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CMS Teacher Charged In Rape Of Teen

Posted: 5:07 pm EDT October 1, 2009Updated: 6:03 pm EDT October 1, 2009

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher is charged in the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl.

Huntersville police searched Ernest James Nichols’ home on Willow Grove Way on Thursday afternoon. Nichols is a teacher at Ranson Middle School on Statesville Road.

Investigators said a teen called the police department on Wednesday night and said she had been raped six times at the home starting 11 months ago, when she was 15.

Nichols faces a total of 29 charges.

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