(Spartanburg) - A Spartanburg County judge set bond at $60,000 for the former Chapman High School band director, who is accused of inappropriately touching four teenage girls and offering one of them money for sex.
Thomas Newton Khoe, 36, is behind bars on nine separate charges: four counts of aggravated assault and battery, four counts of contributing to the deliquency of a minor and one charge of criminal solicitation of a minor.
Bond was set early Tuesday morning by the judge. Khoe was still behind bars at the Spartanburg County Detention Center as of 7 a.m. Tuesday. He turned himself in at the jail Monday evening.
WSPA-TV reports that the teenage girls came forward to school officials about two weeks ago with the allegations. According to warrants obtained by WSPA-TV, in one incident, Khoe entered a room where one of the girls was undressing and offered her $5,000 for sex.
District 1 Superintendent Jimmy Littlefield says he is deeply troubled by the allegations, and that Khoe was suspended once the students came forward, and has now been fired by the school district.
WSPA
9/11/2007 9:15:12 AM
