Todd Sheerer
Posted by Webmaster in Band/Music, Hall of Shame, High Schools, ME-FV, Pennsylvania
(01/23/08 – Initial BBT Report)
Todd N. Sheerer, 29, a music teacher and band director at Warwick High School in Lititz, Pennsylvania has been arrested and charged on allegations of corruption of minors in multiple jurisdictions. The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor.
Manheim Township police allege that on January 18 that officers caught Sheerer in an SUV in a restaurant parking lot with a 17-year-old female student and that Sheerer’s pants were unbuttoned and his zipper was down. It is alleged that the two were engaged in “intimate and inappropriate contact” when the officers discovered them. Investigators say that the girl was a student at Warwick High School and a member of the school band.
In response to questioning by the officer the girl indicated that she and Sheerer were involved in a long term sexual relationship beginning when the girl was 16-years-old and that the two had repeatedly engaged in sexual activity up to four or five times a week in Sheerer’s vehicle and in a variety of locations over of the course of the relationship.
Sheerer is reportedly married and a father and his wife is the color-guard instructor for the school band. Sheerer has worked at the school for five years and is credited with reviving the school’s marching band winning statewide titles during the past two years.
Sheerer has been initially charged in Manheim and Warwick townships. Additional charges are possible in Manheim and Lititz boroughs and Penn Township.
1/29/08 – More Charges
On Monday, police in Manheim and Lititz boroughs and Penn Township filed charges of corruption of minors against Todd Sheerer on allegations of his engaging in sex acts with the girl inside his SUV at various locations.
It is also being alleged that Sheerer over the course of the past two years instructed the girl on what clothes she should wear and that Sheerer would tell her to “flash” him by pulling up her shirt or skirt while the two were in the band room.
3/03/08 – Bond Revoked
Todd Sheerer’s bond has been revoked and he was jailed after he allegedly purchased a new cellphone and used it to contact the alleged victim. Sheerer was prohibited contact with the girl under the conditions imposed upon his earlier bond. He is now being held of $250,000 cash bond.
05/23/08 – Sheerer Back In Jail, Again
Todd Sheerer is back in jail, yet again.
Sheerer was caught with the female student with whom he allegedly had a two-year sexual relationship. Sheerer is prohibited under his conditions of bail from having contact with the girl .
Sheerer’s latest brush with the law came about when the grandmother of the alleged victim found her and Sheerer together in the woods behind her home. The alleged victim told Lititz Police Detective John Schofield that she had been contacted several times by Sheerer.
Police and the DA’s office went to court to get Sheerer’s $250,000 bond revoked and a warrant for his arrest.
Following his latest arrest, Sheerer was being held in the Lancaster County Prison.
06/03/08 – Bond Amount Increased
Citing Todd Sheerer’s “blatant and knowing disregard for the law” for Sheerer’s second bond violation, a judge has upped Sheerer’s bond amount to $1.25 million cash.
Sheerer was originally released on $25,000 bond.
Following his first alleged bond violation his bond amount was increased to $250,000.
10/11/08 – Guilty Plea
Todd Sheerer has pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors for having a sexual relationship with a female student, beginning when she was 15-years-old.
Sheerer will be sentenced after a background check is completed and submitted to the judge within 60 days.
Lancaster County Judge Margaret C. Miller told Sheerer he faces a maximum of 30 years in prison.
03/03/09 – Sentencing
Todd Sheerer has been sentenced to state prison for a period of from 3 to 9 years.
In sentencing Sheerer, Judge Margaret C. Miller told him that he was “narcissistic and selfish”.
Judge Miller also told Sheerer, “You owed a duty to her — as you did all of your students — to protect her. Instead you used her.”
References:
Teacher jailed 3-9 yrs. in sex scandal (03/03/09)
Ex-band leader pleads guilty (10/11/08)
Sheerer’s bail: $1.25M cash (06/03/08)
Ex-Warwick teacher is back in jail (05/23/08)
Former School Band Instructor Arrested Again (3/02/08)
Former Band Director’s Bail Revoked (2/29/08)
Warwick teacher charged again (1/29/08)
Warwick teacher charged with corruption of minors (1/26/08)
Update: Band Director Charged (1/25/08)
Band Teacher Caught In SUV With Student, Police Say (1/25/08)
Warwick teacher charged (1/25/08)
Police check Warwick teacher (1/23/08)
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Wow! what a predator. In response to a previous post about the victim being a flirt.
