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A forty five-year-old substitute trainer and spouse of a high-ranking Protection Division official has been arrested for having intercourse with a minor scholar within the again seat of a automobile.
Native legislation enforcement responded to a report of a suspicious automobile parked on a abandoned street.
Upon arrival, they discovered Erin Ward and a 17-year-old Burke Excessive College scholar mendacity bare within the again seat of a Honda sedan.
The terrified boy tried to drive away, however after crashing the automobile a number of blocks away, he fled the scene on foot, carrying solely underwear, a T-shirt, and socks. He was later discovered hiding in a yard.
Each Ward and the minor had been taken to the hospital for remedy of minor accidents sustained within the crash. Throughout the investigation, Ward, who had an Omaha Public Faculties ID, admitted to having intercourse with the coed. She has been working as an alternative trainer in varied colleges, together with the establishment the place the minor research.
The automobile in query has been recognized as that of Ward's husband, William Douglas 'Doug' Ward, who’s the Deputy Director and Senior Advisor at the USA Strategic Command.
Based on The New York Publish, Doug Ward is a distinguished alumnus of the Harvard Extension College and has been a devoted member of the Strategic Command. The command performs an important function in figuring out and stopping assaults towards the USA and its allies.
The couple, who’ve three teenage youngsters, considered one of whom is the age of the coed in query, reside in Gretna.
As a result of the teenager was over Nebraska's age of consent, which is 16, the trainer escaped statutory rape expenses. Nonetheless, he was nonetheless critically accused of sexual abuse by a college worker.
The Every day Mail reported:
Erin Ward, 45, appeared clearly dazed and disoriented in a mugshot launched by the Douglas County Sheriff's Workplace three days after her arrest.
She appeared in Douglas County Court docket on Tuesday carrying an orange jumpsuit to face expenses of felony sexual assault by a college worker.
'Ma'am, you have got been charged with a Class IIA felony. The punishment for this may be as much as 20 years in jail, a fantastic of as much as $10,000, or each. Do you perceive the potential penalties right here?' a decide requested in a clip posted by KETV.
Ward mentioned “sure” earlier than the decide suggested that if convicted he might be required to enroll within the state intercourse offender registry.
Ward appeared for the temporary listening to together with her lawyer, Jerry Hugh. She is due again in courtroom in Could.