November 26, 2019
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Judgment and sentencing for a former Sweetwater science teacher and coach has been postponed until December.
The bench trial for 30-Year-old Cameron David Gladd was held in Beckham County in September where he pleaded no contest to five charges involving sexual conduct with two students when he was a teacher. Another three charges were dismissed.
Gladd was in court last week where his case was continued until Monday, December 9 in Beckham County District Court. The sentencing will begin at 2:30 pm.
He pled no contest to rape by instrumentation and soliciting sexual conduct or communication with a minor by use of technology, two counts of forcible oral sodomy and one count of sexual battery. Dismissed were the felonies of violation of an Oklahoma statute of using a computer and two counts of sexual battery.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Gladd – who had been a teacher at Sweetwater since August of 2017 and was listed on the high school website as the Science teacher and Assistant Girls/Boys Coach – participated in inappropriate text messages with a 17-year-old student and then met the student, privately, on at least three occasions. At least one sexual incident happened at school, according to the court document.
In speaking to investigators, the student alleged that she and Gladd exchanged inappropriate sexual messages over social media and that some messages arrived on the victim’s phone while in Cameron’s class.
Gladd is also awaiting judgment and sentencing in Pottawatomie County on two counts of forcible sodomy involving one of the same girls named in two of eight felony counts in Beckham County while the two were in Pottawatomie County with the Sweetwater track team participating in a regional track meet.
Those two charges are scheduled for disposition on December 19 at 9 am in Shawnee.
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