Daniel Cliatt
Posted on 04/25/2005 7:03:35 AM PDT by KidGlock
Teacher Charged With Molesting Student Nearly 100 Times
POSTED: 6:47 am EDT April 25, 2005 UPDATED: 8:11 am EDT April 25, 2005
COCOA, Fla. -- Hundreds of students and teachers at Endeavour Elementary School in Brevard County are walking on campus Monday for the first time since learning of disturbing allegations against an instructor.
Cocoa police arrested a veteran teacher over the weekend and charged him with molesting a student nearly 100 times.
Daniel Cliatt, 29, is accused of a crime so heinous, for his first appearance deputies dressed him in a bulletproof vest. Wearing the vest with his hands shackled in front of him, Cliatt appeared before a judge for the first time Sunday, when he answered the judge's questions.
Cliatt is accused of raping a 13-year-old repeatedly after school, at school, every day for months.
Cocoa police say the 29-year-old, 360-pound sixth grade teacher started by showing the boy pornography, then moved to sex acts, almost 100 of them. That didn't stop until, police say, another teacher walked into Cliatt's classroom Friday after school.
"At first, she walked in and didn't know what she was seeing. But she ran out and grabbed a supervisor," explained Detective Barbara Matthews, Cocoa Police Department.
Cliatt has been a teacher at Endeavour Elementary School for five years and he's worked there for 10. The school district is already planning a termination hearing.
"We have been very, very cooperative. We've spent a lot of time with the Cocoa Police Department in order to assist them in this investigation," said Sara Stern, Brevard County School District.
Cliatt is a 2000 graduate of Rollins College. He's been at Endeavour Elementary School for 10 years, first as a teacher's assistant, then as a second grade teacher. He most recently taught the sixth grade. Cliatt was in charge of 20 students.
According to the Brevard County School District, Cliatt passed every FBI and FDLE background check.
Daniel Cliatt
Man. Florida just sucks. :/
They need to have a hearing? They can't just out right fire him?
If teachers were allowed to marry, this would never happen.
OXENinFLA wrote:
The school district is already planning a termination hearing.
They need to have a hearing? They can't just out right fire him?
--> Fire him? it's beyond firing to me....
Hey, Mon! NEA says he's got RIGHTS......LOL.....
Compare this response with the Mifflin High School response in Columbus.
YOu beat me to it!
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Also, if I were the officer in charge of his bullet proof vest, I would make sure that I accidentally forgot to put the Kevlar plates in.
Whatta swamp. Florida needs quarantined. Right now.
After the hearing of course.
The question should be, why did this 6th grade boy say nothing to anyone about this ? As bad as this scumbag's actions are, you have to ask, why did the boy not complain or the parent(s) notice the boy coming home later than most kids ? Was this kid so badly intmidated or brainwashed that he just put up with it ?
"Fire" maybe too kind. But, it is Florida after all. The year '05 seems to have opened some kinda Pandora's Box...
I'd like to see him fired upon.
Yeah, we are ALL a bunch of child molesters down here!!
Now if Michael Jackson could just move, we'd be thrilled to welcome him!
The student didn't report this?
This couldn't be true. First, black men aren't homosexual and second, homosexuals don't molest children. </disgusted sarcasm>
They should forgo the firing and haul him away in manicles never to be seen or heard from again.
What in the hell is going on in Florida? Obviously something
is terribly wrong. I fear for my grandsons and granddaughters every day they go off to school.
yep
Hint: Most hunting rifle rounds will zip right through body armor.
We are a civilized people, and so we must have us a fair and open trial, followed by a first class hanging ;)
Maybe maybe not. In NY CIty there was a teacher who was a member of NAMBLA, he openly promoted sex with kids but the teachers union would not let him be fired. He spent around 5 years sitting in an empty classroom (they at least had the good sence not to let him near kids) fighting his termination. He was eventually fired.
Why didn't they have teachers like this when I was in school?
Oops. I'm only supposed to say that about good-looking blonde female child molesters.
Yeah, we are ALL a bunch of child molesters down here!!
Now if Michael Jackson could just move, we'd be thrilled to welcome him!
If I hadn't read your profile, I would have sworn you are my sister. This is here solution to every heinous act perpetrated in this country and especially the Southeast. Can't say I disagree in this case.
"It takes a village..." </ disgust>
Openly speaking of sex with children in a school and promoting it, is the kind of speech that should be outlawed, regardless of the slippery slope argument. Some time here soon we will have to draw a line.
You mean, if only homosexual teachers were allowed to marry, this never would have happened. /s
They don't need to fire this guy, he is going to prison. He can't make it to work if he's sitting in prison.
Auction off the rights to be the hangman. That should bring in a tidy sum for the coffers.
They need to give the ACLU 2 weeks notice. Its in his contract.
Being familar with the system in New York, I can vouch for that assessment - it is one of the most difficult places in the nation to fire a tenured teacher. Fortunately, very few other states are that extreme in protecting teachers. I suspect that it is much, much easier to fire this guy in Florida than it would be in New York.
Termination Reason: Job abandonment.
You beat me to it. Amazing silence from the "where were the teachers like that when I was ____ years old crowd".
Hypocrites.
Not in a world with the NEA. :-(
here opinion? should have that second cup of coffee before I touch the keyboard. Meant to say: her opinion.
If I wasn't married, I would inquire about her.
You don't want to give it the chance though.
Perhaps it's because the sewage seems to filter down to the bottom.
I know you weren't insulting all of us. Believe it or not, the vast majority of Floridians are decent. Cocoa Beach/Canaveral/Merritt Island is full of retired military and NASA people. It's not a bad area. Now south of there (Broward/Palm Beach/Miami) you could just saw right off and we wouldn't even miss it!
We're sick of it, too!
Fire - as in douse with gasoline and ignite it?
People, just look at him! The teacher is HUGE...and even if he were not so physically overpowering, pedophiles are experts at choosing targets they can intimidate and control. Shame and fear are powerful silencers. Is it any wonder a boy would endured this exploitation alone, when even people who should know better wonder why he didn't say something sooner?
Blame the criminal, not the child.
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