ALLEGED CRIMINAL SEX ABUSE INCIDENTS BY WOMAN, WHO IS ALSO THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR ALLEGEDLY HAPPENED OVER PERIOD FROM 25 YEARS TO 15 YEARS AGO INVOLVING TWO MINORS
On June 15, 2022, a Floyd County Grand Jury indicted April Bradford on eleven (11) counts of unlawful transaction with a minor first degree, a Class B Felony, punishable by 10-20 years in prison; one (1) count of sodomy second degree, a Class C Felony carrying a 5- to-10-year potential sentence; and seven (7) counts of sodomy third degree, a Class D Felony, with a penalty of up to five years.
In all, if found guilty at a criminal trial by jury April Bradford faces anywhere from 122 years to 265 years in state prison.
The charges are related to allegations made by two victims who were minors between 1997 and 2007, at the time the alleged crimes occurred.
The case was investigated by the Kentucky State Police, who began investigating the case when they became aware of the allegations in January 2022. Special Prosecutions Unit Executive Director Rewa Zakharia presented the case before the Floyd County Grand Jury on behalf of the Commonwealth.
“Upon receiving notice of this investigation, the district consulted with board counsel and took prompt action, suspending the administrator from employment pending the outcome of the investigation and further information being received.”
“During this suspension, the administrator was instructed to not enter the grounds of any district property and the matter was reported to the Educational Professional Standards Board. Our policy prohibits us from talking about personnel matters until final action is taken.”
According to the Floyd County Schools website, April Bradford has been the assistant principal at South Floyd Elementary School, and is also the athletic director. She has 26 years of education background, of which 24 years were in the classroom and two years in administration.
April Bradford also coached girls’ basketball for 13 years at Osborne, South Floyd middle and high school, and South Floyd Elementary, and has been the athletic director for South Floyd Elementary for the past four years.
Violation of trust between parent , teacher, student and the public. She needs the maximum time to show what deviate, perverted, mentally ill people deserve. 265 years sounds good!!!!!
Don’t judge a book by its cover they say, and I really try not to , but sometimes………….and I’ll leave it at that. 😳
I fully understand and agree.
I see how quickly people are to judge! Glad to see God himself appointed yall his right had (jje) I am not saying she is innocent but why wait until now? And if you were not the one to be violated why are you so quick to throw her down?
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the ksp had enough evidence to move forward, the attorney general felt it had enough evidence to win the case and she has been arrested. not sure how much more proof you need. also, i don’t need to judge, i was there and saw it. first hand.
It don’t take much much to get an indictment from a grand jury and The AG needs some clout to get elected into that next gov seat. I can go down an take a warrant out on anyone and have them arrested. So “rex” why didn’t you say something sooner? I was in school and my younger sister around both of these time along with multiple female family members who all played ball as well an didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except when I was in there there was the occasion when people wanted let me express they wanted her to sign them out of classes so they could run around an skip class with Their friends . So I ask again why now why not when they was what 13 when it started? Or is this something else ??
And I’m not saying she didn’t if she did then she deserves the fullest extent but if not the there are some petty people ruining more then just her life! Because even if it comes out now that she’s innocent her life is over her kids life is messed up her family suffers but if she did then by all means throw her under the jail
Rex? Well let me say to you then since you “was there, and saw it first hand” where you an adult at the time? If so you need to be charged with something to and even if you where not of age and still witnessed it why did you not say nothing or tell someone so why wait till now to say you saw it?
Who says Rex didn’t say something and report it? If he was there as a child, a report would have been traumatic. And, let’s face it, probably disbelieved and pushed away because it seems that people do not want to believe that a female could do such things while rushing to adjudicate a man guilty on a whisper. Who says that Rex didn’t step forward to work with the authorities as soon as possible?
That said, the point is well made that people are quick to rush to judgment. I will not adjudicated against either Rex or April and will just wait on the matter to go through official channels, praying that behind-the-scene shenanigans get nipped-in-the-bud before they can flourish.
I would add that as I understand it, April is not the first resident of Weeksbury, KY who was employed by the school boards that has been connected with such accusations and suspended or had to step down from their position.
Let me say that if in fact she is guilty then by all means throw the book at her but.. unlike the other person if we are speaking of the same one this has already went further then hush money and stepping down if it comes out that she did not do it her life and career is still destroyed not to mention the child’s life and her parents as well (but again she’s not a man ) so we are already passed hush money and stepping down either way. If she done it punish her .. but out of all the ones it could have been there I don’t see it being her