(11/05/08 - Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Christopher Ben Page, 19, reportedly a substitute teacher and sweeper in Granite School District in Utah has been arrested, jailed and charged with sexually abusing a child.
It is alleged that Sandy, Utah Police found Page in a car with a 13-year-old girl, and both had their shirts off.
It is further alleged that Page told officers that he kissed the girl and that she offered to perform oral sex upon him.
Page was arrested on suspicion of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and is being held without bail in the Salt Lake County jail.
Reportedly Page is a substitute teacher in the school district in which the alleged victim attends school at Churchill Junior High and they had been communicating via text messages.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that a shortage of substitute teachers has forced most local school districts to hire substitutes with only high school diplomas and that substitutes are only required to pass a background check and undergo 4 hours of training before teaching.
11/11/08 - Whoopsy!
KSL TV reports that the Granite School District says that Christopher Page was an “emergency substitute” and is not even qualified to be a substitute teacher.
Supposedly, the district’s regular substitutes are required to have at least 48 semester hours of college.
11/14/08 - Christopher Page Freed
Today a judge ordered Christopher Page released from jail to the supervision of Pre-trial Services, which monitors defendants deemed not to be a risk to flee or re-offend.
Pages’ release was conditioned upon an 8 p.m. curfew, no contact with the victim or anyone under the age of 18, and his not teaching any classes.
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January 6th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I think it was a little extreme to deny bond for 9 days. He is 19 and has no criminal record. people get like $500 bond for assault with a deadly weapon and they’re back on the street the same day. shame on you, judge.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Good grief - it never ceases to amaze me how stupid so many people are! Oral sex at 13 years of age. What are these kids thinking? I can answer that - they don’t think! They are guided by their raging hormones. Students and teachers - if you are having sex with each other- STOP - you WILL get caught!
November 11th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
It doesn’t matter if this guy was a real substitute teacher or not, the girl was 13 years old, not old enough to take her shirt off for him or (****) him no matter if it was her idea or not. Where were her parents and who taught her about oral sex? An older brother or an uncle maybe?
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