Ex-teacher charged in sex assault of six girls to face trial
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A former first-grade teacher in Nebraska who prosecutors say admitted to sexually abusing six girls has waived his preliminary hearing and will head to trial, according to reports.
Gregory Sedlacek, a 30-year-old former teacher at Fontenelle Elementary School, stood before a judge on Wednesday in Omaha, where he waived his preliminary hearing in connection with six counts of first-degree sexual assault on a child and one count of third-degree sexual assault on a child, KETV reports.
Deputy County Attorney Molly Keane told a judge that Sedlacek victimized six girls, all of whom he has confessed to sexually assaulting.
“He admitted to touching all of the kids that we have charged,” Keane said Wednesday.
But Sedlacek’s attorney, Marc Delman, said he plans to file motions to request suppression hearings to ensure that the purported confession was obtained legally by police.
“Right now, it’s pure hearsay,” Delman told the station.
Prosecutors said at least four other girls have been forensically interviewed by investigators and some of Sedlacek’s alleged victims told authorities that they were inappropriately touched by him on many occasions. One of the girls also told police she saw Sedlacek molest several other students during the alleged incidents, which prosecutors claim took place between August and November, KETV reports.
Sedlacek was arrested Dec. 3 after teachers at the school called the Nebraska child abuse hotline to report on Nov. 20 that he was spotted with his hand up a 7-year-old girl’s skirt while at the school’s playground. The three-year employee was immediately placed on administrative leave, while the girl later told police that Sedlacek had digitally penetrated her while at the playground and also inside a classroom
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