According to a Columbia County prosecutor, Eric Stearns, the choir teacher at St. Helens High School, is back in detention and faces a fresh indictment with additional sex abuse counts after six more alleged victims were found.
When police arrived at Stearns’ house earlier in the day when he wasn’t there, the 46-year-old turned himself in to the Columbia County Jail on Saturday afternoon.
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