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An Illinois special-needs teaching assistant accused of molesting a teenage student in school while knowingly infected with HIV remained jailed Tuesday as police investigated another claim of similar misconduct by the man involving a different student.

Prosecutors in St. Clair County east of St. Louis charged Mario L. Hunt, 35, on Monday with felony counts of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse and “transmitting” HIV through intimate contact during the first half of 2011, when the student was 17. The transmission charge means a defendant merely exposed a victim to the virus that causes AIDS, not necessarily causing actual infection.

Hunt, who also served as the high school’s boy’s assistant track coach and athletic trainer, remains on the district’s payroll, pending a June 10 meeting where the school board will consider his employment status, Ryan said. Ryan said Hunt frequently has helped with prom and homecoming events and that “all of the kids certainly seemed to like him.”

“You always think something like this isn’t going to happen here and we’d be able to see something, but it’s just so tough to know,” Ryan said. “Realistically, what can you do? “It’s hard to tell what’s going on in people’s hearts and minds.”

This makes my blood boil!

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Teacher Infects Students With HIV  was originally published on zhiphopcleveland.com