On March 26, detectives with the Washington Police Department, along with the Department of Children Services, responded to a report from the Pike County Sheriff’s Office regarding a sexual assault that had occurred at the East Side Park. Upon investigation into the alleged assault, it was determined that 24-year-old Jonathon Thomas of Evansville, while working as a service provider for a minor child, assaulted the child in his care. The agency Thomas worked for was not the Department of Children Services. After an investigation into the incident, Thomas was located at his residence in Evansville and taken into custody. Thomas was arrested on charges of Level 1 Felony Child Molestation.
