Student’s report led to Strauss arrest

Berne Tri-Weekly News:

Former South Adams Elementary School principal Brian Strauss told Indiana State Police investigator Bobby Jackson that he did not believe that behavior that led to his Thursday’s arrest for sexual misconduct charges with a minor was unlawful.In an affidavit released from the office of LaPorte County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Szilagyi, detective Adam Hannon, who investigated the case that led to Strauss’s arrest, said that this past Aug. 21, a female who was a minor at the time, reported to Deputy Rashaun Sinclair that she had been involved in an inappropriate relationship, which evolved into a sexual relationship, with Strauss while he was employed as a teacher at South Central School Corporation.She then told Hannon that she began an online correspondence with Strauss in the summer of 2008. Initially the correspondence consisted of casual conversation, she said, but in the fall of 2008, her freshman year, the correspondence transitioned to content that was sexual in nature.