Principal David A. Holinger Charged with Sexually Touching Minor

A center faculty principal in Maine discovered himself behind bars this week after being accused of molesting a woman. David A. Holinger, the 41-year-old principal of Mount View Center College in Thorndike, was taken into custody and charged with three counts of illegal sexual touching of a minor, the Bangor Day by day Information reported.

In line with the report, investigators with the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Workplace started trying into allegations that Holinger engaged within the inappropriate conduct someday final month. The alleged abuse reportedly happened at a non-public residence in Belgrade. The alleged sufferer, who is just not a scholar at Mount View Center College, reportedly informed a forensic interviewer in December 2021 that Holinger was intoxicated on the time of the alleged abuse.

Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Learn reportedly stated that deputies obtained an arrest warrant for Holinger on Tuesday. He was booked and launched after posting a money bond of $1,000 that very same day. The utmost penalty for illegal sexual touching, a Class D misdemeanor, is 364 days in jail and as much as $2,000 in fines.

Per Lt. Learn, a choose reportedly positioned circumstances on Holinger’s launch that embody prohibiting him from having any direct or oblique contact with the alleged sufferer. He’s additionally reportedly prohibited from having any unsupervised contact with ladies beneath the age of 16.

Regional College Unit 3 (RSU3) Superintendent Charles Brown, who reportedly solely discovered about Holinger’s arrest from the Thursday Bangor Day by day Information report, launched an announcement saying that Holinger has been positioned on administrative go away from his place whereas the district conducts an inner investigation into the allegations levied towards him.

“[Holinger] has been knowledgeable that he’s to don’t have any contact with any RSU 3 college students or enter RSU 3 grounds,” Brown reportedly wrote in an e mail to college students and oldsters. “RSU 3 takes these allegations extraordinarily severely and can take all actions essential to be able to make sure that its college students are secure and guarded.”

In line with a report from the Republican Journal, Holinger started his profession educating biology in Outdated Orchard Seashore in 2002. That very same yr he was reportedly named the Maine Biology Trainer of the Yr by the Nationwide Affiliation of Biology Academics. He then turned the top of faculty at Kennebec Montessori College in Fairfield till the RSU3 Board of Administrators authorized his hiring as principal of Mount View Center College in July 2019.

Holinger earned a bachelor’s diploma in marine science from the College of New England earlier than getting his grasp’s in instructional management from Thomas School, the Penobscot Bay Pilot reported after his hiring.

Holinger additionally reportedly served because the president and treasurer of the non-profit Maine Youth Alliance. The group’s government co-director Ray Estabrook informed the outlet that the group was “very involved” concerning the allegations and stated it could be “guided by the varsity district’s actions.”

Holinger is at present scheduled to look on the Capital Judicial Middle in Augusta for a listening to at 8:30 a.m. on Feb. 18.

[image via RSU3]

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