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WEBVTT STUDENTS? REPORTER: GOOD EVENING. THIS IS RATTLING THIS COMMUNITY HERE IN SLIPPERY ROCK. AN 8th GRADE MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH TEACHER A SKIES OF GOING UP TO GIRLS IN HIS CLASSROOM WHO WERE 13 AND 14 YEARS OLD, WHENEVER THEY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT MATH CLASS FOR HELP, AND ALLEGEDLY GRABBING THEM FROM BEHIND, TOUCHING THEIR BUTT IS ACTUALLY WHAT IT SAYS IN THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT. ALL OF IT HAPPENING INSIDE OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL HERE IN SLIPPERY ROCK ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT. HE'S BEEN CHARGED WITH INSTITUTIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT. INDECENT ASSAULT. ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF A CHILD, AND HARASSMENT. THE SUSPECT IS 51-YEAR-OLD RONALD REAGAN MEDICAL CENTER WHO O ! 51-YEAR-OLD RON ROBERT WILLISON, AND 8th GRADE MATH TEACHER. I SPOKE WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT AND ASKED HIM ABOUT PRIOR ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THIS TEACHER, SUSPENSIONS FROM 2012 AND 2015 AND WHETHER POLICE WERE EVER CALLED THEN. THE SUPERINTENDENT WOULD NOT ANSWER, HE SAID IT'S A PERSONNEL MOUNTAINS,

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Robert Willison, 51, of Slippery Rock was charged with institutional sexual assault, indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minors and harassment Thursday. The assaults reportedly happened on four separate dates and times with four separate female students. Three of the female victims are 13 years old and the fourth victim is 14 years old. All four victims reported that the occurrences happened at the middle school. During the occurrences, Willison inappropriately touched students during class, according to state police. Willison was suspended from his position as a teacher at the middle school and the charges were filed through the Slippery Rock Magisterial District Judge.According to the school district's superintendent, Willison was suspended when the district learned of the allegations around the time of Sept. 20. According to the criminal complaint, Willison had a history of inappropriate sexual contact on the school campus that police were made aware of after the most recent allegations came to light. Police said Willison was suspended in 2012 after the school district said he grabbed a female teacher's "butt" in the copy room. Police said Willison was suspended again in 2015 under similar circumstances. That suspension was for making a lewd comment about middle school girls, gazing at a middle school girl and touching her during a track exercise, and touching the butt of a female teacher at a track workout. WTAE reporter Beau Berman asked the superintendent whether those suspensions and incidents were ever reported to police and he did not answer the question. State Police wrote in the affidavit that they did not discover the 2012 and 2015 suspensions until they began investigating the most recent allegations in 2018.