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Former educators
2011-06-15 / Front Page
Two indicted for sex with students
Two school employees accused of sex with teenage students have been indicted by a Grand Jury.
Former Burke County Middle School guidance counselor Heather Hart was arrested in April after Sardis police officers discovered her in a parked car with a 14-year-old student. Hart gave officers a fake name and age.
At the time of her arrest, GBI agents said Hart, an Evans resident who had worked at the school for about four years, allegedly began seeing the Burke County High School freshman more than a year earlier when he was only 13.
Last week, the grand jury found sufficient evidence to indict Hart on two counts of aggravated child molestation, a single count of child molestation, sexual assault against a person enrolled in a school and giving a false name to a law enforcement officer.
The jury also returned indictments in a similar case that broke less than three weeks later. Holly Rachelle Whitfield, a former paraprofessional at River Quest, faces charges of aggravated child molestation, child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes and sexual assault against a person enrolled in school. The charges stem from her alleged relationship with a 15-year-old student who attended the Midville school which serves children with emotional and behavioral problems. The accusations surfaced when Burke County deputies interviewed the victim’s family as part of a burglary investigation in which the boy was arrested. According to the original report, the child’s grandmother said she’d seen Whitfield inside the teenager’s room on multiple occasions. Once, she reported, Whitfield was even retrieved from there by her (Whitfield’s) husband and mother.
At the time, deputies said Whitfield was also accused of having a sexual relationship with a second student who is 18 and over the legal age of consent.
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