Larry Kennedy, 61, a retired math teacher who prior to retirement in 2005 taught at Southside High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas has pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old boy.
The sexual assault occurred in May of this year at a Fort Smith, AR fitness center where Kennedy groped the boy, who reported the incident to an employee of the center who called police.
Kennedy was originally charged with second-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony however the charged was reduced to fourth-degree sexual assault, a Class A misdemeanor on a motion by the prosecution.
Kennedy’s sentence includes being placed on an electronic monitoring system for four months, registering as a sex offender and completing a sex-offender counseling program. Additionally Kennedy also received a one-year suspended jail sentence.
Reference:
Ex-Teacher Enters Plea To Assault
Webmaster’s note: Normally we do not report cases such as this. Mr. Kennedy was not a school employee at the time of his offense. However, owing to the nature of the offense AND the age of the victim AND Kennedy’s retirement within the past two years we decided to publish this post on the possibility that providing this information on-line might encourage parents of former students of Mr. Kennedy to discuss the case with their children and insure Mr. Kennedy’s recent behavior is not a repeat of prior behavior while he was still teaching.
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