David M. Suino
Posted by: Webmaster in Charges Dismissed, Elementary Schools, ME-MV, Wisconsin
David M. Suino, 47, a fifth-grade teacher at Tainter Elementary School, in Rice Lake, Wisconsin was charged Tuesday with one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct, after being arrested and booked the day before on allegations of improperly touching a 10-year-old male student.
Three school employees told police they had seen Suino touching the boy in a manner that witnesses considered “wrong”.
Reportedly one school employee saw Suino holding the boy’s hands, hugging the child, rubbing the student’s hands and the 10-year-old’s bare stomach. Another employee reportedly saw Suino and the same student in the back of Suino’s classroom and that the teacher and the boy were squatting next to each other, and Suino was rubbing the boy’s back both on top of, and then underneath, the child’s shirt.
This same witness said that Suino then put his hand between the child’s legs, but she couldn’t see where it went exactly. The aide also reported that about one week before that incident, she saw the fifth-grade teacher standing close behind the 10-year-old at the blackboard where Suino had one arm on the blackboard and the other on the boy’s back.
A third witness said that that he witnessed Suino with his hand up from the knee area underneath the boy’s shorts.
The boy acknowledged the touching to police but said he does not consider it “bad touching” and indicates that Suino has never touched his privates.
If convicted Suino faces a maximum of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
06/24/08 - Plea Deal and Charges Dismissed
In a normal “plea deal” the accused either pleads “no contest” or “guilty” to some charge(s) in exchange for a lighter sentence, other charges being dropped and so forth.
That is not the case for David M. Suino whose plea deal resulted in the dropping of all charges against him in exchange for Suino agreeing to resign his teaching position with the Rice Lake school district and surrender his state teaching license.
Webmaster’s note:
The surrender of David Suino’s Wisconsin teaching license does not preclude him from seeking a teacher’s license in another state. Since all charges against him were dropped he has no criminal record as a result of this case and obviously no requirement to register as a sex offender.
Reference:
Suspended teacher has charges dismissed (06/24/08)
Staff members allege student ‘touched wrong’ (10/06/07)
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June 24th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Who is this guy’s lawyer? He certainly earned his/her fee on this case!
June 24th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Webmaster, even though all charges were dismissed, since he agreed to a plea deal, he is ineligible to have his arrest record and all info pertaining to this case sealed, meaning that if he tries to teach in another state, the record of all this will be there. I doubt any school district would hire anybody with a record like this. In the end, I think that he will no longer teaching in any state.