(07/17/08 - Initial BBT Report)
Carrie Alice Denbow, 32, a “student assistance provider” at the Hill Center Academy in Lansing, Michigan has been arrested and charged with having sexual contact with one of her students.
Denbow was arraigned today on 7 counts of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree on allegations that she had sexual contact with a male student from January 2006 to December 2007 at which time the student was between 13 and 15-years-old. Denbow is also charged with one misdemeanor count of domestic assault.
Following her arrest Denbow was released on $25,000 personal recognizance bond. While free on bond Denbow is not allowed to have any contact with a child under the age of 18 and she is not to be within 500 feet of an alleged victim
Denbow is scheduled to be back in court on July 25th.
Denbow has been on paid administrative leave from the school since December of last year.
The alleged victim, a ward of the state, is reportedly still enrolled at the Hill Center.
09/04/08 - Denbow Bound Over For Trial
Carrie Denbow, charged with seven counts of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, plus a misdemeanor domestic assault charge, has been bound over for trial on all but one of the counts.
The alleged victim testified in the hearing saying he was only 15-years-old when he and Debow were having sex several times a week. He testified that “she picked me up in her Sebring and we got in the back, took off all our clothes and had sex”. The witness testified in great detail about sexual encounters in Denbow’s Hill Center office, on the MSU campus and in a Motel 6 in Delta Township, where he says they drank alcohol she bought them and smoked a joint.
Another witness, now 19-years-old, testified of seeing Denbow perform sex acts upon the alleged victim.
References:
Accused Teacher in Court (09/04/08)
Student Testifies About Sexual Relationship With School Counselor (09/04/08)
Hill Center employee charged in sex case (07/18/08)
Lansing school employee charged with criminal sexual conduct (07/17/08)
Lansing School Employee Arrested on Sex Charges (07/17/08)
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October 25th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Ms. Denbow worked as a child and adolescent therapsit at Meridian Professional Psychological Consultants in East Lansing where she met alone with children and teens.
While I presume she is inocent until proven otherwise, I am troubled that as a psycholoigist at Meridain, no action was taken to investigate if any of the children she met with were abused. The clinic director’s only statement to me was, “We dodged a bullet; it didn’t come out in the press that she worked here.”
The clinic should have taken steps to discover if children seen alone by Ms. Denbow were abused. But they were more interested in their image and profits than the welfare of their patients.
I resigned over this and other ethical failures at Meridaian and have accepted a position with the VA where I will work with men and women returning from Iraq and Afganistan.
I strongly advise the public not to trust their children to this clinic.
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September 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Carrie is so innocent. The boy, who has no credibility whatsover just had his second child at 18, and is now in jail. The two witnesses stories do not coincide. I hope justice is served and that boy goes to prison for false accusations.
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July 18th, 2008 at 9:22 am
When you’re 15, you can f***!