FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
By Marc Freeman, Sun Sentinel
4:02 p.m. EDT, May 3, 2013
A former West Palm Beach private school teacher accused of sexually assaulting two 9-year-old students during the 2006-07 school year will stand trial Sept. 23, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Stephen Rapp ordered Friday.
Stephen Jerome Budd, 51, will stay in Palm Beach County Jail until the trial, unless the court receives a new request for bail for the former fourth-grade teacher at Rosarian Academy.
Defense attorney Jason Weiss withdrew his motion seeking bond at a hearing Friday, after conferring with his client and Assistant State Attorney Jessica Kahn. Weiss said he had just received more information concerning the charges and needed to examine it.
Rapp also alerted the attorneys that family members, including nieces, were former or current students at the school but he wasn’t aware of any connection with the case.
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