Local Teacher Charged With Sexual Abuse Of Student

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. -- A Nassau County elementary school teacher has been charged with sexually abusing a student. Richard Paulette, 24, a teacher at Atlantic Elementary School in Fernandina Beach, was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a student in a classroom. Sheriff Tommy Seagraves, of the Nassau County Sheriff's Office, said Paulette has been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under the age of 12.