Feminine ‘trainer of the month’ Casey McGrath charged with ‘raping pupil at Chattanooga highschool’ with cops saying the 28-year-old is ‘not less than 10 years older than the sufferer’

A Tennessee trainer, beforehand named ‘trainer of the month’ has been arrested and charged with the aggravated statutory rape of a pupil. 

Casey McGrath, 28, was arrested by native police in Hamilton County final Friday after being suspended in March whereas investigators regarded into claims that she had ‘inappropriate bodily contact with a pupil’ at Central Excessive College. 

The August 14 indictment in opposition to McGrath states she engaged in sexual exercise with somebody between the ages of 13 and 18 on Could 1st, 2022.

The authorized filings accused the trainer of ‘unlawfully and knowingly’ participating in ‘sexual penetration with an individual of not less than 13 years of age, however lower than 18,’ noting that she is ‘not less than 10 years older than the sufferer.’ 

The Tenth-grade geometry trainer’s personnel file, seen by News 9, reportedly acknowledged she had been suspended with pay and below investigation for ‘inappropriate bodily contact with a pupil that doesn’t end in hurt.’ 

Casey McGrath, 28, was arrested and charged with the aggravated statutory rape of a pupil 

Elsewhere within the file, it mentioned the inappropriate contact was ‘of a sexual nature.’ 

McGrath has been launched on bail after posting $10,000 bond and can reappear in Hamilton County Legal Court docket on September 6 for her arraignment. 

Aggravated statutory rape, a category D felony, is punishable by two to 12 years in jail, below state sentencing pointers. 

The 28-year-old was elected by college students as ‘trainer of the month,’ in keeping with an article within the college’s newspaper that has since been deleted. 

Hamilton County Colleges spokesman Steve Doremus instructed Information 9 McGrath is now not an worker of the district.

McGrath was suspended and investigated following claims that she had ‘inappropriate bodily contact with a pupil’ at Central Excessive College

 McGrath had labored at central highschool since 2020, she was beforehand employed by East Ridge Center College. 

McGrath additionally volunteered as an assistant volleyball coach with the college, telling the scholar newspaper within the deleted article that ‘with the ability to spend time with college students in a non-academic setting [gave] her the prospect to get to know them much more’, Fox News reported. 

McGrath majored in arithmetic at Lee College earlier than getting her grasp’s diploma in secondary schooling for arithmetic at Vanderbilt College in Nashville, in keeping with the scholar article.