Jan 24, 2007 - Dion Savage, a former Dover High School teacher, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and a year of home confinement for what is termed [by WMDT] "the 10-month long affair" with an underage male student.
News Journal: [Calls it a sexual affair] Savage pleaded guilty to three counts of fourth-degree rape and a single count of possessing child pornography. [Bolding ours.]
Savage was arrested June 16 after one of his students reported that Savage had kissed him in Dover High’s choral room and offered money to let Savage perform oral sex on him. He was arrested again June 26 and charged with 13 counts of rape stemming from the consensual affair with the 17-year-old, 10 of which were dropped by the state in exchange for Savage’s guilty plea.The child pornography charge were photographs Savage had taken of a second Dover High School student, which were found during a search of his house.
Savage’s case was hurt by a withering [not explained] pre-sentence report, which noted violation of probation in the only other crime on his record [not explained] and lies told by the defendant [not explained] at various points in his life.
The sentence interrupts what promised to be a prodigious career as a gospel singer...."In his own statement, a tearful Savage apologized for perpetrating a taint on the community at large -– going so far as to ask foregiveness from Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, Sen. Joe Biden and other luminaries who had heard him sing and expressed appreciation for his talent."
Full name: Dion L. Savage
TT- What a travesty of a sentence. Newspapers and news sites calling statutory rape "an affair" is irresponsible and despicable.
