Teacher Faces More Charges
(St. Helens, OR) -- A St. Helens High School teacher who faced eight counts of sexual abuse now faces ten more charges. Six additional victims came forward and a grand jury indicted 46-year-old Eric Stearns on the new charges. Court documents show four of the new victims were students and two were adults who were associated with Sterns through his job at the school. There are now 12 total victims. Stearns remains in the Columbia County Jail on 300-thousand-dollars bail.



