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PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Charges against a former Churchland High School teacher accused of engaging in an inappropriate sexual relationship with two underage students in 2015 have been sent to a grand jury, according to the Portsmouth Commonwealth's Attorney's Office.
Jarvis Green, 35, was arrested back in January and charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a child in a supervisory role and two counts of forcible sodomy. Those felony charges were certified.
Green is no longer facing two misdemeanor charges he was originally charged with due to them being filed beyond the statute of limitations for such crimes, the CA's office said.
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"Under Virginia Code, with these types of charges, when the alleged offender is an adult and at least three years older than the victim, such charges must be filed within five years of the victim turning 18. In this case, that statutory time limit had expired," the commonwealth's attorney's office explains.
News 3 first reported this back in November when a school spokesperson said a Churchland High staff member – who’s since been identified as Green – was on administrative leave following "disturbing allegations" made against them in a social media post.
In addition to teaching at the Portsmouth high school, Green also coached girls basketball at at Western Branch in Chesapeake. Chesapeake Public Schools also placed him on administrative leave.
Last December, a detective conducted interviews with two women who both claim to have had a sexual relationship with Green in 2015 when they were students at Churchland High, a criminal complaint says. Both were underage at the time.
The complaint details the women's allegations, saying Green had sex with one of the students in a classroom and had sexual contact with another student in a car on campus, among other instances in his home at the time.
