Fired or retired?
July 7, 2007 - Edward B. Barber, a former county supervisor and physical education teacher at Crenshaw Elementary School, is suing the school district for $200,000 plus attorneys fees as compensation for benefits he was denied after he left the school system last summer.
Barber was suspended from his job after he was arrested Dec. 29, 2005, on two felony sex-crime charges involving his teenage stepdaughter. He continued to serve as a supervisor after his arrest but resigned that post not long after pleading guilty June 28 last year to two misdemeanor counts of sexually battery against the girl.He claimed he filed for retirement and the district claims he was fired August 9 and was ineligible for benefits.
He could probably use the money. He's being sued by his step-daughter for $7.35 million.
TT - For the sexual battery, Barber was given a two-year suspended sentence, three years of probation and 100 hours of community service. It is too bad communities can't sue judges for imposing slimeballs on the public.
Nov 7 - Barber has created a web site to provide legal information to people accused of crimes. It can be found at http://www.iamaccused.org/ Reportedly, he intends to run it as a subscription-based service. The first posting was about his arrest but that was pulled when the newspaper contacted him.
Barber maintains he pleaded guilty to avoid incarceration. A poster at the site commented, " I would go to prison for 100 years before I would plead guilty to molesting my daughter if i were acctually innocent. "
