Teacher Steven Mitchell Took Students Across State Lines to Engage in Sex Acts
Steven Mitchell, 32, of Pineville, Arkansas, faces 12 counts involving sexual misconduct with students. He pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he took students across state lines to engage in sexual acts.
Mitchell, an agricultural teacher at Melbourne High School from 2002 to 2004, took seven underage children to Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas. On these trips he either touched them or encouraged them to expose themselves.
Ewwwwwww….
Mitchell pleaded guilty to two sexual assault charges in Arkansas in August 2005. He received five years of probation and had to register as sex offender.
However, taking minors across state lines for sexual purposes (can you say Mann Act and Chuck Berry?) is a federal offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000.
I wonder if he can get 15 years per kid, which would mean 105 years in prison. Sounds right to me.
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May 4th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
disgusting!
February 8th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
All charges but one were thrown out by the time the jury heard the case.
On Feb. 7, 2008, he was acquitted of that charge in a bizarre trial in which the defense attacked the credibilty of the former student in question during prosecution and then moved to rest immediately after being called.
Everyone, including the judge, was buffaloed by that one, but the jury found him innocent — or rather, they found insufficient evidence to support a guilty verdict.
There was joy in Melbourne that day.