Trial Under Way For Teacher Accused Of Stealing Coat
POSTED: 8:30 am PDT November 2,
2007
UPDATED: 8:42 am PDT November 2,
2007
HILLSBORO, Ore. -- The trial is under way for a former Hillsboro teacher accused of stealing a student’s coat and trying to selling it on eBay.Elizabeth Logan was a first-grade teacher at Jackson Elementary School when the allegations surfaced last May.The student's mother, Jenna Corso, said she was outraged when her daughter's Columbia Sportswear jacket appeared on eBay. She said she had checked the school lost and found and placed fliers around the school in search of the coat.“The moment I saw the coat, I recognized it, but I wanted to be sure. I looked further and found the seller was from Hillsboro,” Corso testified on Thursday.Logan’s lawyer is claiming an overly aggressive female police detective coerced a confession out of his client.The lawyer described the interrogation as a nearly three-hour ambush behind partially closed blinds of the principal’s office.But the principal testified on Thursday that the accused teacher returned to her students less than 45 minutes later.“She was in tears, shaken up. She said she felt stupid and ashamed. She didn’t know what to do. She was worried for her job,” said Principal Janis Hill.Prosecutors said the teacher wrote three separate statements of confession before police finished the questioning.“I am extremely sorry, saddened and embarrassed by my behavior. No amount of stress should have caused wrong behavior on my part,” Deputy DA Jason Ring read from one of the teacher’s confessions in court on Thursday.The body of evidence should take about a week to be dissected by the court.Logan had been put on paid administrative leave, but she then resigned May 10, according to the Hillsboro School Board.She is facing one count of first-degree theft and one count of unlawful use of a computer.
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