A Fort Collins highschool trainer has been charged with sexually assaulting a scholar and police imagine there might be extra victims.
Brendan Gallagher, a 49-year-old media and video manufacturing trainer at Fossil Ridge Excessive College, was arrested final week and charged with two felonies: illegal sexual contact together with coercing a baby and sexual assault of a kid by one ready of belief, in response to courtroom data.
A Poudre College District workers member reported Gallagher to the Division of Human Providers in Might after Gallagher instructed the workers member he had beforehand had an inappropriate relationship with a scholar, in response to a information launch from the Fort Collins Police Division.
The sufferer was a scholar in Gallagher’s class in 2015, police mentioned.
Gallagher was placed on administrative depart instantly after the varsity district acquired the preliminary allegation in Might, police mentioned within the launch.
Investigators mentioned Gallagher beforehand taught in Berthoud and they’re involved there could also be extra victims.
Anybody who believes they’re a sufferer or who has data associated to the case ought to contact Detective Brandon Wootan at bwootan@fcgov.com.
Gallagher was arrested Thursday and posted a $200,000 bond on Friday, in response to courtroom data. He’s subsequent scheduled to seem in courtroom on Thursday.
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