Chalmette special education teacher gets out on $10,000 bond after booked Jan. 5 with indecent behavior with a juvenile over emails sent to a teen-ager who is a former student of his

A special education teacher at a Chalmette elementary school has gotten out on a $10,000 bond after being booked Jan. 5 with indecent behavior with a juvenile over emails and texts he exchanged with a teen-ager who is a former student, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

David C. Kimberly, 59, 2317 Gen. Pershing St., New Orleans, was released from St. Bernard Parish Prison on the $10,000 bond set Monday by state District Judge Robert Buckley.
Kimberly has been teaching in St. Bernard Parish since 2012 and is assigned to Lacoste Elementary School in Chalmette, where he teaches about 15 special education students, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

He said St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office detectives began an investigation of Kimberly after being contacted by authorities in a Tennessee town who said a woman living there had filed a complaint after finding inappropriate emails on her juvenile son’s computer from a former teacher.

The teacher had set up an email account under a fake name, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

Kimberly, who taught the boy – who is autistic – several years ago, had been exchanging emails and texts with him as recently as early December last year, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

Kimberly was booked with indecent behavior with a juvenile, a felony, because of the content of the emails between him and the former student, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

An investigation is continuing, the sheriff said.