July 27, 2007 - Ashley Keller, 24, a physical education teacher and coach for the Payton-Churdan School District, is in jail again. She was arrested in June on charges of providing alcohol to two 15-year-old students. (AOL News said they had been invited to a party at her apartment. Story in cache.)
She was charged with two counts of providing alcohol to a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She pleaded not guilty.
She now faces now faces 986 charges of contempt of court for contacting one of the boys after a condition of her bail was not to do so. In two weeks Keller sent and received 986 text messages. The court documents also said that some of the messages were sexual in nature.
Her trial on the alcohol charges is scheduled for September.
NEW CHARGES: August 23 - Police have charged her with with harboring a runaway and contempt of court. Police said she violated a court order not to have contact with the 15-year-old by sending him 900 text messages.
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LICENSE INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED without possibility of reinstatement for five years by the state Board of Education. Case Number 07-22. Minutes
Found in June 2008 minutes (pg. 4)
Friday, July 27, 2007
Churdan, IOWA
