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Former South Whitley school resource officer arrested

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WHITLEY COUNTY, Ind. (WOWO): Former South Whitley Police Officer Matthew Gilbert has been arrested for failure to report a rape.

Our Partners in News at ABC 21 say the arrest came after an investigation into a complaint. It accused Gilbert of not reporting that a 16-year-old girl was raped at the beginning of this school year.

Gilbert is charged with failure to report a sexual assault, a class B misdemeanor. He has bonded out of the Whitley County Jail and will appear in court Monday afternoon.

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