That is irrelevant and the saddest excuse. Yet, thinking like that is SO common that it is embarrassing how easily people justify actions behind the seduction excuse. He’s a grown adult man and this is a teenage girl. There are very few situations where you could not get away and get help with this flirtatious seductress.
Pleeease. He loved the power and control.
To piggy back that, he is a GROWN, married, man with children. If you have issues being around girls then get help, or quit your job. You protect the students, your family and yourself by making mature ADULT decisions.
The victim was still a girl and no one (I don’t care how mature you are) especially a young, attractive, vulnerable girl knows what to do with the attention and advances of an older man. You just don’t have the life experience to handle it.
He is a predator and a manipulator. He was an unsafe man for students to be around so shame on everyone who knew and didn’t speak up for her sake no matter how you viewed her. As the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. As a society we need to do a better job speaking up for our children and taking care of the young, vulnerable, and weak instead of throwing them to the wolves to be eaten up. How tragic this is for a girl who should have just been having fun and developing a healthy concept of who is. This will probably follow her for much of her life. It has for me.
My prayers are with her and her family.
Apparently the school administrators found out about this at least a year before they got caught in the parking lot and all the admins did was tell him he needed to leave the blinds up in his office. Lititz is a very hush-hush, sweep it under the rug kind of town that likes to think it’s this All-American paradise.
As for Sheerer’s “victim,” she was more than a bit of a flirt. She sent him love letters. He absolutely should have known better, but it’s somewhat of a two-way street. That being said, the judge is absolutely right – the guy is a total narcissist and a creep.
As a post script, I’m not sure why they removed Troy May’s name, considering he was convicted and went to prison – it’s not libel, it’s fact: He was the softball coach and he went to jail for having a relationship with a student.
i went to warwick. this stuff is very strange. its a small town and everyone knows this stuff is going on, and nothing is ever said to the police. I was in school when (Name Deleted by site moderator) was messing around with i guess i can say it now… (Name Deleted by site moderator) who played both basketball and softball. warwick… breading ground for creeps
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He was the senior drum major when I was a freshman in the Hempfield marching band. Realllllllly creeps me out to see someone my age turn out that way. *shudder*
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just want to say, that i’m not surprised by any of this. i was in the band when mr. sheerer first started, and he always made me feel uncomfortable. in fact, i was even ostracized for my dislike of him. look who was right. he’s a sick man.
Ex-coach to stand trial for sex with teen
Former Warwick girls’ coach waives hearing. More charges are added.
A former Warwick High School coach was ordered to stand trial today on charges he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a teenage girl.
Troy May, 36, of 332 E. Marion St., Lititz, waived his right to a preliminary hearing this morning before District Justice Daniel Garrett on the local charges, as well as additional charges from Dauphin County.
found at: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LC&p_theme=lc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=“Troy%20May”&s_dispstring=Troy%20May%20AND%20date(2004)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2004&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no
The thing with this article is becouse it is the archives, you have to pay to read the rest of the article.
“Sheerer is the second Warwick staff member in recent years to be charged in connection with alleged sexual contact with a Warwick student.
Former girls’ basketball and softball coach Troy R. May was sentenced in 2005 to 8½ to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual assault and other charges stemming from his relationship with a 15-year-old basketball player in 2003.”
This was copied from: http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/215782
That is good enough for us. We just had to have someone point it out. – webmaster
In references to the coach named “Troy”, there was a last name listed previously but site policy required it be deleted as we have zero basis on which to say “Troy” committed a crime. If anyone can provide one or more links by which we might verify such a person was charged with a crime and/or convicted of a crime we can publish the name, otherwise we can not.
in reference to the coach named, Troy in the post that was a basketball coach. do you know the last name? do you know where he went after he left warwick coaching?
That coach’s name was Troy.
He married a former softball player of his to begin with. Then got busted for stuff with a girls basketball player, I believe.
He was my hoops coach when I was in 8th grade (guys). I always thought he was a creep.
probably because he wasn’t a teacher at the district. he was just a coach
Just heard this happened in my old high school and google led me here… here’s Warwick in all of it’s glory. Poking around this site I noticed that there’s no mention of the girl’s basketball coach that got busted for the same thing a few years back so if someone feels like digging, I’m sure it’s out there…