Thursday, January 14, 2010

St. Paul junior high teacher accused of fondling girl, 12

A 43-year-old St. Paul junior high school teacher charged Wednesday with criminal sexual conduct is accused of drugging and then molesting a 12-year-old girl.

Robert Howard Swanson, a math teacher at St. Paul's Ramsey Junior High School, was charged in Isanti County District Court. The attack is alleged to have occurred over the New Year's weekend at his Cambridge home.