Campfire Kev is in a lot of trouble and not just with the police.
May 29, 2008 - Kevin Holladay, 42, a Bardstown High School drama teacher, was arrested, along with his wife, last week. He
was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a female student and his wife Marta Holladay, 34, a veteran teacher, was charged with assaulting the student on school property when she found out.
Marta Holladay had been teaching in Bardstown for five years, while Kevin Holladay was a part-time employee for three years. Kevin Holladay is accused of kissing a 15-year-old student, including on the bare breast, and attempting to take off her clothes. At Kevin Holladay’s full-time job, he’s knows as “Campfire Kev,” traveling from school-to-school performing for kids; one reason, WHAS11 asserts, officials think they’re may be more victims.
The couple resigned in April but had planned to finish the school year before they were arrested.
NO NATIONAL BACKGROUND CHECK May 29 - WHAS11 is reporting that Kevil Holladay was charged in July 1997 with sexual assault against a child.
According to reports, Holladay was a counselor at a summer camp in Wisconsin, when he allegedly fondled a 13-year-old girl who fell asleep while watching a movie with him. A jury later found Holladay "not guilty".He also had a misdemeanor conviction on a theft-related charge in Indiana, none of which showed up in a background check because only certified teachers are required to undergo national background checks in Kentucky. Kevin Holladay was a part-time classified employee.
OTHER COMPLAINTS May 29 - A student who is a junior at the school and has been involved in the student drama program since Holladay began working as the school’s drama coach three years ago says that she became so upset at Holladay’s behavior around female students that she and her mother went to the school’s former principal last fall and told him about it
She says that others have made the school’s current principal aware that there might something improper going on. Pictures have been circulating around MySpace for months. When a new principal arrived, Cara Blackmon, the student says parents and coaches from other speech teams contacted the school.
ADDITIONAL CHARGES June 4 - The grand jury has indicted 42-year-old Kevin Holladay on seven new felony counts of illegal transaction with a minor and seven additional counts of sexual abuse. All of the charges involve the same victim. Both Halladays have resigned from the school.
