NOT GUILTY!
Posted on 07/31/2009 8:25:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
COVINGTON, Ky. -- Nicole Howell said she was fired from her dream job as an English teacher at Dayton High School after rumors circulated about an alleged improper relationship.
"Every time I think it's going to end because someone's going to step up and see I didn't do anything wrong, they continue it," said the 26-year-old Howell.
Howell said she told the principal about the rumors after she heard them.
"I told him then and there, I've never had sex with this student," Howell said. "I have never seen him. I have never even seen him off campus."
The 16-year-old football player did not attend any class Howell taught, and authorities allege the sexual contact took place in Covington, where Howell lives.
Howell said she went to the police station to take a polygraph test, but instead was arrested, and within days she was suspended and fired.
"There's not DNA, there's no pictures, there's not video, there's nothing," she said.
Her attorneys, Kris Nevels and Eric Deters, said Howell plans to file a civil suit against the school district, Dayton police and the alleged victim.
"I've done everything I can in my power to show my innocence, and yet here I am today," Howell said. "I'm still being prosecuted for something I didn't do, for something I didn't do with no evidence to prosecute me on."
Her next court date is set for Sept. 28.
NOT GUILTY!
Innocent of all charges, Your Honor!
A true injustice...
Too bad she isn’t gay. This wouldn’t even be a story.
yup - even if she did - NOT GUILTY!
Terrible!
The New England Witch prosecutions rise again.
If she is not guilty then she needs to sue for slander.
"There's not DNA, there's no pictures, there's not video, there's nothing," she said.
Frat boy sniggers add nothing useful. You think the suffering of other people is raw material for arrested development japes? Pathetic.
A couple of girls in Akron pulled this same stunt on a teacher they didn’t like. It was months before they admitted that they had lied.
Because we all know that "journalists" never misquote anyone are mangle grammar in their stories.
Wishful thinking on the part of students and teachers alike.
Well that’s where we are in our republic. All someone has to do is accuse someone (who isn’t in a protected group) and its off to the gulag for you.
If I had a English teecher that lookd like that when I was in grammer skool, I might be better at readin’ and ritin’!
Guilty....of grammatical errors. She’s an English teacher? What’s up with her inability to speak in grammatically correct sentences then?
Innocent !
ABSOLUTELY NOT GUILTY!!!
An accusation is not a conviction. She should sue everything that moves until she gets her job back and a nice chunk of change.
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