Bishop Black
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A former Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter employee has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of raping a 10-year-old girl, the Benton County prosecutor confirmed on Friday, Jan. 20.
Hunter De La Garza was arrested in 2022 after a child abuse hotline call reported that he raped a 10-year-old girl in the bathroom of the Promenade Mall in Rogers during a "one-on-one outing" in February 2021.
In the documents, police said they reached out to the shelter director who said she had fired De La Garza after there had been "several issues." She told police that De La Garza was accused of making racist remarks to the kids at the shelter and that he had gone into the bathroom with a six-year-old to "help" even though it was against the shelter policy.
