According to WHNS,<\/a> 27-year-old Dylan Robert Dukes, a former teacher at Starr Elementary School, pleaded guilty Wednesday after he stalked an 11-year-old girl and showered her with gifts of affection.<\/p>\nCiting arrest warrants, the outlet reported that Dukes gifted the child the following items, which caused her to feel uncomfortable around him:<\/p>\n
More than 60 love letters<\/p>\n
The report states that Dukes joined the 11-year-old’s church after he learned that she would no longer be a student at Starr Elementary School. Anderson County deputies told WHNS reporters that Dukes’ classroom was searched, and multiple pictures of the child were discovered in his desk.<\/p>\n
Authorities noted that none of the images were sexual in nature, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Dukes was arrested and charged with stalking. He was initially handed a $50,000 surety bond and was ordered to have no contact with the victim or her family, WHNS reported.<\/p>\n
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During a plea hearing on Wednesday, Dukes pleaded guilty to first-degree harassment and was sentenced to three years of incarceration, suspended to five years of probation, according to the outlet. The former teacher must surrender his teaching certificate, attend mental health counseling, and agree to a permanent restraining order prohibiting any contact with the victim, WHNS reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. (WKRC) \u2013 A teacher was arrested after he allegedly showered a child with gifts and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-56761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}