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Court: School District Not Liable for Sexual Abuse
CHICAGO (AP) -- An appellate court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a central Illinois school district can't be held responsible for the behavior a former teacher who was convicted of sexually abusing students.

On Friday, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld U.S. District Court Judge Michael McCuskey's June ruling on Jon White's case.

White pleaded guilty last year to sexually abusing eight girls at an Urbana elementary school and two at a school in Normal.

He is serving a 60-year prison sentence.

The appellate court said Normal-based Unit 5 school district could not be held liable for White's behavior, including the injury of one of the student.s

White was arrested in 2007. He taught at Colene Hoose Elementary School in Normal, but was forced to resign in April 2005.

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