Commonwealth v. D.M.

CAVANAUGH, Judge.

D.M., a substitute high school music teacher, was found not guilty of misdemeanor indecent assault and corruption of minors in a non-jury trial before Common Pleas jurist Nicholas D’Alessandro. This appeal by the Commonwealth is from the grant of his petition to expunge his arrest record thus preserving his record of no prior arrests.

D.M., age 34, had been charged with two acts of inappropriately caressing an eleven year old student while she was assisting him at school. Both Desiree (the victim) and D.M. were fully clothed.

Although Pennsylvania has strictly regulated…