Indecency Charges Against Teacher

A student teacher at the American School for the Deaf is facing charges of sexual abuse in Dewitt, New York (east of Syracuse). State police arrested Micah S. Brown after a 16-year-old girl said he gave her alcohol, marijuana and had sex with her. Police say Brown, who is from Oregon, admitted he had sexual conduct with both 14 and 16-year-old girls. The National Technical Institute for the Deaf placed him at the Hartford, Connecticut school for 5 weeks.