Dedicated Music Teacher

Thomas Crumpler was a band teacher working at several high schools in the Lubbock, TX area. The 44-year-old teacher had no family of his own and appeared to have dedicated himself to enriching the children's lives with the precious gift of music. The progress of the young aspiring musicians under his wing was obviously his first priority. Thomas Crumpler even devoted most of his free time to extra practice get-togethers at his home. Parents felt very lucky to have such a skilled musician teach their children and often expressed their gratitude for his enthusiasm.

That is, until the day they realized their trust has been betrayed in the most ruthless way. On that day Lubbock police revealed that Crumpler was an accused sexual predator. His home-based "extra practice" sessions turned out to have been spent on very inappropriate sex education. He showed his students pornographic videos and had sexually explicit discussions with them. Several children accused Crumpler of forcing improper physical contact on them when he took his charges on an overnight trip to a band camp. At that point police had gathered enough evidence to charge Crumpler with Indecency with a Child.

Unfortunately, as it often happens, they didn't move fast enough. Crumpler got wind of the impending arrest, and by the time officers rang his doorbell in 2006, the accused pedophile had fled from Texas. Two and a half years later, there still hasn't been any progress in finding this dangerous child molester.

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