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| Daniel Acker Jr. |
Former Alabaster school teacher and school bus driver Daniel Acker Jr. has been charged with two addition counts of first-degree sex abuse, police said today.
One girl has come forward to report that Acker molested her in the classroom when she was his fourth-grade student. A second victim says he molested her on the school bus when she was 9 years old.
"These charges are the result of evidence obtained in our ongoing investigation into Danny Acker," Alabaster police Chief Curtis Rigney said today in a press statement.
The latest charges are in addition to the previously filed five charges he already faces.
Acker, 49, remains in the Shelby County Jail. His bond is now set at $745,000.
Acker was arrested Jan. 4 after a 12-year-old girl accused him of touching her inappropriately while she was in his fourth-grade class at Thompson Intermediate School in 2009, the year he retired.
When he was brought in for questioning, police have said, he confessed to molesting more than 20 girls during his career as a fourth-grade teacher in Shelby County schools. He also had worked at Thompson Elementary and Creek View Elementary and had been a school bus driver.
Among the cases he has confessed to, police say, is a 1991 incident, for which he is now charged.
Rigney said the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Alabaster police at 663-7401.
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