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Tennessee school board member charged after calling teenage girl ‘hot’

The Guardian · May 22, 2026, 9:00 AM

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Keith Ervin, 59, was charged with assault after he told a student ‘God – you’re hot’ at a public meeting in April. An east Tennessee school board member who told a teenage girl, “God – you’re hot,” on video at a public meeting in April has been charged with assault.State prosecutors on 18 May charged 59-year-old Keith Ervin under a Tennessee statute that outlaws “intentionally or knowingly [causing] physical contact with another [that] a reasonable person would regard … as extremely offensive or provocative”. Continue reading...

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