DANVILLE (IL)
The News-Gazette
Thu, 07/12/2012 – 9:00am | Noelle McGee, staff writer,
DANVILLE — A former Danville Christian Academy student testified Wednesday that his teacher, tutor and mentor fondled him at the school on numerous occasions and once in his bedroom during his sophomore and junior years of high school.
During what he called the first of four “major incidents,” the former student, now 20, recalled that in January 2008, when he was 15, he and his teacher, Mark R. List, were in List’s office around 9 p.m., where List was helping him with homework. The two began wrestling and ended up on the floor with him lying on the ground and his teacher straddling his body. Then he felt the teacher’s hand and later his lips on his genitals.
“I was squirming around trying to get free, but it wasn’t working,” he said on the second day of List’s sexual abuse and assault trial in Vermilion County Circuit Court. He said he finally bit List’s genitals to get him off of him.
List, 36, of Danville, faces one count of criminal sexual assault-a position of trust, a Class 1 felony; one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a Class 2 felony; and one count of indecent solicitation of a child, a Class 3 felony.
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