"My daughter did nothing wrong here." Creepy teacher, however, gets suspended sentence, home incarceration and -- FINALLY, a substantive punishment - registration as a sex offender for 10 years.
Oct 31, 2007 - Daryl Finley, 29, a Mount Hope High School Band Director, was arrested for sexual abuse by a parent or guardian. Details are sketchy at the story but the abuse apparently happened on a bus coming back from a football game.
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TT - The school rates a 1 at Greatschools.net on a scale of 1 - 10 ( 1 being lowest).
There is only one Parent Rating and that was by a student.
I am not a parent but I am a student at Mount Hope High school and I feel the school does a good job. We do have extracurricular activities and academic programs,some children just don't get involved in them.----------------------
Submitted by a student
A Nov 15 hearing is scheduled. The student is 17.
GUILTY PLEA May 23 - Finley pleaded guilty to lesser charge of misdemeanor battery after striking a deal with prosecutors. Police alleged that he fondled the 17-year-old female student through her clothing during a Fayette County school-sponsored bus trip.
“The state will not recommend a specific sentence in this matter, and the defendant acknowledges that the state will be asking the court to find this crime to be sexually motivated,” Mann said in a May 19 letter to Finley’s lawyer, Michael Whitt.
SENTENCED July 21 - Finley was sentenced to to the maximum penalty of 12 months in jail, but lowercase judge Chief Circuit judge James J. Rowe, immediately suspended all but four months of the sentence. Rowe ruled that Finley will be allowed to carry out his sentence on a home incarceration program in Harrison County.
Rowe also sentenced Finley to five days in Southern Regional Jail and placed him on three years’ probation to begin after the completion of his home incarceration sentence. Finley must also register as a sex offender for ten years.
The victim’s father was also allowed to speak at the sentencing.“I hate to ruin this man’s life, but this can’t be overlooked,” he said. “I think it’s a pretty sad when the people we trust (to keep children safe) can’t keep their hands to themselves. My daughter did nothing wrong here.”
