CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A high school gym teacher is accused of having sex with 5 boys in 5 months. Police say all were members of the Mason High School football team. Authorities began investigating the allegations against Stacy Schuler last month following an anonymous tip. The 32 -year-old has been indicted on 16 counts of sexual battery and three misdemeanor counts of serving alcohol to minors. (February 9, 2011) |
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A high school gym teacher is accused of having sex with 5 boys in 5 months.
Police say all were members of the Mason High School football team.
Authorities began investigating the allegations against Stacy Schuler last month following an anonymous tip.
The 32 -year-old has been indicted on 16 counts of sexual battery and three misdemeanor counts of serving alcohol to minors.
Prosecutors accused Schuler of plying the boys with alcohol before seducing them.
Each of the 16 felony counts carries a potential prison term of one to five years, said Gary Loxley, spokesman for the Warren County prosecutor.
The age of consent in Ohio is 16, but because Schuler was a teacher and the boys were all high school students under 18 even if the teenagers consented, Schuler would still allegedly be in violation of the law, Loxley said.
The school's principal, Mindy McCarty-Stewart, said that none of the alleged incidents occurred on school grounds.
Schuler has been released on $50,000 bail, but she was ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device and banned from contact with minors.
Police say all were members of the Mason High School football team.
Authorities began investigating the allegations against Stacy Schuler last month following an anonymous tip.
The 32 -year-old has been indicted on 16 counts of sexual battery and three misdemeanor counts of serving alcohol to minors.
Prosecutors accused Schuler of plying the boys with alcohol before seducing them.
Each of the 16 felony counts carries a potential prison term of one to five years, said Gary Loxley, spokesman for the Warren County prosecutor.
The age of consent in Ohio is 16, but because Schuler was a teacher and the boys were all high school students under 18 even if the teenagers consented, Schuler would still allegedly be in violation of the law, Loxley said.
The school's principal, Mindy McCarty-Stewart, said that none of the alleged incidents occurred on school grounds.
Schuler has been released on $50,000 bail, but she was ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device and banned from contact with minors.
