6 P.M. UPDATE: Former JHS Band volunteer charged in sexual misconduct with student » News and Tribune
6 P.M. UPDATE: Former JHS Band volunteer charged in sexual misconduct with student
Police: 21-year-old instructor had relationship with girl, 14.
JEFFERSONVILLE — A former volunteer band instructor at Jeffersonville High School is wanted by police on allegations he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old female student and band member when he was assisting the band.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of William O. Mackle, 21, Webster Boulevard in Jeffersonville. Mackle has been charged in a Clark County court with sexual misconduct with a minor, a class C felony. He remained at-large as of press time.
Although he helped the band at the time of the incident with the minor, he is no longer a band volunteer at JHS has since been banned from all school property, according to a statement released today by Greater Clark County Schools.
“Greater Clark immediately dismissed Mr. Mackle from his volunteers duties when the inappropriate conduct was first reported,” according to an emailed statement from Erin Bojorquez, supervisor of communications for Greater Clark County Schools.
According to the charge issued by the Office of the Clark County Prosecutor, the alleged crime involves “fondling or touching, of either the child or of [Mackle], with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desire of the either the child or of [Mackle].”
Jeffersonville police began investigating the sexual interaction between Mackle and the girl, a freshman, after the child’s mother came to JHS on Sept. 6 and disclosed her suspicions of an inappropriate relationship between her daughter and Mackle to the school’s assistant principal, Tim LaGrange, according to a probable-cause affidavit. A Jeffersonville Police Department officer working at the school as a school resource officer was called to LaGrange’s office about 9:30 a.m. that day to join the meeting. The officer reported the mother discovered text messages on her child’s iPad the night before that led her suspecting that her daughter was having a sexual relationship with Mackle.
Two days earlier, the girl had called her mother from band practice and said that a friend was going to give her a ride home. Later in the day, the mother saw her daughter get out of a vehicle parked a few houses down from the home, which made the mother disconcerted. She believed, at the time of the meeting in LaGrange’s office, that it was Mackle who dropped off her daughter.
The school resource officer handed the case over to a JPD investigator who obtained an iPad and iPhone from the child’s mother that had been used by her daughter. The investigator also scheduled an interview with the child. The investigator reported the child was “extremely guarded when speaking about [her relationship with Mackle] and confirmed she was in love with him.” The girl also said the sexual nature of the relationship was limited to kissing on one occasion.
Later in the day, the investigator visited Mackle as his home.
6 P.M. UPDATE: Former JHS Band volunteer charged in sexual misconduct with student » News and Tribune
6 P.M. UPDATE: Former JHS Band volunteer charged in sexual misconduct with student
Police: 21-year-old instructor had relationship with girl, 14.
JEFFERSONVILLE — A former volunteer band instructor at Jeffersonville High School is wanted by police on allegations he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old female student and band member when he was assisting the band.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of William O. Mackle, 21, Webster Boulevard in Jeffersonville. Mackle has been charged in a Clark County court with sexual misconduct with a minor, a class C felony. He remained at-large as of press time.
Although he helped the band at the time of the incident with the minor, he is no longer a band volunteer at JHS has since been banned from all school property, according to a statement released today by Greater Clark County Schools.
“Greater Clark immediately dismissed Mr. Mackle from his volunteers duties when the inappropriate conduct was first reported,” according to an emailed statement from Erin Bojorquez, supervisor of communications for Greater Clark County Schools.
According to the charge issued by the Office of the Clark County Prosecutor, the alleged crime involves “fondling or touching, of either the child or of [Mackle], with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desire of the either the child or of [Mackle].”
Jeffersonville police began investigating the sexual interaction between Mack
le and the girl, a freshman, after the child’s mother came to JHS on Sept. 6 and disclosed her suspicions of an inappropriate relationship between her daughter and Mackle to the school’s assistant principal, Tim LaGrange, according to a probable-cause affidavit. A Jeffersonville Police Department officer working at the school as a school resource officer was called to LaGrange’s office about 9:30 a.m. that day to join the meeting. The officer reported the mother discovered text messages on her child’s iPad the night before that led her suspecting that her daughter was having a sexual relationship with Mackle.
Two days earlier, the girl had called her mother from band practice and said that a friend was going to give her a ride home. Later in the day, the mother saw her daughter get out of a vehicle parked a few houses down from the home, which made the mother disconcerted. She believed, at the time of the meeting in LaGrange’s office, that it was Mackle who dropped off her daughter.
The school resource officer handed the case over to a JPD investigator who obtained an iPad and iPhone from the child’s mother that had been used by her daughter. The investigator also scheduled an interview with the child. The investigator reported the child was “extremely guarded when speaking about [her relationship with Mackle] and confirmed she was in love with him.” The girl also said the sexual nature of the relationship was limited to kissing on one occasion.
Later in the day, the investigator visited Mackle as his home.