On Thursday July 27, 2017 detectives from the Walla Walla County Sheriff’s Office, and several regional law enforcement partners, served a search warrant in Benton County. Edwin J. "Eddie" Bush, age 29, was arrested for Communicating with a Minor for Immoral Purposes and multiple counts of Possession of Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct
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The $70 million dollar settlement stems from a nearly decade-old criminal case involving a former Kennewick educator. The case will now not go to civil trial.
Toni Ann Reiboldt, 43, admitted to the charges of sending nude pictures and video of herself to at least four boys, and raping another by having sex with him. The admissions were part of an expected guilty plea entered in Benton County Superior Court Wedesday.
According to official court documents, a former Kennewick educator did have sexual relations with a student, and will go on trial May 15. She made a court appearance in Benton County Superior Court Thursday.
A former Career and Technical Education instructor at Wahluke High School has accepted what's called an In Re Barr plea in connection with sexual activity he had with a 17-year-old male student in 2016.