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Teacher admits molesting girls
Teacher pleads guilty to molesting young house guests
Date published: 10/16/2008
BY KEITH EPPS
A popular Manassas teacher admitted yesterday that he molested three young girls at his Stafford County home.
Ted Thomas Johnson, 48, pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual battery and two counts of attempted custodial indecent liberties with a child. Three other charges were dropped.
Johnson, a longtime band director at Osbourn High School and a teacher at a middle school, will be sentenced in Stafford Circuit Court on Dec. 15.
All three girls were either 12 or 13. None were students of his.
According to prosecutor Michael Hardiman, the case against Johnson began in February when a 13-year-old girl accused him of improperly touching her while she was spending the night at his home.
Johnson is married and has four teenage children.
According to Hardiman, the girl said she woke up at 6 a.m. Feb. 18 to find Johnson's hand on her buttocks.
The girl immediately told Johnson's daughter what had happened and told his wife that she wanted to go home.
The girl was taken home, and her parents called the Sheriff's Office.
After Johnson was arrested, two other girls came forward and said they were similarly molested.
One girl said she was molested twice in June and July of last year. She told her parents, but those incidents were not reported to the police until after the arrest.
The third girl said her incident occurred in September. She woke up to find Johnson tugging on her underwear.
Hardiman said Johnson had ordered his daughter to go to her own bed prior to the attack.
Johnson had been free on bond but went to jail after Judge J. Martin Bass rejected defense attorney Joseph Brown's request to allow him to remain free on bond pending sentencing.
Hardiman said Johnson had a misdemeanor sexual assault conviction in Michigan in 1982.
He has been suspended from his teaching duties pending the outcome of this case.
Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
Email: kepps@freelancestar.com
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Date published: 10/16/2008
Most recent reader comments:
No Second Chances!
(posted by
swood
, Oct. 17, 2008 10:30 am)
I attended Stafford Senior High (graduate '97) and he looks extremely familiar to me.
Again, it disgusts me that creeps like this guy will only do a few years in prison just to be let out to do the same thing to another young child....a child! Our judicial system is wack. If they do let him out after prison he should have to have a sign in his yard reading 'I'm a pedaphile' and a tatoo across his forehead stating the same thing.
I was his Student
(posted by
Corennorui
, Oct. 17, 2008 10:26 am)
I was his Student in Manassas City. From 7th grade to my Senior year, I was very bothered by this, we went on school trips with him without our parents. He was put in a very trusted place, and although as far as I know nothing happened, it's still very disturbing to know that someone who was convicted of a sexual offense taught us, I wouldn't want someone like that teaching my children.
This man lived in Stafford County...
(posted by
mamaz13
, Oct. 16, 2008 10:36 pm)
But he taught in Manassas. Please let us not further disparage Stafford County by accusing them of hiring a pedophile.
my bad school supporter!
(posted by
upsetmom2007
, Oct. 16, 2008 1:30 pm)
i m not putting ALL teachers in that catagory... I wouldnt do that.. But why the hell would they let him teach again? i mean maybe the parents didnt know he was a molester, but oh let me shut up.. bye
No Second Chances!
(posted by
swood
, Oct. 16, 2008 1:06 pm)
Crimes against children are THE MOST heinous crimes and should be punished the most severely!! This guy had a sexual assault conviction in1982 & was suspended from teaching. If so, why was he walking the streets much less teaching YOUNG children. As a citizen, I would be happy to pay higher taxes to keep people like this behind bars for LIFE. Yes, LIFE! They are unable to change therefore should not be given second & third chances to commit these HEINOUS crimes.
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