A small Indiana community is in shock after it was revealed that three male teachers at North Putnam High School admitted to passing around a 16-year-old male student among themselves.
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The 16-year-old boy came forward and told prosecutors that the band director, a swim coach and a substitute Spanish teacher all engaged in physical relationships with him several times on the grounds of the central Indiana High School.
The teachers arrested were: Nicholas A. Vester, 24, a substitute Spanish teacher who worked at the school for 12 weeks last fall; Craig E. Rogers, 24, the band director who is currently on paid leave and Brandon D. Largent, 20, a student at Ivy Tech community college who was a lifeguard and volunteer swim coach at the school.
According to police, Vester met the young boy at the high school in October and the two exchanged text messages and pictures, including nude photos.
In November, the sexual behavior escalated with the teachers when Vester fondled the boy in his car in the parking lot of a local store and the pair engaged in oral sex.
In December, Vester had sex with the teen in the back of his car on a roadside after a basketball game at the high school, the teacher told police.
It was Vester who introduced Rogers, a prominent teacher at the small school, to the teen. Rogers said he kissed the teen ‘with tongue’ and hugged him at least three times in December and January after the introduction.
In Indiana, it is illegal for teachers, coaches or anyone who is a guardian of children, to have a physical relationship with a minor whom they look after.
Prosecutor Tim Bookwalter said:
“We’re a rural community where people don’t lock their doors at night and people leave their keys in their cars around the courthouse.
These things just don’t happen around here. So I’ve never had an allegation involving any teacher, let along three teachers.”
How could teachers take such blatant advantage of a student?
ABOVE: Brandon D. Largent, 20, admitted to kissing him. Nicholas A. Vester, 24, was the first to being a physical relationship with the teen. Craig E. Rogers, 24, admitted to kissing the boy with his tongue at the high school.
