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Details are coming out about the Jefferson Middle School/improper conduct scandal that opened up yesterday, and the Oak Ridger was good at gathering them up.  We’ve learned a bit ourselves.

Theres not much about Montgomery (Monty) Koons on the internet, except a letter to the Observer regarding Alan Beauchamp, the man the blogs love to hate; the arrest record I mentioned last night; and a rather odd fictional(?) blog indicating that a guy named Monty Koons in New Orleans violated parole by having ‘relations with an underage’.

I don’t apply this to the current case, but pull it up to show just how weird as hell life can be sometimes.

We’ve furthermore seen one of our commentors, and a longtime pal of mine indicate that there was administrative leave in this guy’s past over inappropriate contact with her daughter.

This is unsubstantiated, however, I don’t think this person would lie about this matter.  Read the comments from my previous post to find out what I know.  Regardless, evidently the school didn’t see an enormous problem, because he was allowed to go back to work, and the police weren’t called in.

The facts as we know them right now are that the contact has been going on since June, that the student is no longer in Jefferson, and that the contact didn’t happen during school hours.

I’m still operating on an innocent until proven guilty basis, and I suggest that everybody else do also, as it makes up the system of justice in this country.  Something like this can absolutely ruin a career and a life if unfounded.  Nobody likes a child abuser, but don’t throw that first stone yet.

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