A Chicago man was sentenced to 11 years behind bars after he was caught on camera sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl in front of other first-graders during a remote learning class in 2020.
Catrell Walls, 21, pleaded guilty to a felony sexual assault charge for the Oct. 15, 2020, attack which was witnessed by the child’s horrified teacher on a Google Meet session during the pandemic.
The first-grade teacher told the students to mute themselves and turn off their cameras during a short break.
The girl muted herself but didn’t turn off the camera and that’s when the instructor saw Walls force her to perform oral sex.
The teacher quickly yelled for the other first-graders to log off and then saw Walls pick up the laptop and shut it, prosecutors said.