Not Florida!!!A northwest Indiana teacher took his students to a strip club and gave them alcoholic beverages at his home, prosecutors said.
Travis Lechien, of Crown Point, faces up to one year in prison on three Class A misdemeanor charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The charges were filed Oct. 7, records show.
The 31-year-old has been suspended without pay from his job as a chemistry teacher at Hanover Central High School since Sept. 10. He's been a teacher at the school for 10 years, the Times of Northwest Indiana reported.
Court documents said Lechien allowed the students to drink beer and other alcoholic beverages at his home and took some of them to a strip club in Hammond to celebrate a student's birthday.
An affidavit states several students, some 18 and others younger, said they often "hung out" at Lechien's house and sometimes drank beer and hard liquor as well as used flavored tobacco from a hooka the students said belonged to the teacher.
Defense attorney Richard Wolter said he hadn't reviewed the case enough to comment but that Lechien intended to plead not guilty.
