DANVILLE (IL)
The News-Gazette

Fri, 07/13/2012 – 7:00am | Noelle McGee, staff writer,

DANVILLE — A former custodian at the Danville Christian Academy testified Thursday that he occasionally saw teacher Mark R. List and a male student at the school at night while making his cleaning rounds.

But the custodian, Anthony Hughes, said that on those occasions, the teacher and student weren’t alone; List’s wife and/or the student’s mother were there, too.

Hughes was one of two defense witnesses who testified on the third day of List’s sexual abuse and assault trial in Vermilion County Circuit Court. The trial is scheduled to continue today.

List, 36, of Danville, faces one count each of criminal sexual assault-a position of trust, aggravated criminal sexual abuse and indecent solicitation of a child, stemming from the student’s allegations that List — his teacher, tutor and mentor — fondled him numerous times at the…