Melvin Fair, 55, is charged with four counts of indecent liberties.
Fair is a teacher at Southeast Middle School in Kernersville. He has been charged in two different cases involving two different girls.
One allegation stems from an incident that happened between December 2006 and June 2007. The other goes back to 1999.
According to arrest warrants filed in Forsyth County District Court, both cases involve students at Southeast Middle School.
Fair has been teaching at the school since 1998. He has been employed by the school system since 1995, after leaving Guilford County Schools as a high school athletic director.
School leaders say they contacted the Kernersville Police Department after receiving questionable information about Fair.
Authorities charged Fair on Thursday, following a two-month investigation into the most recent allegation, involving a 14-year-old girl.
During that investigation, police uncovered information leading them to charge Fair in another case.
Those allegations stem from an incident that happened between September of 1999 and June of 2000, involving a 12-year-old girl.
School officials hope this case will prevent others from happening.
"We have 4,000 teachers and sometimes in the population of 4,000, there's going to be aberrant behavior. And that aberrant behavior gets a lot of attention, as it should. I think that attention helps as a deterrent and I actually think it helps other kids come forward," said Don Martin, superintendent of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
Fair is a teacher at Southeast Middle School in Kernersville. He has been charged in two different cases involving two different girls.
One allegation stems from an incident that happened between December 2006 and June 2007. The other goes back to 1999.
According to arrest warrants filed in Forsyth County District Court, both cases involve students at Southeast Middle School.
Fair has been teaching at the school since 1998. He has been employed by the school system since 1995, after leaving Guilford County Schools as a high school athletic director.
School leaders say they contacted the Kernersville Police Department after receiving questionable information about Fair.
Authorities charged Fair on Thursday, following a two-month investigation into the most recent allegation, involving a 14-year-old girl.
During that investigation, police uncovered information leading them to charge Fair in another case.
Those allegations stem from an incident that happened between September of 1999 and June of 2000, involving a 12-year-old girl.
School officials hope this case will prevent others from happening.
"We have 4,000 teachers and sometimes in the population of 4,000, there's going to be aberrant behavior. And that aberrant behavior gets a lot of attention, as it should. I think that attention helps as a deterrent and I actually think it helps other kids come forward," said Don Martin, superintendent of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
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