Teacher arrested on sex-assault charges

Keith Paul

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2001 | 11:08 a.m.

A Clark County middle school teacher was arrested Monday and accused of having sex with a former student just two days after another area school employee was arrested for having sexual contact with a student.

Newell Leavitt, 48, a teacher at Lyal Burkholder Middle School in Henderson, was booked into the Clark County jail Monday on four counts of sexual assault, Sgt. Ken Young, a Clark County school police spokesman, said.

Leavitt is accused of having sex with a former student, a 15-year-old girl currently in high school. Leavitt, of North Las Vegas, is accused of having sexual contact with the girl in a classroom at the school Thursday, Young said.

A friend of the the student notified police with information about the contact between Leavitt and the student.

Leavitt was held this morning in the jail on $60,000 bond.

School police arrested 30-year-old Michael Vicious Saturday on one count of sexual conduct between employees of schools and a pupil. Vicious is the theater manager at the Las Vegas Performing Arts Academy, Young said.