Did School District Ignore Warning About Band Teacher Fondling Students?

August 22, 2012 12:00 AM " CHICAGO (CBS) - A school custodian was speaking out Wednesday, accusing officials at West Aurora School District 129 of failing to protect students from a predatory band teacher.

Earlier this year, Stephen Orland was sentenced to 12 years in prison for fondling students. Prosecutors said Orland, who knew the girls since they were freshmen at West Aurora High School, sent them thousands of texts and dropped notes and letters in their lockers during school. In pleading guilty, he admitted that he arranged to meet the girls in a band storage room on separate occasions, where he abused them.

CBS 2′s Dave Savini investigates claims Orland could have been stopped long before his arrest in May 2011.

Leon Smith, a now-retired custodian at West Aurora High School, said he tried to stop Steve Orland a year before he was arrested.

Smith, who had been employed at the school for nearly 30 years, said he tried to do the right thing, and said he reported seeing Orland with a female student.

“What really made me mad is when i turned him in, they didn’t take him out,” said Smith talking about how school officials handled his reporting "

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