
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 15, 1994                   TAG: 9402150214
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: KAREN BARNES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BEDFORD                                LENGTH: Short

EX-PRINCIPAL FACES NEW SEX CHARGE

A former Bedford County elementary school principal faces additional charges of taking indecent liberties with a 16-year-old boy under his supervision as a counselor and engaging in anal sex with him, according to warrants filed in Bedford County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on Monday.

Aaron Dixon, 36, resigned Wednesday as principal of Huddleston Elementary after Lynchburg police officers arrested him on similar charges. Dixon allegedly molested the unnamed boy he counseled at Opportunity House in Lynchburg, a residential facility for juvenile boys placed by the court. Dixon had worked as a part-time counselor at Opportunity House for two years.

He was charged in Bedford County after the boy told investigators Dixon had also molested him in Bedford County between last November and Feb. 1.

Both charges are felonies, carrying maximum sentences of five years in prison.

Dixon served as Huddleston Elementary's principal since 1987. The school has an enrollment of nearly 200 students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

After his arrest Wednesday, Dixon was released on bond. No preliminary hearing date has been set in Bedford County, said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Randy Krantz.

by CNB