This from the Herald-Leader: KSN&C Backstory:A former Beaumont Junior High School science teacher pleaded not guilty Friday to sodomy and rape charges stemming from allegations by two students in the late 1970s.
Jack Russell Hubbard, 61, appeared in Fayette Circuit Court for his arraignment on four counts of first-degree sodomy and one count of first-degree rape. Former students Thomas "Beau" Goodman III and Carol Lynne Maner made the accusations.
Hubbard, who now lives in Texas, was arrested in July 2007 in Pennsylvania as Maner testified in a civil trial in Lexington against the Fayette County school board. Maner, who accused the school board of ignoring a pattern of alleged sexual abuse against her by several school board employees, won a $3.9 million verdict. An appeal by the board is pending.
A pretrial conference is scheduled Jan. 29 before Judge James D. Ishmael Jr. the same judge who is hearing Petrilli v Silberman. After hearing motions a trial date could be set.
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My name is Liz Parker. I knew Jack Russell Hubbard
when we were children and he was always called, "Jack Russell," NOT "Russ." I don't believe he's guilty. I think too many students use sex as a way to get back at teachers and at adults who try to discipline or reprimand. No wonder young people don''t study to be teachers and no wonder we're losing the teachers we have; nobody assumes the teacher is not guilty; everyone lines up behind the accuser, no matter how bizarre the story. I don't believe Jack Russell Hubbard is guilty.
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