Wade Lawrence Green (Benton County Sheriff”s Office).
An Arkansas man is behind bars after trying to force an abortion on a child victim, according to police in the Natural State.
Wade Lawrence Green, 43, stands accused of two counts of rape, as well as one count each of sexual assault in the second degree, sexual extortion, and concealing birth, according to Benton County Sheriff’s Office records.
The underlying incidents occurred on various occasions beginning in 2020 and up through the spring of 2023, law enforcement officials say.
Over the years, the victim in the harrowing case became pregnant — but the defendant allegedly did not care for that outcome.
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The defendant was arrested Monday after one of the alleged victims reported a “bad man” who was sexually assaulting young girls in a 911 call placed Nov. 9, according to a heavily redacted affidavit obtained by Fort Smith-based CBS affiliate KFSM.
That day, Bentonville Police Department officers rushed over the residence in question and began interviewing the children there. One of the victims — still underage at the time of her interview with police — said Green began sexually abusing her in 2020.
Content warning: child sexual abuse
“[Redacted] stated the abuse from Wade started when she was 10 or 11,” the affidavit reads. “She said Wade would tell her that he wanted her to grow up and eventually be his wife and that it wasn’t pedophilia because they loved each other.”
That sexual abuse, the child said, eventually led to her becoming pregnant by Wade in 2023, police claim in the charging document.
In turn, the defendant tried to abort the unborn child with an array of brutal at-home methods — including punching the girl in the stomach repeatedly and shoving a metal rod inside of her, police allege.
In March 2023, the underage victim gave birth inside the residence, she told police. The baby, however, was stillborn.
The child victim blacked out while giving birth, she told police. The victim said she never saw her baby — but knew the newborn was dead, according to the affidavit. The victim went on to say she assumed Green put the tiny body into a trash bag and disposed of the remains.
The girl also said she never once went to a hospital throughout the miscarriage or the recovery process, authorities say.
In a follow-up interview with a child advocate, the girl went on to say she endured instances of coercion, psychological and physical abuse in addition to the rape and forced abortion attempt, police claim.
And then, only weeks postpartum, the defendant began sexually assaulting the girl again, she told police. The abuse only stopped after she stopped living at Green’s residence, according to the affidavit.
The victim further said she was threatened by the defendant that he would release videos of him raping her should she ever tell anyone about her experiences inside of his residence, police say.
Green is also alleged to have told multiple people he was a former Marine and special forces member who was capable of killing someone and concealing his own guilt, authorities say.
The allegations against Green may only be the start.
In comments to the TV station, a spokesperson for the Bentonville Police Department said their investigation was “very active” and included multiple child victims — but declined to release details.
The defendant is currently detained in the Benton County Jail on $500,000 bond. He is slated to appear in court on Dec. 22.
