By Associated Press - Monday, April 14, 2014

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A former substitute teacher at a private school in the Montgomery area has been arrested on several sex-crime charges.

WSFA-TV reports (https://bit.ly/1eAVuTg ) Montgomery police arrested Anthony Ray Staten Jr. on charges of electronic solicitation of a child, second-degree sexual abuse and working as a school employee while having sexual contact with a student under age 19.

The school issued a statement Saturday saying Staten had been fired about a week before his arrest last Thursday.

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Staten was booked last week at the Montgomery County jail. It was not immediately known if he had an attorney.

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Information from: WSFA-TV, https://www.wsfa.com/

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