Detroit – “He’s the bogeyman. He’s the worst bogeyman you could ever think of,” said the mother of 24-year-old Trevon Ziglar’s alleged victim.
Ziglar, a former security guard at Cornerstone Jefferson-Douglass Academy in Detroit, is accused of sexually assaulting the young teen over a five-month period.
“I thought she was safe. I trusted them, and they failed. Drastically,” the mother said.
While Ziglar has been charged and remains behind bars, the teen’s mother has hired Attorney Ven Johnson because they both want to know who failed her daughter.
“How was he getting this young girl alone, and no one saw that?” said Johnson. “He’s a security guard. He’s supposed to be protecting her — Making sure nobody is getting hurt at school or has weapons or anything like that, and he’s in there raping her.”
The teen’s mother says Ziglar befriended her daughter, acting like a sort of a “big brother” figure, but began manipulating, threatening, and abusing her.
Prosecutors say May 20, 2024, Ziglar was caught having sex with the teen in a stairwell of the school.
Video cameras even captured the two entering the stairwell for 20 minutes; another student allegedly witnessed it.
Prosecutors said Ziglar pressured the teen to tell the witness not to tell anyone.
The teen’s mother said text messages allegedly sent to her daughter by Ziglar are simply sickening, and her daughter is traumatized from engaging in aggressive sexual acts with Ziglar, some, she says — involving choking and threats.
“Some of the texts are threatening. Some of the texts are persuasive and manipulative. When you’re licking her whole face and things like that — that’s disturbing," Ziglar said. “I don’t think she’s looked at a man the same, and I don’t think she ever will.”
The teen’s mother and her attorney are gathering information and plan to take legal action in the coming months, asking any potential witnesses or victims to come forward. ,
Meanwhile, Ziglar, according to Cornerstone schools, has been fired from the school and Securitas.
Cornerstone schools told Local 4 on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2025:
“There is nothing more important than the safety and well-being of the students we serve, so we are encouraged that justice is taking its course with the suspect’s recent arrest. We will continue to be available to Detroit Police and the prosecutor’s office as needed for their case, just as we were upon first learning of the allegations back in May 2024. At that time, we immediately contacted the Detroit Police Department and simultaneously notified Securitas, the security company that employed the suspect, to prohibit him from entering any of our school properties. He was fired at that time and at no time was he ever at any Cornerstone school since the accusations were first made.”
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