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CLEVELAND, Ohio - A Cuyahoga County grand jury has indicted a former teacher accused of raping a student at an all-girls school in Shaker Heights.

The teacher, 58, of Shaker Heights, is charged with rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and gross sexual imposition in connection with two incidents at the Laurel School.

The charges are related to incidents that happened during the 2012-2013 school year, Headmistress Ann Klotz said. The coach worked as a middle school teacher and coach at the school from 2007 to 2013.

Klotz said Monday in a letter to parents that a Laurel School student's family reported the incidents in the fall of 2014. The school reported the incidents to the Shaker Heights Police Department and Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services. It also hired an independent investigator to review the school's handling of the matter and the safety of students.

"We remain deeply disturbed by this situation and our hearts are with the former student and her family, as well as with the entire Laurel School community, past and present, as we work through this difficult time and provide support to our students, alumnae, parents and faculty," Klotz said in Monday's letter.

Klotz will discuss the matter with students in the Upper School on Tuesday. The school's administrators and psychologists will be available to students for support, Klotz said.

"As always, the safety and well-being of children is our highest priority at Laurel School," Klotz said in the letter. "We want all children to feel safe and to be safe at School every day."

The school has taken steps to address safety since the accusations against the coach came to light. Faculty and staff are required to participate in annual training through the Darkness to Light program, which raises awareness of child sexual abuse, Klotz said.

The school has also reviewed its existing policies and procedures and augmented its self-advocacy and sexuality education curriculum.

Klotz encouraged anyone with additional information about the matter to contact the school's independent investigator Mary Beth Hogan at 212-909-6996 or the Shaker Heights Police Department.

The school has been at the center of a sexual assault in the past. In 2002, former gym teacher William Reames was sentenced to 16 years in prison after being convicted of raping and impregnating a 12-year-old girl, according to court records.

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