Thursday, February 21, 2013
Timothy Vincent Krupica, a fifth grade teacher at Meadow Hall Elementary School, has been charged with sex abuse.
Sex abuse charges were filed against a Rockville elementary school teacher, police reported Thursday, stemming from allegations that he molested two female students. Timothy Vincent Krupica, 30, of Frederick, MD, was arrested Thursday. He was charged with sexually abusing a minor and several sex-offense charges, according to court records accessed online. A bail review hearing was set for 1 p.m. Friday. Krupica is a fifth grade teacher at Meadow Hall Elementary School in Rockville, school officials confirmed. Krupica has worked at the school since 2009. Police said the reported abuse occurred between September 2012 and February 2013. Two 11-year-old girls claimed they were forced to touch the teacher inappropriately inside a classroom, …
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Scott Duane Spear says he was wrongly accused, but 'the damage ... has been done.'
A Julius West Middle School teacher and Richard Montgomery High School coach has resigned his teaching and coaching positions, more than three months after the state dropped charges accusing him of having sex with a 16-year-old former student. In March, the state dropped both of the two fourth-degree sex offense charges against Scott Duane Spear, 47, of Rockville. "The allegations were false and this was a rush to judgment," Spear said in a statement released by his attorney, Steven VanGrack, Wednesday. "But after suffering through the highly publicized pain of being wrongly accused, the damage to my professional reputation has been done." Spear said he decided to resign because “the ordeal has been grueling for me and my family, and we …
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Police say Scott Duane Spear had sex with a 16-year-old who he taught and coached.
A Rockville man who teaches at Julius West Middle School and coaches boys basketball and track at Richard Montgomery High School was arrested Thursday and is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student, county police said in a news release. Scott Duane Spear, 47, of the 1600 block of Auburn Avenue in Rockville, is charged with two counts of fourth-degree sex offense. Police said the department’s Family Crimes Division received information on Friday from an unnamed person who said that a 16-year-old Richard Montgomery student had told the source that she had sex with Spear. Spear, who teaches social studies at Julius West, had been the student’s teacher when she was in eighth grade and had been her track coach since 2009, according to …
Joe Thomas
11:23 pm on Sunday, May 12, 2013
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