FLORIDA
Palm Beach Post
By Alexandra Seltzer
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
The state Department of Children and Families confirmed Friday that they have previously investigated a case involving the Palm Beach County teacher accused of giving out candy for sexual acts to former students.
DCF does not comment on past investigations.
Stephen Budd, 51, the man accused of sexual battery during the 2006-07 school year when he was a teacher at Rosarian Academy in West Palm Beach, has no criminal history in neither Florida, nor the Pennsylvania county he grew up in.
A DCF spokeswoman could only say that the previously investigated case involving Budd “was not recent.”
A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s spokeswoman did say that deputies investigated a complaint made my Budd in October 2006 when he accused his ex-wife of child abuse. Budd reported to deputies that she choked their youngest daughter, who was 16 at the time. No arrests were made in that case.
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