A Chatham County magistrate recently issued a criminal summons for a suspended educator of the Willow Oak Montessori School over allegations of improper sexual contact.

A release shared by the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday said 44-year-old Kelli Anne Bee faces two counts of felony indecent liberties with a student by a teacher and two counts of misdemeanor sexual battery after an investigation by its office. The incidents, which the alert said involved two separate students at the public charter school in Pittsboro, happened when Bee was employed at the school during the spring of 2024.

A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office confirmed the magistrate issued the criminal summons for Bee on Friday, March 21.

Bee is suspended from teaching amid a school investigation, according to the sheriff’s office, but was listed on Willow Oak Montessori’s website as of Tuesday. She joined the school in 2023 and holds the title of Adolescent Program Director, after having worked at the Montessori Community School in Durham for the five years prior. Willow Oak teaches kindergarten through 8th grade and offers pre-K services after starting operations in 2013.

Bee, who is listed as a Chapel Hill resident, is scheduled to initially appear in Chatham County District Court on the indecent liberty charges on April 14.

 

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