(AP) — A hearing has been pushed back that will determine whether there’s enough evidence to try a Wichita substitute teacher on child sex charges.
The preliminary hearing for Jarrod Alan Acquistapace has been moved to Oct. 16. The 31-year-old is jailed in Sedgwick County Jail on charges that he unlawfully engaged in sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl in August.
Bond is set at $150,000. His public defender didn’t immediately return a phone call.
Acquistapace became part of the Wichita school district’s substitute database in September 2011. He was removed from the database this week, although he hadn’t worked as a substitute in the district this school year.
District spokeswoman Susan Arensman said in an email that Acquistapace had undergone a background check.