CCSD: Overnight custodian arrested for ‘lewd acts’ while alone in classroom

New details were released Wednesday about the arrest of a 42-year-old Clark County School District employee who police say performed "lewd acts on himself" 36 times while working as an overnight custodian at a southwest valley elementary school.

Michael Skelton was arrested Monday after he was caught on video surveillance overnight Sunday performing a lewd act on himself and "discharging bodily fluids," said CCSD police Sgt. Mitch Maciszak.

A teacher at Dondero Elementary School, 4450 Ridgeville St., near the intersection of West Harmon Avenue and South Jones Boulevard, on Dec. 7 reported that she found possible bodily fluids on several items in her classroom.

She told police that on four separate occasions she found what appeared to be bodily fluids on her lip balm, a sweater, in a bottle of vitamins and in a container of candy, Maciszak said. Police believe the "bodily fluids" were semen, he said.

School district police watched classroom surveillance footage from Sunday night and arrested Skelton on Monday at a CCSD administration building where he was working. He faces multiple charges of lewdness, malicious destruction of property and poisoning or adulterating food, water or medicine.

Skelton told police the acts were not personal and that he found the classroom "quiet and comfortable." He also admitted to doing the act 36 times in the same room, Maciszak said.

Maciszak emphasized Skelton was an overnight custodian and was never on campus while students were present.

Skelton is being held on $150,000 bail at the Clark County Detention Center. His status with the school district is "absent without authorized leave," but will be downgraded to "suspended without pay" when he is released, Maciszak said.

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