Former Pierceton Woods Employee Facing Felony Charge
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Amanda Bridgman-
A woman who was employed at Pierceton Woods Academy has a warrant out for her arrest to face a felony charge of child seduction.
Police are seeking to apprehend Kaitlyn A. McCullough, 24, of Albion, to have her answer to a Level 6 felony charge of child seduction, according to the probable cause affidavit filed Jan. 5 in Kosciusko Superior Court I.
According to court papers, on July 8 the Indiana Department of Child Services received a report of a child seduction allegation at Pierceton Woods Academy involving McCullough and a juvenile resident at the facility.
Police interviewed the boy the following day who said he entered into a relationship with McCullough while she was employed there. The boy provided police with Facebook messages between himself and McCullough, according to the affidavit, that showed the nature of the relationship between the two spanned from May through June.
The juvenile further described two events that took place in the wooded area by the ropes course on the Pierceton Woods property where he and McCullough kissed and he touched her buttocks and chest over her clothes.
According to court papers, when police spoke with McCullough she admitted to everything the juvenile said.
When she’s arrested, she’ll have a $5,250 bond set.
This case further amplifies the allegations Pierceton Woods Academy administrators and former employees are facing in a civil lawsuit filed by the father of a boy who went there. That suit alleges that an employee, Darby Ellis Perry, engaged in sexual activity with the child and that higher-ups there knew it was going on. That lawsuit also claims the employee was able to go into the wooded area and leave the property unsupervised.
