By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
Former Caverna High School boys’ basketball coach and special education teacher Terrence Miles pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal abuse, wanton endangerment and official misconduct.
On May 2, Miles resigned from both of his positions due to a video circulating on social media. At the time, Superintendent Amanda Abell said she had planned to terminate Miles before receiving his typed resignation letter at the beginning of the meeting.
“Following a thorough review and interviews with all witnesses involved, I met with the teacher this morning to terminate his employment,” District Superintendent Amanda Abell stated in an email to Glasgow News 1. “At the start of the meeting, the teacher submitted his resignation.”
Shortly thereafter he was arrested by Horse Cave police. Miles is charged with two counts of first-degree criminal abuse, one count of wanton endangerment and one count of first-degree official misconduct. Criminal abuse is a class C felony and both wanton endangerment and official misconduct are class A misdemeanors.
Horse Cave Police Chief Heather Childress has a complaint filed in his court case that states Miles “intentionally abused a student at Caverna High School in which the [Miles] had actual custody and placed the student in a situation which caused him physical injury as well as causing the student to be tortured by cruel punishment when he used his leather belt to strike the student multiple times on his legs and upper torso.”
At his initial Zoom court appearance before Hart County District Judge Teresa McMahan-Miller, Miles entered into a not guilty plea. His next court appearance is set for May 12 at 8:30 a.m. His attorney is David Cross of Albany, Kentucky.
The Hart County jail reports that he was released on May 5. His bond is set at 10 percent of $50,000 in addition to other conditions — which are not to violate other laws, not to consume alcohol or drugs, no contact with alleged victims or witnesses and make all scheduled court appearances.
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