Doesn't NASCAR screen their employees?



http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slug=ap-nascarpublicist-arrest&prov=ap&type=lgns

Girl's affidavit says ex-publicist claimed sexual encounters with 50 kids

February 8, 2006

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A teenage girl who allegedly had a lengthy sexual
relationship with a former NASCAR publicist told authorities the man claimed
to have victimized more than 50 children across the country, court documents
say.

Richard ``Chip'' Williams, 48, was charged last week with raping a child --
a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet when she was 11 -- and
soliciting a minor for sex over the Internet. He is being held in lieu of $2
million bail.

An affidavit says the 14-year-old girl said she knew the man who had sex
with her as ``John Wisham,'' which police say is the identity Williams used
online.

She said Wisham claimed ``to have been with over 50 children in various
forms of sexual exploitation.''

``Hogwash,'' responded Williams' attorney, Locke Clifford.

The affidavit was part of a search warrant sought by a Guilford County
sheriff's detective for Williams' home and business in Mooresville.

Williams was NASCAR's spokesman from 1982 to 1994, when he started his own
business.

In the affidavit, Detective George Moore says he read a sexually explicit
online conversation between the girl and ``Wisham,'' then watched as she
engaged the man in another explicit online conversation.

During another online chat, the girl introduced ``Wisham'' to an undercover
officer, who posed as a 15-year-old girl, the affidavit said. It said
``Wisham'' discussed sex in the online chat.

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