Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, September 9, 1994 TAG: 9409090059
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-9 EDITION: METRO
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CHARLOTTESVILLE - Last year's president of the University of Virginia Student Council has been charged with forgery and embezzlement of $300 in council funds.
UVa police on Wednesday arrested Anne E. Bailey, a fourth-year College of Arts and Sciences student from Suffolk. She was released on personal recognizance bond.
Police allege that Bailey, 21, illegally withdrew the money from an account at Jefferson National Bank in Charlottesville on May 4.
The account belonged to the Student Council of which Bailey was president during the 1993-94 academic year
The money was discovered missing from the account during a routine audit, Capt. Bill Morris said.
Bailey is scheduled to appear in Charlottesville General District Court on Sept. 22 on the forgery charge. She is to appear in Albemarle County General District Court on Sept. 27 on the embezzlement charge.
The embezzlement charge was brought in the county because the Student Council offices at Peabody Hall are located there.
- Associated Press
PTA head blasted for home-schooling
WILLIAMSBURG - The PTA president at a James City County elementary school is drawing criticism from some parents because she is teaching her two children at home this year.
Williamsburg-James City County PTA Council President Mary Minor said PTA rules do not prohibit a president from teaching her children at home. But some parents are hostile to the idea and everyone might be happier if Bonnie Vautrot stepped down, she said.
``It's real hard to say you represent a parent-teacher group when you're saying the school isn't right for your kids,'' Minor said. ``How do you say these teachers can't meet your kids' needs and then work cooperatively with them?''
Vautrot, who taught elementary school for 13 years before moving to James City County three years ago, said she decided to teach her 8-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter at home this year because she could offer them more individual attention and field trips than could Rawls Byrd Elementary School teachers.
- Associated Press
Woman pleads guilty to abducting sister
MANASSAS - A 20-year-old woman pleaded guilty to abducting her teen-age sister in a plot to keep her from testifying about a sex offense.
The older sister, who was not identified to protect the victim's identity, faces up to 10 years in prison for leading her 16-year-old sister to Robert J. Crabb, 28. He was convicted by a jury last week of carnal knowledge, abduction, a firearm violation and obstruction of justice.
Prince William County Detective A.J. Sentipal testified that the sister, who was then Crabb's girlfriend, asked the 16-year-old girl to go shopping March 29, six days before Crabb was to face trial on a charge that he had sex with the younger girl in 1991.
The sister drove the victim to a dead-end street, where Crabb dragged the teen-ager out of the car and into his van. As the sister drove, Crabb beat, gagged, taped weights to and threatened to kill the girl, Sentipal said.
At a bridge, Crabb opened the van's side door, apparently to throw the victim to the river, but the sister said she could not go through with it and drove off, Sentipal said.
- Associated Press
Ex-school to be sold at auction
FORT DEFIANCE - Unless the owners of the Augusta Military Academy property can refinance a bank loan, the former school will be sold at auction Sept. 28.
The owners owe Crestar Bank about $209,000.
- Associated Press
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