A Legacy High School teacher was arrested on allegations of having sexual contact with a student, according to the Clark County School District Police Department.
Sex Crimes
A former Clark County substitute teacher faces seven counts of lewdness with a child under the age of 14. Steven Michael Cochran, 72, is on house arrest and has pleaded not guilty.
Kweku Turkson, 37, an English teacher at West Prep Academy, was arrested Friday by Metropolitan Police Department officers and is jailed on counts of lewdness and attempted lewdness with a minor.
A lawsuit against the Clark County School District and the Mack Middle School teacher’s assistant accused of sexually assaulting an autistic student is heading to federal court.
The trial of Jason Lofthouse, a former Rancho High School teacher accused of having sex with a student, will rest largely on whether jurors believe he kidnapped the 17-year-old girl when they visited area hotels twice during school hours.
