Former high school music teacher arrested on multiple child sex crimes charges – By Raisa Habersham (ajc.com) / Feb 6 2018
A former Henry County Schools teacher was arrested and charged with multiple child sex crimes charges, according to jail records.
Ryan Harvey, 24, remained in the Henry County jail late Monday on eight charges including aggravated child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, sexual battery against a child under 16 and solicitation of sodomy from someone under 18 years old.
Harvey was arrested Sunday following an investigation into a tip Henry County Schools received, distict spokesman J.D. Hardin told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Harvey was an orchestra teacher at Woodland High School, according to his Facebook page.
“We can’t give many details due to this being a criminal investigation,” Hardin said. “What we can say is that the former teacher was placed on administrative leave and removed from the classroom upon our school receiving a tip from a community member. This was a serious allegation and one never tolerated by our school system.”
The findings were turned over to authorities.
Hardin said Harvey resigned during the investigation.
Harvey also faces furnishing obscene material to a minor between 14 and 18; use of computer to seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child to commit an illegal act; and two counts sexual assault by a probation/parole employee against a probationer/parolee under supervision of the same probation/parole officer, according to jail records.
He has not been given bond.
