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.
Termination Reason: Job abandonment.
You beat me to it. Amazing silence from the "where were the teachers like that when I was ____ years old crowd".
Hypocrites.
Not in a world with the NEA. :-(
here opinion? should have that second cup of coffee before I touch the keyboard. Meant to say: her opinion.
If I wasn't married, I would inquire about her.
You don't want to give it the chance though.
Perhaps it's because the sewage seems to filter down to the bottom.
I know you weren't insulting all of us. Believe it or not, the vast majority of Floridians are decent. Cocoa Beach/Canaveral/Merritt Island is full of retired military and NASA people. It's not a bad area. Now south of there (Broward/Palm Beach/Miami) you could just saw right off and we wouldn't even miss it!
We're sick of it, too!
Fire - as in douse with gasoline and ignite it?
People, just look at him! The teacher is HUGE...and even if he were not so physically overpowering, pedophiles are experts at choosing targets they can intimidate and control. Shame and fear are powerful silencers. Is it any wonder a boy would endured this exploitation alone, when even people who should know better wonder why he didn't say something sooner?
Blame the criminal, not the child.
SOrry. Something smells there (besides the hippo who did this) ( sorry hippos of the world)
Something isn't right here.
Bullet proof vest huh. Is this things head exposed?
Silverado!
I agree, put the animal out of OUR misery.
Surely you aren't suggesting that a thirteen year-old is capable of consent?
I really think this is common practice for male homosexuals. I lived in the Bay Area of San Franfreako back in the 60s. There was an older homosexual guy, about 16, that would come to our junior high school and would frequently bring porno, and was caught masturbating in the bathroom in front of two boys by a teacher. Back then, he was jailed and never seen again at the school. Now he would be exalted for his alternative lifestyle and protected by the ACLU and NAMBLA.
360 pounds is too heavy to hang, the head just rips right off, makes one Hell of a mess.
The boy is probably like Elizabeth Smart.
He had a secret fantasy for a relationship with a disgusting older man. (/sarc)
You can't say that. Not all gays are pedophiles. And not all pedophiles are gays. And at thirteen, this fellow was more like a plain old nasty buggerer, like the priests. Not all teachers sod their charges, even in Fl. You have to understand, he has issues... he has an eating disorder that he can only control by having sex with early adolescents. Give him a second chance. Aren't we a society that believes in second chances? Let him apologize. Besides, it's beautiful... it's charming. Don't you do it?
Shoot him in the head.
both, the little one first, a day or two before the other
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