A former school custodian from Mount Horeb was found guilty late Wednesday of sexually assaulting a child his former girlfriend had cared for at an in-home daycare more than a decade ago.
A jury took a little more than an hour to find James A.A. Myers, 41, guilty of the repeated sexual assault of the same child. The child, who is now 16, had reported to police in 2024 that she remembered being assaulted by Myers several times between Sept. 30, 2012, and Sept. 30, 2015, while at the daycare in a rented house in Mount Horeb where Myers and his then-girlfriend lived.
A book she was reading in school at the time had sparked her memories of the alleged assault, she told police.
Myers was charged in the case on March 7, 2025, when he was still working as a custodian in the Middleton-Cross Plains School District. A spokesperson for the district said on Tuesday that he resigned from that position effective Aug. 6, 2025.