Counselor Charged with Raping Teen Boy

He was trusted to give guidance. Now, a counselor faces charges that could send him to prison for life.

A Macomb County teenager under the age of 15 was ordered to serve out a detention period at Lakeside Academy. It's a facility for troubled boys in Kalmazoo. While this boy was staying at Lakeside, the prosecutor says the counselor sexually assaulted him.

"It's horrible. It was an egregious act, and you expect somebody who's housed in a facility to be in a safe haven, and what happened here... it's unbelievable," said attorney Steven Lyle Schwartz.

27-year-old Kimeon Bolden is now charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The prosecutor says Bolden was the counselor in charge of night watch, which was security that evening when he raped the teen.

Schwartz is asking for millions of dollars in a civil suit filed against both Lakeside and Bolden.

If convicted, Bolden's maximum sentence would be life in prison.