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OR - Oregon legislators work on school sex-abuse laws

View the article here 03/02/2009 By Bill Graves, The Oregonian The seventh-grade girls in Mark Leichty's science class at North Albany Middle School said he knelt by their desks, put his arm around their shoulders and let his hand slip down near or on their breasts. Leichty said he knelt beside the girls to talk to them privately and rested his arm on the back of their seats. He may have inadvertently touched their shoulders, he said, but he didn't touch their breasts. During a five-day hearing two years ago, the case boiled down to the teacher's word against his students. A wrong decision would either unfairly ruin a man's career or expose teenage girls to a sex offender at school. Leichty's case illustrates what's at stake as legislators craft new laws to try to improve school defenses against educators who sexually abuse children...continue to full post

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