Friday, April 25, 2003
|
Friday, April 25, 2003 |
Former teacher pleads guilty to enticing studentBy JOHN
MUNFORD
A note passed between two students in a class at Whitewater Middle School last year led authorities to believe a social studies teacher was having an inappropriate relationship one of his students, according to prosecutors. Further investigation revealed that the teacher, Charles Gregory Farmer, 42, would slip notes to the victim in the slots of her school locker, said Assistant District Attorney Jamie Inagawa. Farmer, who was an eighth-grade Georgia history teacher, pled guilty Monday to one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes. He was sentenced to one year in a detention center followed by a nine-year probation period. Farmer also was ordered to surrender his teaching license and agreed not to teach anywhere in the United States, said Assistant District Attorney Jamie Inagawa. In his notes to the victim, Farmer would communicate with the student about issues relating to class and their relationship, Inagawa confirmed. The victim was 15 at the time the incident occurred, he added. Phone records subpoenaed by the state showed calls between Farmer and the student that lasted as long as three hours, Inagawa said. Prosecutors dropped charges of child molestation and sexual assault as part of a plea bargain agreement, which was approved by the victim's family, Inagawa said. The note which broke the case was confiscated by a teacher at Whitewater who brought it to the attention of an administrator, Inagawa said. Farmer was accused of molesting the victim at a remote area off Bernhard Road in May of last year, according to court documents.
|
||