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Who Is To Blame An Underage Student Guilty In The Classroom?
A former Elkins High School teacher has been found guilty on five of the 16 felony counts against him involving inappropriate contact with an underage student.

A jury found Friday afternoon that the evidence against Donald Ashley Johnson, 34, of Elkins, proved he solicited an underage female student via computer, distributed and displayed obscene matter to that student, used that obscene matter with intent to seduce her and possessed material depicting a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

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