Clark County teacher arrested for allegedly sharing inappropriate image of special needs student
Ray Garcia, 42, a physical education teacher at Edna F. Hinman Elemntary School, was arrested Wednesday by Clark County School District police. CCSD said Garcia has been employed with the district since January 2013, and he said he has worked at Hinman Elementary for the past six years.
According to an arrest report obtained by Channel 13, Garcia allegedly texted a nude image of a special needs student in a group chat with four colleagues, including school counselor Bethany Hickey. The message reportedly included the caption "it must be hot outside," which police said Garcia possibly sent as a joke. The arrest report states all Garcia's colleagues were offended by the image.
Hickey reported the image to school principal David Copenbarger on Tuesday, who then contacted authorities and Child Protective Services.
During interviews with investigators, Hickey expressed discomfort with the image and provided police access to her phone to obtain the image and text messages. She told police the student has autism, is nonverbal, and sometimes removes his clothes.
https://www.ktnv.com/news/crime/clark-county-teacher-arrested-for-allegedly-sharing-inappropriate-image-of-special-needs-student
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Talk about fuckin tone deaf... I hope he gets a sex offender chagre and has to register, and it ruins his career. People like that don't deserve to work with kids, in any way.
(And to think in gym class in the 80's we had to "shower" and the teachers wouold stand there and watch us to make sure we did ... ugh)
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