A high school English teacher charged with sexual misconduct last week kissed a 17-year-old female student and had several after-hours phone calls with her, authorities allege in a court document.

Kenneth Shindle, 28, a teacher at Hillsborough High School, had over 200 calls with the student between January and May this year, a probable cause affidavit in the case says.

Kenneth Shindle

Shindle and the student also had visits at his home in Plainsboro, including one on May 6 in which both he and the student admit they kissed on his couch, the complaint says.

"The defendant had unsupervised visits at his residence with the student, where on May 6, 2018, both the defendant and victim admitted to kissing on the defendant's couch," the complaint reads.

Authorities charged Shindle on June 5 with two second-degree counts of endangering the welfare of a child. One count was for sexual conduct that would "impair or debauch the morals of the child." The other alleges conduct that made the victim "an abused or neglected child."

Shindle was suspended from his English teaching position at the Hillsborough High, where he's taught for five years and has tenure.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office did not move to detain Shindle during a court hearing last week, and he was released from the Middlesex County jail, according to Joe Compitello, the attorney who represented him at the time.

Shindle is on weekly court-ordered monitoring.

Shindle's current defense attorney, Thomas Campo, declined to comment Tuesday.

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