FLORIDA
WPTV
[with video]
By: Dan Corcoran
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The alleged crimes occurred inside Rosarian Academy, West Palm Beach police say, at the hands of 51-year old Stephen Budd. Parents who were close with Budd years ago are shocked.
“Yes, my daughter was in his class,” said ‘Steven’, who did not want to publicize his last name, in fear of identifying his daughter. “I got sick to my stomach because you never know now.” ‘Steven’ said his daughter was a fourth grade student of Stephen Budd at Rosarian Academy in 2006 and 2007.
West Palm Beach police say that is when the suspect would use what he called “Budd Bucks”, offering rewards of candy to at least two female students in exchange for sexual acts.
‘Steven’ says neither he nor his daughter knew anything about any alleged abuse. “She was shocked,” he said. “She was almost in tears because that’s not the teacher that she had.”
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