Teacher, former Big Brother and foster parent, charged with molestation

Teacher, former Big Brother and foster parent, charged with molestation

Curt Edward Carson
By JARREL WADE World Staff Writer
Published: 7/27/2010  9:27 PM
Last Modified: 7/27/2010  9:27 PM

Prosecutors have charged a Union Public Schools special education teacher and former Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor of molesting a 13-year-old boy in 2002.
Curt Edward Carson, 49, of Broken Arrow was arrested July 9 at a Starbucks coffee shop at 71st Street and Garnett Road by officers from the Tulsa Police Department’s Sex Crimes Unit.

He was released from the Tulsa Jail on $50,000 bail later that day, jail records show.

Carson was charged on Tuesday with the lewd molestation of a 13-year-old boy between July 2002 and August 2003, court records show.

During that time, Carson was a teacher for Tulsa Public Schools and was a mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters. He also has been a foster parent, Cpl. Clay Asbill said.

Carson was hired by Union Public Schools in 2005. He worked at Union Intermediate High School as a special education teacher for three years before he was transferred to Union’s Sixth and Seventh Grade Center as a special education teacher.

He has worked at the Sixth and Seventh Grade Center for the last two years, the school district reported.

A news release from the district on the day he was arrested states, “In light of his arrest this morning, Union Public Schools has suspended Carson with pay, as required by law, pending the outcome of the investigation and will fully cooperate with Tulsa police in the investigation.”

Carson taught in Tulsa at Clinton Middle School from 2001 to 2004 and worked at Hamilton Middle School until he resigned in 2005, Tulsa Public Schools spokeswoman Tami Marler said.


By JARREL WADE World Staff Writer

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