A jury was selected Wednesday to hear arguments in a trial for Adolph Campbell, a former Derby High School employee who was accused of inappropriately touching students there in 2007.
Campbell had pleaded not guilty to seven counts of fourth-degree sexual assault and six counts of risk of injury to a minor. He was arrested in August 2007, after Derby police conducted an investigation into allegations Campbell touched seven students on occasions reaching back to 2005.
The case is scheduled to go to trial on Oct. 16 at 10 a.m., court officials said.
Campbell, who was an in-school-suspension monitor at the time, has been free on a $10,000 bond. His attorney, J. S. Barber, was unable to be reached for comment Wednesday.
State’s Attorney Marjorie Sozanski, the prosecutor trying the case, could not be reached for comment.
Derby police said Campbell allegedly touched students’ breasts and buttocks over their clothes while they were in the school’s hallways and classrooms, according to a 2007 article in the New Haven Register.
The case file was sealed and unavailable for review Wednesday because it involves minors.
Six of the seven students were younger than 16 at the time of the alleged incidents, the Register reported.
