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Byline: Gina Damron
Feb. 18--An Oak Park teacher remained in jail Friday after being charged with sexually assaulting two 5-year-old boys at Key Elementary School.
James Norman Perry, 32 -- who had recently been transferred from Key to Oak Park's Roosevelt Middle School -- was arraigned Wednesday in 45B District Court in Oak Park on one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of assault with intent to commit sexual penetration.
Perry has been suspended from Roosevelt and was being held on $100,000 cash bond in the Oakland County Jail. He is to be back in court Tuesday.
Oak Park police said the assaults took place last fall, and Perry was suspended from his job at the elementary school after the children's parents filed reports. But the police investigation did not find enough evidence and he was later reinstated at Roosevelt, said ...