Quaylin Tyrell Wesley, 27, an Oakland man working as a summer camp counselor, was scheduled for arraignment Wednesday morning in Oakland on eight felony counts — including six counts of lewd acts on a child — after allegedly entering a UC Berkeley dormitory room in the early morning hours and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old camper.

The case raises troubling questions about oversight of third-party youth programs that use UC Berkeley's residential facilities: university officials confirmed the camp was operated by an outside organization but refused to name it, saying only that the program has "concluded." Parents of other children who attended are left without any public information about the program that employed the accused man.

Quaylin Tyrell Wesley appeared in Alameda County Superior Court Wednesday for arraignment, one of the more immediate legal milestones in a case that began in the predawn hours of June 14, when Wesley allegedly crept into a dorm room where two young girls were sleeping.

According to a University of California Police Department statement filed in Alameda County Superior Court and reported by Berkeleyside, Wesley entered the room sometime before 2 a.m. and groped the 11-year-old with his hands and mouth. The girl, fearing what he "would do if he knew she was awake," pretended to be asleep, according to the court statement. Wesley fled when her roommate stirred on the adjacent bed.

He returned minutes later and sexually assaulted the girl a second time, again fleeing when the roommate moved, according to police. After he left, the girl tried to wake her roommate and, when she couldn't, ran to a bathroom and then found another camper and a counselor to report what had happened. Camp counselors evacuated the children to a nearby room and blocked the door before calling UCPD.

Officers arrived to find Wesley gone. He was arrested approximately 12 hours later, shortly after 2 p.m. that same Saturday, and has been held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin ever since. On Tuesday, the Alameda County District Attorney's Office formally charged Wesley with two counts of burglary and six counts of lewd acts on a child — all felonies.

The program nobody will name

Beyond the charges against Wesley lies a significant accountability gap: UC Berkeley will not publicly identify the third-party camp that employed him as a counselor and placed him in the dorms alongside children.

"The third-party program that was involved has concluded its program at UC Berkeley," university spokesperson Janet Gilmore told Berkeleyside in an emailed statement. When asked whether the program had ended permanently or merely concluded its current session, Gilmore declined to elaborate.

Gilmore explained that Berkeley was withholding the camp's identity "because the matter involves a minor who is a sexual assault victim, in order to protect their identity, and because this is an ongoing police matter." But critics could reasonably argue the two rationales are in tension: a child victim's identity does not hinge on which organization ran the camp, and parents of other children who may have attended have no way to know whether their own kids had contact with Wesley.

The university's stance also leaves open basic questions: How many children were enrolled in the program? What vetting, if any, did the camp require of its counselors? What supervision was in place overnight, given that a counselor was apparently able to enter campers' dorm rooms in the early morning hours undetected?

UC Berkeley routinely leases its dormitory facilities to outside programs during the summer, a common practice at major research universities. Those arrangements typically include the use of residential halls and campus dining — along with whatever overnight supervision protocols exist, or don't, between the university and the contracting organization.

Wesley's arraignment Wednesday marks the beginning of formal criminal proceedings. He faces a maximum of years in state prison if convicted on all counts.