DeWITT -- A former DeWitt High School math teacher will be charged with six counts of first-degree sexual assault involving a student, said Arkansas County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Dittrich.
Clay McKewen, 26, of Ethel was arrested Monday.
The assaults occurred between Nov. 2 and Nov 26, a bench warrant filed in Arkansas County Circuit Court indicated. The offenses happened with a female student of the school, Dittrich said.
The prosecutor said authorities were tipped off by a telephone call to the state's sexual-assault hotline.
McKewen was released from the Arkansas County jail in DeWitt late Monday after posting a $100,000 bond. He will be formally charged April 5 in Arkansas County Circuit Court.
McKewen was hired by the school July 9, 2013. He resigned in December, Dittrich said.
State Desk on 03/30/2017