KETTERING TEACHER FACES SEXUAL BATTERY CHARGES
Allegations include sexual relationships with multiple students.
A Kettering Fairmont High School substitute teacher was removed from the school building and arrested Wednesday for allegedly having sexual relationships with multiple students.
Madeline J. Marx, 23, was charged with two counts sexual battery and the case will be presented to a grand jury, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.
“Teachers are entrusted with the responsibility of educating children who are becoming young adults,” Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. said in a statement. “This defendant took advantage of her position and developed a sexual relationship with minor students.”
A Kettering police report indicates some alleged incidents happened between June 1 and Sept. 21, 2017, in a parking lot.
“Substitute teacher at Fairmont High School was found to have been involved in a sexual relationship with students,” the report’s narrative stated.
“Immediately, the administration began to investigate and also called Kettering police, who very quickly brought in a detective,” Kettering City School District Superintendent Scott Inskeep said. “We have a full-time resource officer at the high school also, and they began their investigation.”
A prosecutor’s office press release indicated Marx also substitute taught in Oakwood.
Marx was arrested by 11:45 a.m. Wednesday and first booked into Kettering’s jail. This news organization obtained dash-cam footage of Marx being transported by Kettering police to Montgomery County Jail Wednesday afternoon.
Inskeep said Marx acted as a substitute teacher last school year and so far this fall. State records indicated Marx has a four-year teaching license as a K-12 education intervention specialist.
Marx graduated in 2012 from Chaminade Julienne High School in Dayton and graduated from the University of Dayton in 2016