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Charges Dropped Against Accused Teacher

By Brian Hagen

03/02/2016

Shelly Aversman

(KAIR)--Dismissed without prejudice. That's the outcome of an Atchison County Court case involving a former Atchison High School teacher accused of an illegal sexual relationship with a student.

Atchison County Attorney Jerry Kuckelman says the charges against 38-year-old Shelly Aversman were dropped Wednesday when the victim announced there had been no crime. “We were scheduled for a preliminary hearing to determine the probable cause on the case,” Kuckelman tells MSC News. “As the case began, the victim in the case recanted his story and indicated that the acts had not occurred while he was a student, that any acts that occurred between he and the defendant had occurred after he had graduated from high school. Therefore, with no evidence, we had no choice but to dismiss the charges.”

Aversman faced one felony count of unlawful sexual relations, which applied only if the then 17-year-old boy was a student. “He was over the age of consent,” Kuckelman says. “This is a crime that has to do with a teacher/student relationship.”

Aversman was arrested, and charged, in December following an investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

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