Timothy Bowland
Posted by: Webmaster in Charges Dismissed, Coaches, High Schools, ME-FV, Minnesota, Social Studies
(1/21/08 - Initial BBT Report)
Timothy Alan Bowland, 39, a social studies teacher and wrestling coach at Rush City High School in Rush City, Minnesota has been arrested on allegations of the sexual assault of a 17-year-old female student.
It is alleged that Bowland sexually touched the girl and had previously asked her about sex and attempted to touch her breast.
Bowland is charged with third-degree criminal sexual assault.
Bail for Bowland was at $50,000 and conditioned upon him having no contact with the alleged victim.
His next court date is currently set for April 1.
07/28/08 - All Charges Dropped
The Chisago County Attorney’s Office says it has dropped all charges against Timothy Bowland.
The County Attorney’s action was reportedly due to not enough evidence to move the case forward.
See the excellent “Post Review” report below for full details and reactions from various principals in this case.
References:
Charges dropped against RC teacher (07/28/08)
Assault charges dropped against Rush City teacher (07/28/08)
RC teacher arrested on assault charges (1/22/08)
Rush City teacher is charged with sexual assault of student (1/20/08)
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November 26th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
He is a sick man and one day justice will be served and he will get what he deserves he knows exactly how munipulate his female students he is a sick bastard that should be in jail….if he goes unpunished here on earth God will be sure to take care if it
July 28th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
The charges have been dropped because “details came to light recently that were considered unfavorable to the case”. Finally, this nightmare comes to an end for the Bowland family.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
He will keep doing it and eventually he will get what he deserves.
Someone like him won’t quite his preverted ways.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
The ethical response would be to remove this entire page from badbadteacher since all charges have been dropped. If this an ethical site, that is.
http://ecmpostreview.com/content/view/1087/1/
http://kstp.com/article/stories/S526163.shtml?cat=1
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Thanks for informing us of the outcome of this case, we have updated our coverage accordingly.
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In regard to taking the page on the case down, that would be the least ethical thing we could do and here’s why:
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Search engines.
A dozen or so big search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and such and dozens upon dozens of “also ran search engines” have indexed the page on badbadteacher.com. If we take the page down now those archived copies of the original page will remain in their search index and be presented as search results from now on, basically forever.
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By maintaining the coverage and updating it to reflect the charges were dismissed, the defendant found not guilty or the case overturned on appeal as applicable we present an accurate account and coverage of the case and archived copies of our coverage will reflect the actual outcome of the case.
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So which is more ethical, keeping the page up while indicating the charges were dropped or having Google and others display an archived copy of our original page indicating he is charged with a sex crime?
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By the way, we will *ALWAYS* take down our coverage of a case where charges are dismissed, the defendant found not guilty or the case thrown out on appeal *IF* the individual whose case we covered asks us to do so. Of those we have heard from, everyone has indicated they would prefer the outcome of the case remain online. We have yet to hear from the first individual wishing to have coverage of his innocence taken down. If Mr. Bowland wants the page taken down, all he has to do is notify us and if he wishes we do so in spite of the issues expressed above we will do so.
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webmaster@badbadteacher.com
July 28th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I told you months ago it would be dropped, and guess what……….it was today.
Thanks for being part of this fake media that only tries to destroy lives without doing one bit of investigating of your own.
Well done.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
He is going to be a dirty sex offender hopefully sitting in prison WHEN he is proven guilty of being a dirty pervert.
June 15th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I read in the Rush City paper that his attorney wants more time
so the trial date is moved July 14.