Souderton Area School District Solicitor Jeffrey Sultanik agreed. Stover was arrested in June 2000 after a heating contractor told police he saw computer-generated photographs of nude children near a computer in Stover's home office. He faces a sentence ranging from probation to 14 years in prison. Fraser could not comment on why the early incidents involving Stover were not reported, because he wasn't in the district then. If the administrator is the one suspected of the abuse, the reporting school employee must notify the police and district attorney.
Abuse is defined as serious bodily injury, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation.
The law also states that administrators may not make independent evaluations or investigations to determine whether or not to make a report to law enforcement officials. In court earlier this month, Hatfield Township Detective Sgt. Mark A. Toomey testified that he found out that Stover had a history of disciplinary problems in the district for inappropriate touching after police received a copy of Stover's personnel record, which the District Attorney's Office had subpoenaed. Toomey testified that he spoke with 10 past or current students or their parents, and one of the alleged victims, now 21, testified in court that she told her principal and a guidance counselor about it, but that little was done. Stover will not be charged in any of those alleged incidents, county Assistant District Attorney Mary Fittipaldi said earlier this month.