Former Parke County teacher charged with child seduction
Tribune-Star staff report Oct 23, 2019
****
A former Rosedale Elementary teacher is charged with child seduction stemming from an alleged lengthy sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male high school student.
Gina N. Richey, 35, of Terre Haute, was arrested on a Vigo County warrant charging two counts of Level 5 child seduction - a child care worker in sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct – according to a news release from Vigo County Sheriff John Plasse.
She was booked into Vigo County Jail at 3:29 p.m. today and released on $25,000 cash bond at 3:52 p.m., according to jail records. She is to appear in Vigo Superior Court 3 at 9 a.m. Thursday.
Richey's arrest stemmed from an investigation that began in Parke County in September. The alleged criminal conduct, however, was determined to have taken place in Vigo County, and Parke County authorities turned the investigation over to Vigo County authorities.
The charges allege Richey was having a sexual relationship with a student from Riverton Parke High School and that the relationship had been going on for some time, Sheriff Plasse said.
The Southwest Parke School Corp. had earlier announced a teacher had resigned and a teaching assistant had been terminated during the investigation. The assistant was terminated for reportedly failing to report knowledge of the intimate teacher-student relationship.
Parke County Sheriff Justin Cole has said his office received a report Sept. 30 from the Department of Child Services alleging an intimate relationship between a licensed teacher in the Southwest Parke district with a student from another school within the district.
The school corporation was notified the same day, conducted its own investigation and fully cooperated with the criminal investigation, Sheriff Cole said. The teacher resigned Oct. 3.
Cole, at the time, said the 35-year-old female teacher was alleged to have had a lengthy sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student.
Code:
Content, Pictures and Download links visible to registered users only.
REGISTER NOW to access all areas that are invisible to non-members.