Worcester Teach Guilty of Student Assault

After talking in class about ethics, a story in the Worcester Telegram reported a former teacher at a Worcester charter school is sentenced to jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting an 8 year old student in 2002. I was surprised that this incident happened 8 years ago, and I wonder if the children did not speak up right away or if it just took the court system a long time to place this case in front of a judge. As conditions of the teachers probation he was ordered to have no contact with the victim or her family and no unsupervised contact with children under 16. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender, to obtain sex offender counseling and to submit to GPS monitoring. The teacher still has other cases pending on three additional counts of indecent assault and battery on a child involving three other alleged victims who were students of his at the school. It's scary to think of teachers and other professions surrounded by young children, who are suppose to be Mandated Reporters looking out for signs and speaking up about any known or suspected child abuse being the ones who are taking advantage of this vulnerable population.