James Born spends his weekdays teaching English at Pennsylvania’s Harbor Creek junior high school. He spends his nights at the Erie County Community Corrections Center. No, he’s not teaching inmates to read. He’s doing time — 30 days to six months with work-release privileges.
The Erie Times-News quotes Harbor Creek schools Superintendent Rick Lansberry who says the situation is “not something the district is happy about” but was advised legally to allow Born to keep working in the classroom after he violated his estranged wife’s order of protection
“He is here today doing an effective job teaching,” Lansberry said of Born. “At this point, our primary concern is performance.” The paper reports Born “is the same teacher who was accused of sexually assaulting two female students in his 11th-grade English class during separate incidents in January 1999 and March 1999. A jury found him not guilty of all charges — two counts of indecent assault, two counts of corruption of a minor and one count of luring a child into a motor vehicle — in May 2001.”
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