POTTSVILLE, Pa. - The Roman Catholic Diocece of Allentown has suspended a high school gym teacher charged with videotaping partially clad teenage girls in the school locker room.
Daniel M. Shields Jr., a longtime teacher and track coach at Nativity BVM High School in Pottsville, was charged Tuesday after police received a videotape that showed three Nativity students in various stages of undress.
The tape had Shields' handwriting on it, and was labeled with the names of the girls and dated "5/25/05," according to police.
Detective Steven Guers told a district judge at Shields' arraignment Tuesday that the tape was made "surreptitiously" and had both Shields' voice and image on it.
One of the girls on the tape told about it when she learned of its existence, according to court papers.
Shields, 61, was charged with two felony counts of sexual abuse of children and other offenses. He was released after posting $5,000 cash bail.
