Local Digest: Teacher at Southeast D.C. school charged with sex abuse of student

THE DISTRICT

Teacher charged with sex abuse of student

A teacher at Anne Beers Elementary School in Southeast Washington has been charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old student between December 2016 and April 2017, according to police and documents filed in court.

David Christopher Noble, 46, of Arlington was arrested Monday and charged in an indictment with several sex abuse counts and with threatening the boy and his family. A D.C. Superior Court judge freed Noble and set a court date for Dec. 18.

Authorities allege the abuse occurred at the school, which is in the 3600 block of Alabama Avenue SE. The indictment alleges Noble forced the boy to touch him in inappropriate ways and put him in reasonable fear that he “would be subjected to bodily injury and kidnapping.”

The indictment does not say when the alleged abuse was first reported. A D.C. police report was filed in January.

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Noble’s attorney, Edward J. Ungvarsky, said his client “is an honest, beloved and longtime public servant. The charges are false and libelous. We look forward to the vindication of the truth in the court of law.”

The principal of Beers Elementary, Gwendolyn Payton, said in a letter to parents that she first learned of the allegations from police in January and that Noble was put on leave on Jan. 16 and has not been allowed at any school facility.

— Peter Hermann

Two men died after stabbing in Northeast

Two men died after a stabbing Monday afternoon in Northeast Washington, D.C. police said.

One of the victims died at a hospital Monday. The second also died of his wounds, although it was not immediately clear when, Officer Sean Hickman, a D.C. police spokesman, said Tuesday.

Police had not released the name of either victim late Tuesday, and Hickman said the circumstances of the incident were not known. He said the matter remained under investigation.

The stabbings were reported about 4 p.m. Monday in the 300 block of Eastern Avenue NE. The site is a relatively secluded residential area near the easternmost point of the District.

— Martin Weil

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