http://www.theeagle.com/region/localregional/060403molestation.php
H.S. coach remains jailed for indecency with students06/04/2003
BRYAN, Texas - A former Livingston High School athletic trainer remained jailed Wednesday, accused of indecency with two male students during weekend trips to Bryan in 2001, authorities said.
Shannon "Doc" Wheat, 39, was arrested Tuesday after he admitted to several school officials and parents that the accusations against him were true, according to court documents obtained by The Bryan-College Station Eagle.
Wheat resigned in March after working at the school since 1988, school officials said.
During the trips, the victims told authorities they would stay in a hotel room with Wheat, who took the students to Bryan to work on his grandmother's farm, the newspaper reported Wednesday.
The school system said in a prepared statement released by district official Shelly Hullihen that it was "deeply saddened" by the events which led to Wheat's arrest.
"Although the alleged incidents did not occur during school functions, the school district has taken every precaution to ensure that students affected by the events have been given the opportunity for counseling and the proper information to contact law enforcement," the statement said.
Brazos County Jail officials said Wheat's bond has been set at $ 500,000 and he faces two charges of indecency with a child and one charge of aggravated sexual assault.
One of the two boys Wheat is accused of having inappropriate contact with told police he took 30 trips with Wheat to Bryan beginning in the summer of 2001. Police said the boy told them Wheat would give him pills to help him sleep and he would wake up with the teacher cuddling with him, according to the newspaper.
The boy said Wheat touched him inappropriately in 2001, but he didn't report what happened because he didn't want people to think he was gay.
Another boy told police, according to the newspaper, that Wheat touched him in 2001. The then 16-year-old boy told his parents, who confronted Wheat.
When Wheat promised not to do it again and offered to pay for counseling for the boy, his parents opted not to tell authorities, the paper reported.
Livingston school district officials learned of the accusations against Wheat when a third boy contacted the superintendent in March. When confronted, Wheat confessed and resigned from his job, the paper reported.
Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/tsw/stories/060403dntextrainer.870b6a38.html
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