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A substitute teacher who also worked as a basketball coach in Orland Park has been charged with sexually abusing a student, officials said.
Steven E. Reynolds, 26, of the 600 block of 55th Street in Hinsdale, was charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault of a student at Carl Sandburg High School, according to the DuPage County sheriff's office.
sheriff's office received a call Monday afternoon from the school reporting the alleged sexual abuse of a student. Reynolds was accused of having inappropriate contact with the student on multiple occasions over the last several weeks, officials said.
The victim, 17, reported the abuse to officials at the school.
Reynolds was arrested Monday night and was being held in the DuPage County Jail. He was scheduled to appear in bond court this morning.
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Heather Whitten had been teaching at Williams Intermediate School since January, said Pell City superintendent Bobby Hathcock. Whitten taught at Eden Elementary for three years but took time off this summer and fall to go back to school.
St. Clair County District Attorney Richard Minor said Whitten, 38, was released on $5,000 bond soon after her arrest. Minor said he could not divulge the victim's age or whether the victim was a student at Williams.
Under Alabama state law, second-degree rape occurs when someone 16 or older has sex with someone between the ages of 12 and 16. The suspect must be at least two years older than the victim.
According to the school's website, Whitten lives in Pell City, and is married with three children. She is a 1992 graduate of Pell City High School, with an undergraduate degree in health administration from Auburn in 1997 and a master's in early childhood/elementary education from West Alabama in 2011. That biography was removed from the school's website Monday.
The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office is investigating, Minor said. Efforts to reach officials with the sheriff's office were unsuccessful today.
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wow
**Edit: I would also like to add that as a mother of a young son, this is scary as hell. It happens way too often and probably more that we even know.
fade away...
I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
I'm pretty sure I saw a movie in college with a plot line like this. There wasn't alot of dialogue.
fade away...
I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
I have known a case like that. It happened at a local school here. Porn and everything on the computer, but they suggested that he resign. He is teaching at another school and is very active in church. :?
fade away...
I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
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where have i heard that story before
The announcement came in a 2 p.m. press conference.
Acker was a teacher in three Alabaster schools until his retirement in 2009. This incident occurred in 2009, Chief Curtis Rigney said. A fourth-grade student in his class at Thompson Intermediate School at that time came to the police last week with the allegations, he said.
Acker admitted he was guilty of the allegation, and he said he had molested more than 20 girls during his tenure, according to Rigney.
Acker is being held in the Shelby county Jail on a $225,000 bond.
Acker is the son of Shelby County Commissioner Dan Acker.
In 1993, a grand jury refused to indict the younger Acker on charges that he sexually molested one of his former Thompson Elementary fourth-grade students, who was also his neighbor.
Acker was accused of touching the girl on her breast in 1991.
Ex-Alabaster Teacher Daniel M. Acker Jr. Arrested Arrested And Charged With 3 Counts of Sexual Abuse Ex-Alabaster Teacher Daniel M. Acker Jr. Arrested And Charged With 3 Counts of Sexual Abuse ALABASTER, Alabama -- Alabaster Deputy Chief of Police Curtis Rigney announced the arrest of Daniel M. Acker, Jr. who has been charged with three counts of sexual abuse after a former 4th grade student came forward with the allegation that Acker molested her in a Thompson Intermediate classroom in 2009. (The Birmingham News/Frank Couch) Watch video
He denied any sexual intent and said the encounter was blown out of proportion.
While facing termination at the time over the alleged incident, Acker was named Teacher of the Year at Creek View Elementary and was a candidate for Shelby County Teacher of the Year.
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Shelby County's shame keeps tumbling out. Out of the pen of Daniel Acker Jr. himself.
"I promise I'm not a pervert," the man police now say confessed to being a serial molester wrote in 1991 to the mother of one of his fourth-grade victims. "I just have a strange sense of humor."
HA HA. Ha. ha.
There's nothing funny about Acker, a retired teacher who told police -- according to police -- that he molesting at least 21 little girls. There's nothing at all amusing about him, his humor, or the county that had a chance to stop him, but looked the other way.
I mean, if Joe Paterno was guilty of failing to do enough to stop Penn State's style of abuse, throngs of people in Shelby County are every bit as culpable for failing to stop this.
The school board, principals and parents. Churches, pastors and congregations. They are guilty. As are all those people who knew nothing of the facts of Acker's case, but rallied in his name and bought flapjacks to help him pay his lawyers.
They share the shame. They share the blame.
Yes, Paterno lost his statue, and his legacy, and his place in history. Shelby County has gotten off scot-free. It has lost only its credibility.
In 1993 the Shelby County School Board had the chance to remove Acker from the classroom. Former Superintendent Norma Rogers knew in her gut the fourth grader who claimed Acker touched her breast was telling the truth. She read a Department of Human Resources report that concluded there was "reason to suspect" Acker touched the girl. Rogers recommended the school board fire him.
The school board heard Rogers. But it heard more loudly the preachers and teachers, the character witnesses who thought they knew Acker, but knew nothing of what he did to that child.
The board chose -- unanimously -- to believe those who knew nothing.
At 2:30 in the morning on Feb. 9, 1993, board members Lee Doebler, Susan Bagley, Donna Morris, Cindy Forrester and Steve Martin rejected the motion to fire Acker. They put him back to work in the schools.
The victim of that 1991 incident would leave town in shame. Acker, after playing victim himself, was rewarded as teacher of the year.
And so many more girls would suffer.
It is a community's shame. A community that saw the signs. And looked away.
Doebler, who still serves as president of the school board, said Friday he doesn't know what he would or could have done differently.
"We didn't have sufficient evidence," he said. "Do I look back and say I wish we had done something different? Yes."
But a grand jury had declined to prosecute Acker two weeks before, he said. Acker had tenure, and Rogers' "gut feeling" was not enough to take the man's job.
Doebler can explain it. But he can't defend it.
Because a school board must always err on the side of its students. This one did not. It disregarded the superintendent, DHR, police, the child's mother and -- this is most important -- the child herself.
It sided with the ignorant.
It decided with ignorance.
The grand jury gave the school board an out, but it did not relieve it of responsibility. Because what's right or wrong in a case like this is not about what can be proven in criminal court. It is about what is appropriate.
And Ackers' conduct clearly was not. Acker's words prove that.
On a test paper given in his fourth grade class, Acker had asked this question: "What color is (the victim's) underwear?"
And then -- this is all in the DHR report -- Acker sent home this letter of "explanation" to the mother of the child he molested.
"I thought the last question might need some explanation," he wrote. "(The victim) came to me complaining about some boys trying to look up her dress while we were studying. I kidded her, saying the boys must think I was going to have a question about her underwear since that was the only thing they were studying.
"I promise I'm not a pervert, I just have a strange sense of humor."
Strange is right.
Shelby County laughed with this man when it could have made a difference. It must now live with the shameful truth.
And the consequences.
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This asshole just sounds like a dick fuck off cardinal ...
Where are these predators coming from , i don't know people like this at all unless they are good at hiding what they are all about ...
So who here knows any predators ?
there are so many of them, you probably know at least one. They are very good at hiding it.
As a Boy Scout Volunteer, I gladly submitted to a background check and they have very strict rules that prevent kids being alone with one adult and on camping trips, adults cannot share tents with kids other than their own.
that's a good question....
i personally don't know of anybody convicted of anything....or anybody that has been accused.
Exactly these fuckers are everywhere but me personally i don't think i know any if i did you can be sure i would confront them face to face ....
love the educational background :roll: