Ex-school official pleads guilty to sex charges

RALEIGH — A former North Carolina assistant principal has pleaded guilty to in appropriately touching a student on school property.

Larry Ray Jewell was sentenced Oct. 28 to six to eight months in prison. The 58-year-old was given credit for time served while waiting for trial.

Jewell was an assistant principal at Southeast Raleigh High School and was arrested in February 2007. Prosecutor Jeff Cruden said Jewell and the victim were in Jewell’s office when he began inappropriately touching the student and himself.

Last month, Jewell pleaded guilty to 15 counts of indecent liberties with a minor in a case involving a male relative in Harnett County. He received a four- to five-year prison sentence.

He’s being held in the Craven Correctional Institution in Vanceboro.

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