By Verna Slate, Williamson County Bureau
CARTERVILLE — A classroom aide at a Carterville high school has been charged with solicitation of a student, according to WPSD Local 6. The charge strikes at the basic trust a school district asks parents to extend every morning at drop-off.
It lands in the same season as a separate case out of Carbondale, where the Daily Egyptian reports a Carbondale Community High School teacher's aide is accused in a federal criminal complaint of exploiting an underage girl online — two different districts, two adults who were supposed to be watching out for kids instead facing charges over how they treated one.
No details on the Carterville aide's identity, the school involved, or the specific allegations were included in the available reporting. The American Times will follow the case through the courts.
— Compiled from reporting by WPSD Local 6.
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