State Rests Case in Teacher's Sex Abuse Trial
Defense expected to start calling witnesses Thursday in the case of Cuyler Jay Cornell, a seventh grade English teacher accused of inappropriately touching one of his students.
A Germantown teenager told a circuit courtroom in Rockville that he didn’t tell authorities about alleged sexual conduct involving an English teacher at Neelsville Middle School because he was afraid of what his parents would say. “I thought my mom would judge me because she didn't want no gay children (sic),” the teen told jurors on Wednesday. The testimony opened the second day of trial for Cuyler Jay Cornell, 51, of Germantown, who was indicted on charges of sexual abuse of a minor and sex offense stemming from alleged incidents prosecutors claimed occurred during the 2010-11 school year, the summer of 2011 and during the teen's eighth-grade year in 2012. The teen, now 15, alleged Cornell touched his buttocks and genitals on more than …
