This is pretty hideous how this monster took advantage of a 7th grader who had come to him for help.
Washington Post reports a former Montgomery County teacher accused of sexually abusing 15 young students was ordered held without bond Friday after prosecutors recounted a story alleging that he faked his death to avoid one of the victims who tried to track him down after she’d become an adult.
“The victim sought to locate the defendant and confront the defendant,” Assistant State’s Attorney Tim Hagan said in court.
In response, Lawrence W. Joynes posted a fictitious death certificate on his personal Web site and wrote a post indicating that he had committed suicide, according to Hagan and court papers. The ruse appears to have worked.
Hagan’s allegations speak to what authorities say was a concerted effort by Joynes going back more than two decades to cover up his abuse. The music teacher was arrested early last year and has been held behind bars since.
The latest court hearing addressed whether Joynes, 55, should be allowed to leave jail on bond prior to any trial in Montgomery. Hagan argued that Joynes’s deception over his death showed that he is a flight risk.
The alleged faking of his death is connected with what court papers describe as Joynes’s first victim, someone he met in 1991 when she was a seventh-grader at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring. The student got to know Joynes and confided that she had been abused by a family member.
“Joynes had become the victim’s advocate and confidant,” Montgomery Police Detective Gary Irwin wrote in an affidavit filed in court. “The victim increasingly felt safe and secure with Joynes.”
As the two spent more time together, Joynes spoke to her about God, told her that he loved her, told her that he would take care of her and eventually kissed her, according to the affidavit. The contact escalated over several months to intercourse.In 2005, when the woman was about 26, she “began an attempt to bring closure to this chapter of her life by confronting Joynes.” She found his Web site (www.bearded
wolf.com) and sent an e-mail. “Shortly after, the ‘beardedwolf’ website posted the death certificate of Lawrence Joynes and also displayed a posting that indicated that Joynes had committed suicide. The victim believed this to be true,” the affidavit states.More here
I thinking attempting to fake his own death is a strong admission of guilt!
