Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Former Cabell County Teacher Fired


{Huntington, West Virginia}…During a special meeting Tuesday afternoon, the Cabell County School Board fired former school librarian and teacher 31 year old Lennie Adkins. In February, a grand jury indicted Adkins on eight counts of possession of material depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and eight counts of employment or use of a minor to produce obscene matter. Adkins, was arrested in June 2011, but, in September, prosecutors dismissed all the criminal charges. State Police say they found six pictures on his computer, dating back to 2008, of nude males who were minors at the time. Adkins last worked as a school librarian at Geneva Kent Elementary in Huntington, but he has also worked at other schools in the district, including Cabell Midland High School