Daniel Cliatt
Posted on 04/25/2005 7:03:35 AM PDT by KidGlock
Teacher Charged With Molesting Student Nearly 100 Times
POSTED: 6:47 am EDT April 25, 2005 UPDATED: 8:11 am EDT April 25, 2005
COCOA, Fla. -- Hundreds of students and teachers at Endeavour Elementary School in Brevard County are walking on campus Monday for the first time since learning of disturbing allegations against an instructor.
Cocoa police arrested a veteran teacher over the weekend and charged him with molesting a student nearly 100 times.
Daniel Cliatt, 29, is accused of a crime so heinous, for his first appearance deputies dressed him in a bulletproof vest. Wearing the vest with his hands shackled in front of him, Cliatt appeared before a judge for the first time Sunday, when he answered the judge's questions.
Cliatt is accused of raping a 13-year-old repeatedly after school, at school, every day for months.
Cocoa police say the 29-year-old, 360-pound sixth grade teacher started by showing the boy pornography, then moved to sex acts, almost 100 of them. That didn't stop until, police say, another teacher walked into Cliatt's classroom Friday after school.
"At first, she walked in and didn't know what she was seeing. But she ran out and grabbed a supervisor," explained Detective Barbara Matthews, Cocoa Police Department.
Cliatt has been a teacher at Endeavour Elementary School for five years and he's worked there for 10. The school district is already planning a termination hearing.
"We have been very, very cooperative. We've spent a lot of time with the Cocoa Police Department in order to assist them in this investigation," said Sara Stern, Brevard County School District.
Cliatt is a 2000 graduate of Rollins College. He's been at Endeavour Elementary School for 10 years, first as a teacher's assistant, then as a second grade teacher. He most recently taught the sixth grade. Cliatt was in charge of 20 students.
According to the Brevard County School District, Cliatt passed every FBI and FDLE background check.
Daniel Cliatt
Man. Florida just sucks. :/
They need to have a hearing? They can't just out right fire him?
If teachers were allowed to marry, this would never happen.
OXENinFLA wrote:
The school district is already planning a termination hearing.
They need to have a hearing? They can't just out right fire him?
--> Fire him? it's beyond firing to me....
Hey, Mon! NEA says he's got RIGHTS......LOL.....
Compare this response with the Mifflin High School response in Columbus.
YOu beat me to it!
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Also, if I were the officer in charge of his bullet proof vest, I would make sure that I accidentally forgot to put the Kevlar plates in.
Whatta swamp. Florida needs quarantined. Right now.
After the hearing of course.
The question should be, why did this 6th grade boy say nothing to anyone about this ? As bad as this scumbag's actions are, you have to ask, why did the boy not complain or the parent(s) notice the boy coming home later than most kids ? Was this kid so badly intmidated or brainwashed that he just put up with it ?
"Fire" maybe too kind. But, it is Florida after all. The year '05 seems to have opened some kinda Pandora's Box...
I'd like to see him fired upon.
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