A former grade faculty principal in north suburban Zion has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage scholar a decade in the past whereas he was a highschool dean in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Curtiss Tolefree, Jr., who was principal at Beulah Park Elementary School in Zion, allegedly had intercourse with a scholar nearly every day throughout her junior and senior years on the faculty, his dwelling and a lodge, in keeping with a felony grievance filed Friday by the Kenosha County district legal professional’s workplace.
On Monday, Tolefree was positioned on administrative depart by Zion School District 6, district superintendent Keely Roberts wrote in a letter posted on-line.
Tolefree is charged with three counts of intercourse assault of a scholar by faculty employees and two counts of exposing himself, in keeping with the grievance. He is due in Kenosha County courtroom on Jan. 2, or an arrest warrant can be filed, in keeping with the state’s legal professional’s workplace.
In the doc, prosecutors say a feminine scholar of Mary D. Bradford High School was first sexually assaulted by Tolefree in 2008 after she started often assembly him at his dean’s workplace earlier than and after faculty.
In the grievance, she alleges the 2 had intercourse in his workplace “just about every day at school during her junior year.”
The sexual assaults stopped in 2009 when Tolefree left to work at Washington Middle School in Kenosha, prosecutors mentioned.
Tolefree couldn’t be reached for remark.
According to the Lake County News-Sun, Tolefree resigned as principal of Washington Middle School following allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates.
Tolefree was then employed in July 2018 by District 6 School District as principal at Beulah Park Elementary, the News-Sun reported. Tolefree denied the allegations in a press release to the News-Sun.
A spokesperson for District 6 didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.