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Nov 14, 2008 7:05 pm US/Central
Ellis Co. Teacher Arrested For Online Solicitation
Arezow Doost
WAXAHACHIE (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Teacher Shawn Quinney was arrested on charges of online solicitation of a minor in November, 2008.
Ellis County, Texas Sheriff's Dept.
A North Texas teacher has been arrested for inappropriate behavior with a teenager.
Shawn Quinney, 27, was a teacher at Eagle Advantage Academy in Waxahachie until Oct. 31. He worked there for a little more than a year and taught drama, theater, music. At one point he was also a cheerleading coach.
Quinney is now charged with online solicitation of a minor and sexual performance by a child.
According to Quinney's arrest warrant, he admitted to creating two fake MySpace accounts in the name of David Owens, which he used to contact minors.
"During the contact with these minors, Quinney related he would speak of 'sexual things' and deceived them into thinking that he was somebody that he was not," police stated in an arrest warrant.
One of the minors he contacted was a 15-year-old male who attends Eagle Advantage Academy, police say.
Investigators say the relationship evolved from the internet to phone calls. That's when Quinney allegedly asked the teen to engage in inappropriate sexual acts.
Police say there is no evidence that Quinney ever physically met with the teen.
Dallas police got involved last month after their department's Crimes Against Children Unit investigated a report of online solicitation.
Quinney was arrested by Dallas police and is now out on $60,000 bond.
Officials at the charter school directed all questions to the corporate office in Dallas. However, no one has responded publicly to the incident.
CBS 11 attempted to reach Quinney and the charter school for a comment on this story. Quinney did not return any phone calls. Charter school officials are not commenting other than to say he no longer works at the school.
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