Secondary school teacher granted bail on sexual assault accusation

Arrested for allegedly sexually molesting a 14-year-old male student, a senior teacher attached to a second school along the East Coast Demerara corridor has been released on station bail.
Police have not issued a report on the matter since the incident allegedly occurred, and all efforts to contact the Regional Commander on the issue have proved futile. However, sources have told this publication that the teacher had been detained in relation to the allegation, but was later released from custody.
Guyana Times has been informed that the lad attends after-school classes that are hosted by the teacher. It is alleged that, one afternoon after classes, the teacher offered to drop the child home, and that was when he allegedly made his sexual advances on the teen.
This student is alleging that he and the teacher had had a scuffle in the car after the teacher had continued to touch him inappropriately, but he had eventually managed to get the teacher to cease his advances.
However, upon reaching home, the teen had reportedly related everything to his parents, who reported same to the principal of the school.
They were reportedly told that the teacher was sent on administrative leave in order to facilitate an investigation. However, the lad’s parents have grown frustrated at the slow pace of the investigation, and have been enraged to learn that there has allegedly been an attempt to transfer the teacher and cover up the matter. The lad’s parents have thus gone public with the issue, and an official Police report was made, leading to the school teacher being arrested.
It has been alleged that after the allegations went public, several other complaints of this nature were lodged against this teacher, thus resulting in several probes being started.