• A Florida teacher is facing charges after being accused of having sex with a then 12-year-old student multiple times in the classroom.
• “David Augustine Hodge Jr., 30, was charged on Wednesday with four counts of engaging in sexual acts with a child after the girl’s parents discovered the alleged abuse and reported him. Police say Hodge, a science teacher and chess club mentor at West Homestead K-8 Center, allegedly started grooming the girl, who is now 13, in October last year,” reports the New York Post.
• A judge refused bond, and Hodge Jr. is being held at a Miami-Dade County jail.

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