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Teacher in student sex held on bond
(AP)
Updated: 2006-02-26 11:12
A US fifth-grade teacher accused of having sex with her 11-year-old
student was ordered held on $100,000 bond Saturday.
In this booking
photo taken Friday, Feb. 24, 2006, provided by the Laurens, S.C Police
Dept., Wendie A. Schweikert, 36, of Belton, is shown. Schweikert, an
elementary school teacher , was arrested Friday, Feb. 24, 2006, and
charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, Laurens
police said. [AP] |
Prosecutors had wanted Wendie A. Schweikert, 36, jailed without bond, saying
she was a danger to the community and a flight risk.
Schweikert was arrested Friday on two counts of criminal sexual conduct with
a minor after the boy's mother accused the teacher of having sex with him at
school at least twice, said Laurens Police Chief Robin Morse.
The former teacher admitted in a statement to having sex with the boy, Morse
said.
Schweikert, who resigned from her job at E.B. Morse Elementary School on
Friday, did not speak during the hearing, and did not have an attorney. The
boy's mother tried to tell the judge how shaken her son was, but was choked back
by tears.
The boy "wanted his mother to tell the court he was scared," prosecutor Jerry
Peace said. "He is terrified that the defendant will get out on bond."
A man who answered the door at Schweikert's home Saturday would not comment.
Laurens is in northwestern South Carolina.
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