Saturday, February 8, 2014

Lawrence Joynes charged with victimizing one middle, 14 elementary students

Gazette:  Former Montgomery music teacher who is accused of sex abuse held without bail
...Montgomery County police said in his charging documents they found thousands of images of child pornography on one of his computers and on other digital devices he owned.
According to the charging documents in the first Montgomery case against Joynes — which pertains to his time teaching at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School — prosecutors say Joynes abused 14 young girls. The school serves students in preschool through second grade, according to the school’s website.
According to charging documents, Joynes trained a group of his favorite students, his “lunch bunch,” to engage in sexually suggestive behavior — like sucking on his fingers or on candy — while he photographed and videotaped them.
In Montgomery County District Court in Rockville, Assistant State’s Attorney Timothy Hagan argued that Joynes should be held without bail until his trial.
“The risk of flight is high here,” Hagan told Wolfe.
Hagan said that when the woman who had attended Eastern Middle School tried to contact Joynes and confront him about the abuse, Joynes malingered to avoid being found.
“The defendant not only falsified a death certificate to fake his own death, but also at different times, impersonated different individuals in order to avoid prosecution and discovery,” Hagan said...

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