Sexual assault on students; New charges against Kenosha County school employee

KENOSHA COUNTY, WI. – He previously worked at Kenosha County Elementary School accused of sexual molestation of a childis charged with four new crimes in the case district prosecutor’s office announced on Friday.

The sheriff’s office said Anna Marie Crocker, 33, worked at Riverview Elementary School in Silver Lake. According to the school district’s website, she started working as a substitute in 2020 and became a full-time educational assistant the following year. The Silver Lake-Salem Joint 1 School District board held a special meeting Oct. 14 to announce her termination.

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New details of the case

Twin Lakes police spoke with the 13-year-old boy and his parents on Oct. 10 – the day Crocker was formally charged. According to the amended complaint, the victim stated to a school employee that Crocker had sent him inappropriate messages, including multiple videos of him performing a sex act.

The victim stated that when it opened, she initially thought it was an “exercise video,” but according to the complaint, she did not respond, claiming she was “too young for it.” The victim also said she became scared because she heard Crocker “raped” another minor.

According to prosecutors, a search of Crocker’s cell phone uncovered several videos that appeared similar to those described by the victim. It also emerged that Crocker had added the victim on Snapchat in September and within days they had exchanged over 200 messages, photos and videos.

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According to the case files, a search of Crocker’s Snapchat data also found a conversation between her and a 16-year-old boy that she added to the platform on October 9 – the day before her arrest.

The messages showed she asked the victim if he wanted to have sex with her. She tried to plan for the boy to come to her house for sex on October 11; she would ultimately be in custody that day. The victim told investigators that they had talked about having sex but “it never went through.” He also said she sent him photos “in which gender was ‘inferred’.”

Details of the previous case

According to the sheriff’s department, the alleged crimes involved a current and former student at the school.

Prosecutors say the alleged sexual assault occurred last winter. The 13-year-old victim said he was at Crocker’s house for a sleepover and was sleeping in the basement when Crocker woke him up, took off his pants and sexually assaulted him. He said Crocker tried to hide, but other children “saw what happened.”

According to the complaint, the victim stated that the incident was not consensual and that he repeatedly told her to get out and tried to push her away, but she did not listen. He was 12 years old then.

Months later, the complaint said the victim received a text message from Crocker telling him to apologize to her “for what happened in the basement.” He described it as “an attempt to make him feel guilty.” She told him she couldn’t tell anyone what happened.

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Prosecutors say the 14-year-old boy also reported that Crocker “behaved inappropriately toward him” and the two exchanged “sexual conversations and photos” via Snapchat. He also said Crocker sexually assaulted her in a parking lot in August.

In an interview with a detective, the complaint states that Crocker admitted to receiving a sexually explicit video from the 14-year-old victim and saving it. She also admitted sending the video to a student from the victim’s school. The detective grabbed and searched the phone, and the video was located in a password-protected part of the phone.

In court

In total, Crocker was initially charged with:

• First Degree Sexual Assault (under age 13)

• Possession of child pornography

• Child sexual abuse (filming)

The new charges brought against her include:

Court records show she is being held in the Kenosha County Jail on $500,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 22.