News Summary

Authorities are contacting local schools in Warren and Butler counties after a grand jury indicted a substitute teacher for attempting to solicit sex from a teenage neighbor.

Titus Wayne Loux, 71, of Nightwind Drive in Maineville, was arrested Friday and held without bail. The Warren County grand jury accused him of importuning, a felony, and menacing by stalking, a misdemeanor, according to court records released Monday.

Loux has a long-term substitute teachers license that is vaild until June 2011, said Pam Tone of the Warren County Education Service Center.

Loux did not meet the boy at school, but in their neighborhood, Maineville Police Chief John Reynolds said.

A 15-year-old boy told his parents that Loux made graphic sexual references to him while he was at his house helping mow his lawn on May 15. His parents contacted police.

Loux was due in court Wednesday afternoon to be arraigned on the charges.

Maineville police and Warren County Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel contacted local schools Loux said worked at as recently as this school year: Lebanon, Lakota, Kings, Warren County MRDD and Warren County Educational Service Center.

Kings Superintendent Chuck Mason said his district's administrators removed Loux from its lists of substitute teacher last week after learning about the allegations.

"Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel called me and said there was a person they were investigating that had admitted he subbed in schools including Kings," he said. "As soon as we found out there was a possibility of a problem we made sure he was removed from the list."

After being contacted by the prosecutor's office, Lebanon school officials decided decided they would not hire Loux as a sub until the charges are investigated.

Loux taught as a substitute in Lakota schools for four days since 2002 and not since 2005, a district spokesman said.

The Warren County education center has a lengthy process substitute teachers must pass to be put on the sub list each time they renew their one-year or five-year state license. The process includes background checks.

"There's a checklist of paperwork we complete from them and they have to provide a new background check, an official teaching license, transcripts from college and more," Tone said. "No one is placed on the sub list until all of those things are in place."

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