The DeKalb County School District teacher accused of trying to molest a 13-year-old boy in a Perimeter Mall bathroom was charged in connection with the incident, Dunwoody Police officials said Tuesday.
Authorities charged 28-year-old Devin Lecorry Johnson, of Mableton, with one count each of child molestation, enticing a child and obstruction of officers. He was taken into custody Tuesday.
Johnson is currently on administrative leave from the school district, where he teaches at Tucker Middle School, and faces termination as a result of the charges.
Dunwoody Police Sgt. Robert Parsons said Tuesday morning that investigators were in contact with the suspect’s attorney to coordinate an interview.
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Parsons said police were initially contacted Aug. 4 after the 13-year-old victim told his parents a man approached him in a mall bathroom that day and began asking him inappropriate questions. The teen later followed the man into a bathroom stall, where the man asked him to expose himself, Parsons said.
The teen managed to get away from the man and out of the bathroom, relaying what had happened to his parents. When they saw the man again, the victim’s father gave chase through the mall, and notified two officers inside DIllard’s department store, who also attempted to take the man into custody. The suspect fled the mall.
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