Update: Wendell Smith pleads guilty to 4th degree sex assault charge
Wendell Smith
MILWAUKEE -- 52-year-old Wendell Smith pleaded guilty on Friday, May 6th to two criminal charges in the wake of accusations he sexually assaulted a child.
Smith was charged in April with one count of fourth degree sexual assault of a child, and one count of causing mental harm to a child for alleged incidents that occurred between February 2007 and February 2008.
The criminal complaint filed in this case indicates in January of 2016, the victim, who is now 19 years old, walked into the police department to report sexual assaults that happened to her when she was a child — beginning when she was about 10 years old.
When reporting the sexual assault to police, the victim indicated Smith’s actions “continue to affect her to this day” so that is why she finally reported the incidents to police.
Officials with Milwaukee Public Schools told FOX6 News Smith served as the principal at Longfellow School near Layton Boulevard and National Avenue in Milwaukee since 2003. He resigned from that position on March.
An MPS spokesman told FOX6 News the allegations in this case do not involve a Longfellow student -- and there is no indication anything happened at the school.
Smith will be sentenced on June 9th.