West Texas A&M professor leaves amid scholar assault fees
A West Texas A&M College professor has left the establishment amid allegations that he groped two college students. Nabarun Ghosh faces misdemeanor fees of indecent assault and is at present barred by Randall County Court docket from going inside 200 toes of campus, courtroom paperwork present.
A Texas ABC information station reported Friday that the college “terminated” Ghosh, a biology professor, a couple of week after he was charged on Sept. 25. Jesse Quackenbush, Ghosh’s lawyer, advised Inside Larger Ed that the professor really “retired for well being causes.”
The 2 college students who accused Ghosh additionally filed inside Title IX and ethics complaints via the college, Quackenbush stated, including that Ghosh realized these complaints have been dropped after he retired. Quackenbush stated Ghosh won’t have retired had he identified these inside complaints can be dropped. However the felony case in opposition to Ghosh continues.
“Their claims are hogwash,” Quackenbush stated of the accusers.
One complainant is called within the courtroom paperwork, however Inside Larger Ed was unable to achieve them Monday. A spokesperson for the college stated it “doesn’t touch upon personnel issues or ongoing investigations.”
Quackenbush referred to as this a “case of educational extortion.” He stated one of many complainants retaliated in opposition to Ghosh—together with by enlisting a pal to additionally complain in opposition to him—as a result of Ghosh didn’t give her a paid educating assistant place that she hadn’t accomplished conditions for. Quackenbush stated one complainant “tried to entice a sexual response” from Ghosh.
The scholars accused Ghosh of touching them in his workplace when he was “seated behind them whereas reviewing educational issues on a pc,” Quackenbush stated.
“He’s, , attempting to learn over their shoulder and so they’re alleging he acquired too shut and touched them in a sexual method,” Quackenbush stated.
