They found no credble witness? Hmmm seems a lil fishy to me. Maybe its bullshit.

I agree, no credible evidence therefor at this time the student has false accusationsand the teacher is innocent. Wow how that makes the school system look great, a bratty kid making false statments and a person who probably supports his family with his career is fired. If this comes out being true that the student lied her parents should tear her a@@ up. Oh im sorry thats whats wrong with kids today we cant whip our kids anymore and now they grow up with no respect...

How can you have no credible witness yet fire someone??? That just does not make any sense. If there are no credible witness then why terminate the teacher? Read between the lines folks...

Police have not charged McDermott with any crimes. Camp said investigators still need to interview another student, who is considered a witness, but added authorities to date have found "no credible witnesses." WOW and then he has a case at his next hearing...

I smell a lawsuit unless they come up with something credible.

The way I read it, the police are stating that they have no credible witness to the alleged touching, not that the accuser isn't credible. If the teacher was alone with the girl i.e. "see me after class about your test", nobody else would have seen it. It doesn't mean it didn't happen, just a case of he said vs she said and therefore difficult to prove without reasonable doubt. If the teacher was a recent hire he was on a probation status to begin with. The school board chose to err on the side of caution to protect the students. Right decision in my book.

If they have no evidence why are they firing him.. oh this is bartow county you can shaft the good educators out of a job so.the ones with a 23% passing rate can keep.their jobs.. im ready to move back home.

IF this is a he said-she said, this firing will end up costing the school board a lot of money as it should. I find it difficult to believe that the school board would have acted so precipitously without some clear and convincing evidence that this misconduct occured. But if they have, then let the chips fall.

I would HOPE the teacher had sense enough not to have a one-on-one meeting with a student, male or female. In this day and age, that would be just crazy.

It is important to look at what the reporter wrote above regarding "no credible witnesses." The report only quoted three words from a a statement that probably provided more information. The media typically only publishes snippets and not complete conversations they have with PIO's or other people they interview.

In addition, the action by the school system is a civil action and not a criminal action. If you read the article in the tribune you will see that others have come forward about inappropriate situations.

In court, if a witness says, "well she told me..." it is not admissible because it is not first hand knowledge by the witness.

Again, people here comment when they do not know all of the facts and the media certainly never publishes all of the facts.

He was my teacher before and he never seemed this way and he has a loving family so hopefully God will let the truth be known and set him free

Kids have way too much power these days! It seems like they can say anything they want and get away with it, and I feel that this is the result of a lack of strong parenting in modern homes. Sean McDermott was my teacher and soccer coach for two years, and he never acted less that professional. He is a good, Christian, family man with a heart for teaching, and this obviously false accusation has now tarnished his reputation.

@ Katie, well the fact is, none of us are 'good'...evil lurks in the hearts of men/women you'd never expect. LET ME CLARIFY THIS: I am in NO WAY SAYING THIS TEACHER IS GUILTY. I wasn't there so I don't know but that's not my point anyway. My point is this: who would think that preacher was beating his wife and kids practically every night? Who would think a doting daddy (to the outside world) would be molesting his own daughter? Oh, the scenarios are endless and real. You never REALLY know people. You know only what they let you know. You only see what they let you see.

No Supporting evidence....I was there during the event and some of my other witnesses also in class. The person(S) who reported the teacher the teacher talked to me and my other witnesses about how she disliked McDermott before a few days this happened shortly after the accident another strange quote by a few students " Man I hate McDermott wish he would get fired" 1 week later this happened. Another fact this so called "accident" "did not happen in class but shortly after class ended " which is fake nothing happened my fellow witnesses spread across all periods of class reported nothing happening except the same chattering of how they hated McDermott. There are some many stories of how this happen which they are all hoax. Strange how people chatter when they leave their class not knowing who and what listening! I have loads more info- exact names of everyone included in this - dates - quotes But thats no use now.

No Supporting evidence....I was there during the event and some of my other witnesses also in class. The person(S) who reported the teacher the teacher talked to me and my other witnesses about how she disliked McDermott before a few days this happened shortly after the accident another strange quote by a few students " Man I hate McDermott wish he would get fired" 1 week later this happened. Another fact this so called "accident" "did not happen in class but shortly after class ended " which is fake nothing happened my fellow witnesses spread across all periods of class reported nothing happening except the same chattering of how they hated McDermott. There are some many stories of how this happen which they are all hoax. Strange how people chatter when they leave their class not knowing who and what listening! I have loads more info exact names - dates - quotes But thats no use now.

"People WHO obviously have no use..." good grief, you've rubbed off on me in just one minute! :)