© Grant County Sheriff's OfficeKendall Burk
Kendall Burk, 23, has been removed from Grant County High School in Dry Ridge after being charged Wednesday with four counts of rape and sodomy for the alleged off-campus sexual encounters with a male student, WLWT reported.
The hookups, which began in June, took place on four occasions and happened as recently as July 3. Two of the trysts occurred in Burk's Dry Ridge home, while the other encounters were in her car, investigators told the station.
Grant County High School officials reported Burk to a school resource deputy about a "possible inappropriate relationship" with a student on Wednesday, sheriff officials said in a news release.
A message seeking comment from district officials was not immediately returned Friday, but Burk has been removed from the classroom, according to the district's superintendent.
"While these events, of course, sadden us, our first priority - and that of the law enforcement with whom we work - is and must always be the protection and safety of students," superintendent Matthew Morgan told WLWT. "We express our appreciation to those who worked with us to this end."
One of Burk's former students said news of her arrest is the topic of conversation in the town of 2,200 residents.
"Everyone's talking about it," student Carson Deitz told the station. "They sent home a paper [on] how they are taking care of the situation and how they hope parents respect how they are handling everything."
Burk, who has been released from custody after posting $25,000 bond, was placed on house arrest and ordered by a judge to not have any contact with the alleged victim or other minors, WCPO reported.
Burk, a second-year teacher at the school, graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2018 with a degree in human health sciences, university officials told the Lexington Herald-Leader. She did not respond to a message seeking comment by The Post on Friday.
Reader Comments
Aberrant Sex huh? New York includes Sodomy as aberrant sex huh? Seems to me that's where the Stonewall Riots took place.
According to my Webster's ( 1983 edition ): sodomy, n. any sexual intercourse regarded as abnormal, as between persons of the same sex, especially males, or between a person and an animal.
Hmm...
This is why I say the whole thing is really poorly handled.
You, like most people, will reach the conclusion you did and so now that teen is going to have everyone thinking he took it up the ass with a dildo or that the supposed female is a male, and so forth. This is going to be very harmful to him. I do not think this is being wisely handled because he is the one they are supposed to protect, but they are more interested in going after her.
Man, the laws are so stupid at times.
Even if that was a first for him, in this day and age I'm sure he was aware of that particular practice.
As far as I am concerned, the kid did what any normal teen boy would have done which is gladly obliging a requesting lady...
Do a pre nuptiall (sp?) agreement; then, let the SOL run, and divorce, if desired.
Do I expect integrity to rule here? Not likely - but I'd be damn proud of the kid if he did it.
R.C.
Save your confessions for your attorney!!! (You can 'confess' to a priest these days, but,, ironically, if it involves facts like these the PRIEST/PASTOR is REQUIRED TO NOTIFY THE COPS.
CONFESS ONLY TO YOUR OWN LAWYER!!!!
R.C.
Do you remember the Dentyne gum commercial from the early 70s where the guys would all pretend they were drowning so that she would give them mouth-to-mouth rescusitation? Her name was Dee Ann Ryan and she was one of the few 10's I've seen ib my life. To top it off; she was a fantastically good femme; not stuck up, etc.
All of the other high school hotties were jealous; and rightly so! Can you imagine being 15 and supposedly 'raping' this fine lady?
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Absurdity rules these days.
R.C.
R.C.