Posted on 08/11/2006 7:00:15 PM PDT by ncountylee
BEAUMONT, Texas -- A high school teacher's aide and a former student have been indicted in connection with what officials describe as a suspected sex ring that might have been operating at the school in 2001.
Ozen High School teacher's aide Tommy Floyd Granger, 42, was indicted Thursday by a Jefferson County Grand jury on charges of indecency with a child. Former student Byron Aaron Bell, 25, is accused of sexual assault.
According to court records, Granger is accused of inappropriately touching a 14-year-old female student on Dec. 31, 2001, at a campus building.
Also during that incident, the same female student, a freshman at the time, told investigators she was sexually assaulted by Bell, a former Ozen High School football player.
The victim says the incident was part of an organized effort in which younger girls were provided to senior football players for sex, said Beaumont Police Detective John Boles.
The victim and other students Boles has interviewed mentioned a group that called itself the 3K.
Boles said it was "a group of guys who sought to have oral sex with younger girls."
Bell and Granger had not been arrested by Beaumont police as of Friday afternoon.
Neither Granger nor Bell had listed phone numbers.
If convicted, each man faces up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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If guilty, 20 years in prison is not enough.
If these were women teachers, they'd get 20 days of community service, I'm sure....
Yeah...and that is NOT right.
But it's politically correct and happens all the time today, as women get away with murder, too. Just look at the outcome of the baby-murderer in Texas who claimed she was in a bad mood and that got her off the hook....
If these were Priests, they NEVER would allow them on public school property...
Doesnt this school have a cheerleading team? They do it to the team for free
And yet another reason to homeschool.
The ACLU will get them off.
If they had known that in the first place, this whole thing could have been avoided.
In before the ban.
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