A bouncer at the Sportsway Café in Norton was arraigned today in Attleboro District Court on charges that he raped a Wheaton College student while he was working at the bar early this month, Norton police said.
A Wheaton student called police Feb. 10 to report that she was sexually assaulted by an employee while at the bar with friends about a week earlier, police said.
Following an investigation, Norton police detectives charged Paul Panaikas, 38, of Taunton with rape and indecent assault and battery of a person over the age of 14.