Surveillance video shot the substitute teacher pleasuring himself while he watched students walk by the stairwell at Westhill High School in Stamford, Conn., police said. He was turned over to authorities after a teaching assistant caught him in the act.
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A substitute teacher at a Connecticut high school was arrested for masturbating in a stairwell while leering at students in the courtyard Wednesday, police said.
Michael Luecke, 71, was arrested and charged with public indecency, breach of the peace and risk of injury to a minor.
"He had a clean criminal history and he's not on any sexual registry," Lt. Diedrich Hohn told the Daily News.
A teaching assistant initially thought Luecke was injured when she found him on the ground about 7:33 a.m. at Westhill High School in Stamford, Conn.
But when she approached she saw that that the fly on his pants was open and he was touching his penis that was in an "aroused state," according to police.
The female worker yelled at Luecke and alerted school officials, causing him to flee the scene and head to the classroom he was scheduled to oversee.
“The principal took immediate action and called the police,” said Sharon Beadle, public affairs officer for Stamford Public Schools.
Luecke was swiftly removed from the classroom and brought to the main office where he was detained by school resource officers.
The witness' story was corroborated by the school's surveillance video that showed Luecke pleasuring himself while six students walk past his location.
"When we review the video we need to work with the school to identify the kids that walked by," said Hohn.
Authorities will then determine whether the students will require counselling.
Luecke, who is being held on $25,000 bond, is scheduled for arraignment Thursday.
All Stamford Public Schools substitute teachers are required to fill out an application, submit references and go through interviews. The district also checks a sexual predator website and conducts fingerprinting.
"All of that was done for that individual and his record was clean," Beadle said. "He's worked with us since 2009 and there hasn't been another problem."
