definitely pay attention to what your kids are doing, especially with these text messages and the Internet."
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