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The Roys Report [Chicago IL]
August 22, 2024
By Sheila Stogsdill
A former teacher at a Christian school in South Carolina is facing 12 counts of sexual battery with a student.
Norman Jermaine Roberson, 36, a former Fountain Inn Christian School music director, is accused of engaging in inappropriate relationships between April and November 2015, as reported by Fox Carolina.
Fox Carolina reported Roberson allegedly had encounters with students in several South Carolina locations, including in Fountain Inn, Simpsonville, Greenville, and Greenville County.
According to Roberson’s LinkedIn profile, Roberson has also worked as a youth pastor at Word of Life Church in Simpsonville since Nov. 2019. A receptionist answering the church’s phone on Thursday said Roberson was no longer employed with the church and they were not allowed to provide additional information.
Roberson also lists he was a mathematics teacher at Fountain Inn from March 2015 to June 2016. The telephone number to Fountain Inn Christian School was disconnected when we called.
Roberson also stated he was the youth pastor at GoChurch from Aug. 2013 to Nov. 2015. An internet search shows no listing for GoChurch in Greenville, S.C.
His LinkedIn bio also states he and his wife “moved to a new area to begin youth ministry in the inner city.” It adds, “I soon found myself as a youth pastor at a church and at a private school, in which I became the middle and high school math teacher.”
Upon the arrival of his twin daughters, Roberson changed careers and entered the IT world, the bio says.