{"id":53091,"date":"2014-08-26T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53091"},"modified":"2014-08-28T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:57:09","slug":"knodel-suspended-accused-sex-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53091","title":{"rendered":"Teacher accused of sex crime suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/knodelaaron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53092\" alt=\"knodelaaron\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/knodelaaron.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The reigning North Dakota teacher of the year who is accused of a child sex crime has now been suspended from his job.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The West Fargo School Board on Monday night voted unanimously to suspend Aaron Knodel without pay or benefits. He had been on paid administrative leave since February, when the school first learned of the allegations against him.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Knodel is accused of having sexual contact with a 17-year-old female student more than five years ago. He faces five counts of felony corruption or solicitation of a minor. He&#8217;s due in court on Sept. 5 to enter pleas to the charges.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Defense attorney Robert Hoy has said that Knodel is not guilty and passed a lie-detector test. Hoy declined comment on the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The reigning North Dakota teacher of the year who is accused of a child sex crime has now been suspended from his job. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The West Fargo School Board on Monday night voted unanimously to suspend Aaron Knodel without pay or benefits. He had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53096,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53091\/revisions\/53096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}