KENTUCKY
WDRB
[with video]
By Bennett Haeberle
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (WDRB) – Fired from his job as a Hardin County teacher a day after his arrest on a sex abuse charge, WDRB News has learned Edwin Bonet-Ruiz has been let go from two other posts: his role as a Spanish pastor at a Radcliff church and as a special deputy working for the Hardin County Sheriff’s Department.
Hardin County Sheriff Charlie Williams told WDRB News that Bonet-Ruiz has worked for the sheriff’s department for nine years as a special deputy – working traffic duties at places like the county fairgrounds and acting as a Spanish translator for the sheriff’s department and other area police departments.
Williams says Bonet-Ruiz, 54, did not have arrest power, but was working in an unpaid position. Williams added that those duties were revoked after Bonet-Ruiz’s arrest on Monday.
Edwin Bonet-Ruiz is accused of hugging and kissing a 14-year old student in his classroom last week at Central Hardin High School. After the girl told a school resource officer of the incident, investigations were launched by both the school district and the Elizabethtown Police Department.
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