EXCLUSIVE: Victim’s Father Reacts To Teacher Charged With Inappropriate Behavior
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Former Teacher Charged In Anderson
Former Teacher Charged In AndersonPublished: August 14, 2009
A former Palmetto Middle School teacher turned himself into the Anderson County Detention Center Friday, charged with 6 counts of contributing to the deliquency of a minor. He was released from jail on $30,000 bond Friday night.
37 year old Steven Chad Vickery was under investigation by Williamston Police and SLED, after a parent filed a report that he was involved in inappropriate activities with students, between the ages of 13 and 14.
The police report states Vickery exposed himself to students, while playing games with the students that involved children pulling down their pants to be hit with balls, on the butt and genitals.
Investigators say the acts took place between October of 2008 and May of 2009.
Vickery resigned from Palmetto Middle School two days after the report was filed.
He has been ordered not to make contact with the alleged victims. He also faces up to 3 years in jail for each charge.
Friday night, NewsChannel 7 spoke exclusively with the father of one of the children involved. We aren’t naming him, to protect the identity of his child.
He told us, “You don’t know what his motive is—he’s a grown man—you release your kids to these types of people—-you wanna be able to trust em.“
He continued, “My thing is—where is he gonna be teaching at next year? I just don’t want him around kids.“ “I don’t want to hurt this guy—I just don’t want him to be around kids—so he can hurt a kid.“
It was another parent who came forward to police that initiated the investigation.
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felix and deb: Every profession has crooks in it. It seems that the teaching profession is one of only a few professions that gets the bad publicity when something bad happens. I am not upholding what this man did, but I know that as a whole, the teachers we send our kids to would do anything for them. In many cases, its these people who “rescue” some of our young ones. Without teachers, some of these children would have no consistent person in their lives to trust and to know who will always love them. Just because one idiot in the profession does something stupid does not justify talking down about the whole profession.
I think you nailed it AlBrown.
An upstanding wonderful Christian man would not tell children to pull down their pants so he could play games on their behinds and genitals and expose himself to them. He is a perverted sex offender and should be labeled as such and sent to prison. His kind must be kept away from our children.
Please do not judge. The whole truth is not out. I know this man to be an upstanding, wonderful, Christian man who would not hurt a child in anyway. True he should have stopped the kids’ actions and he admitted to what he did. Nothing more went on and for people to jump to conclusions and say otherwise is sick! I stand behind, no in front of Mr. Vickery!!! The Lord will prevail in all of this.
And yet, the teaching profession is still regarded as almost holy by most.
It is so sick that we cannot trust the teacher’s in our school’s these days. At one time they were people we could look up to and trust. It’s not the world that has gone bad, it’s the people in it.
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