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# Oklahoma Principal Hired Her Son to Coach Girls Despite Rape Expulsion
- URL: https://guerrilla.news/oklahoma-principal-hired-her-son-to-coach-girls-despite-rape-expulsion/
- Published: 2026-05-18T16:00:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T03:27:40.000Z
- Description: A Vian Schools principal allegedly hired her own son to coach girls despite university records tied to rape allegations. Then new student complaints surfaced. What the police chief admitted on camera raises more questions than answers.
- Author: Ronald E. Durbin II, J.D.
- Tags: #channel-UC_2FGy-X1_bPWd-qtSqUpIQ, Guerrilla News, Police Accountability, Government Transparency, Open Records, Oklahoma, Civil Rights

We walked into Vian High School looking for one woman: Principal Kerrie Jo Willis. Her husband is the school's athletic director. Together, according to public records we obtained, they hired their own son, Garrett Willis, to coach girls volleyball and wrestling, despite records showing he had been expelled from Northeastern State University following a conduct proceeding tied to rape allegations. We wanted to know why he still had a job. We did not expect what happened when we tried to find out.

What followed was a records request that should have taken minutes and instead turned into a standoff involving a staff member, a school resource officer, and eventually the town's police chief. Along the way, we heard new allegations, ones involving current students at Vian Schools, that suggest this was not just about a hire made years ago. Here is what we can tell you, and what you need to see for yourself.

## A Principal, an Athletic Director, and Their Son the Coach

Kerrie Jo Willis runs the building. Her husband oversees athletics. Their son coached teenage girls in two sports. That alone raises obvious questions about oversight and conflict of interest in a small district where the people responsible for hiring and supervising a coach share his last name and his childhood home.

But the deeper question is what they knew, and when. We came prepared with documentation connected to Garrett Willis's time at Northeastern State University, records tied to serious allegations and an expulsion. We are not publishing the full contents here. The video does.

## The Records Nobody Wanted To Talk About

When we asked staff directly whether they knew about Willis's history before hiring him, the answers we got were evasive at best. One staff member tried to physically insert himself between us and the front desk. A school resource officer was called. At no point did anyone deny that the records existed.

What they disputed, instead, was our tone, our word choice, and our right to be there asking. Watch how quickly the conversation shifts from "did you know" to "how dare you say that word in a school." That shift tells its own story.

## New Allegations Surface, and the Chief Confirms More Than He Means To

During our visit, Police Chief Harkins mentioned something in passing that stopped us cold: an incident involving a pencil, alleged inappropriate touching, and a cell phone, all tied to current students and current allegations against Willis. He also confirmed Willis is a tribal member, which raises jurisdictional questions about who is actually supposed to investigate.

Then came the part that matters most. When we asked whether a formal report had been sent to tribal marshals, the chief's answer was not a clear yes. It involved words like "redirected" and admissions about being off duty when the timeline mattered most. We are not going to summarize the rest of that exchange here. You need to hear him say it in his own words.

## Why We Didn't Walk Into That School Board Meeting

There is a reason we chose not to physically attend the school board meeting where this all came to a head, and it is not because we lost interest. The decision involved information about the environment we were walking into that night, information we lay out in full in the video. It is the kind of detail that changes how you understand everything that came before it.

## The Resignation That Doesn't Close the Case

Garrett Willis has since resigned from Vian Schools. If you assume that means accountability has been served, sit with this: the people who allegedly hired him despite knowing his history are still employed there. The people who allegedly minimized new complaints from students are still in those buildings today.

A resignation is not a resolution. It is a pause button on a story about who protected a district's most vulnerable kids, and who protected a job title instead. What the full video shows about who knew, who covered, and who is still standing behind that front desk is the part we are not going to spell out in text.

Garrett Willis has not been convicted of a crime related to the allegations discussed here. Every claim in this story is drawn from public records, official statements, or documented interactions captured on camera.

*If you believe your local school district, police department, or government office is protecting the wrong people, watch the full investigation, and share it with someone who still believes accountability happens on its own.*