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John Currie, 63, former principal at Holy Redeemer Catholic School in Kissimmee and at Minneola Elementary School and now a college professor in Tennessee, was taken into custody Thursday in Anderson County, Tenn., Lake sheriff's spokesman Lt. John Herrell said Friday.A probable-cause affidavit used to obtain a warrant for Currie's arrest alleges that the victim, a former student who was not identified, told detectives he was sodomized by Currie, who also videotaped him showering and spanked him naked during a two-week stay at Currie's Eustis home.Currie earned the nickname "Mr. Hugs" while teaching in Florida because he lavished his students with affection. He received national attention in 1991 when he was featured in a front-page profile in the Washington Post. In that story, he shared his belief that teachers ought to play larger roles in their students' lives and advocated that they hug students to let them know they were loved and appreciated.He was reprimanded by the Lake County school district in 1992 for giving a full-body massage in his office to a naked 7-year-old boy who was hyperactive. Yet he was honored in 1993 as one of the state's top 15 principals. He was then charged in 1995 in Osceola County with fondling four boys, but the charges were dropped in 1997.
sounds like this Currie fellow had a couple decades of dominance
