Rusk, TEXAS

INVESTIGATION

Sept 12, 2007 - The FBI is investigating an unnamed Rusk High School teacher for child pornography. The teacher resigned last week.

Two other teachers in Cherokee County have been investigated in less than a year.

ALLEN
In June, Josh Allen, 23, - a music instructor at Jacksonville Christian Academy, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for possession of more than 600 images of child pornography on his computer.

BASSE
Another Rusk teacher, Brian Edward Basse, 34, was indicted by a Cherokee County grand jury in March and charged with two second degree felonies, indecency with a child and improper relationship between an educator and student.
He was a teacher in Rusk at the time of his arrest.

GUILTY PLEA AND SENTENCING: Basse pleaded guilty to charges of indecency with a child and improper relationship by an educator with a student, both second-degree felonies. He was sentenced to three years in prison for each charge, with the two sentences being served concurrently.

TT - Neither was on our radar.