BLUE SKIES, LOW HUMIDITIES AND NORMAL HIGHS.
NORMAL HIGHS. WE’LL SEE IF WE CAN KEEP IT
GOING FOR THE WEEKEND.
>> OKAY, WE BEGIN WITH OUTRAGE
GROWING IN WYANDOTTE, AN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VOLUNTEER
CHARGED WITH 15 SEX CRIMES AND
NOW WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT
POTENTIAL WARNING SIGNS THE
DISTRICT MISSED BEFORE HIRING
HIM.
HIM. >> JASON: THANKS FOR JOINING US
AT 5:00.
AT 5:00. IN A LETTER TO MONROE PARENTS,
SAYING THAT MICHAEL BEEBE WAS
NEVER ALONE WITH STUDENTS AND
THAT INCIDENT HAPPENED OFF
SCHOOL PROPERTY.
SCHOOL PROPERTY. >> KIMBERLY: AND LET’S BRING IN
SHAWN LEY WITH WHAT HE’S
UNCOVERED.
UNCOVERED. >> THE PARENT VOLUNTEERS ARE
CALLED HALLWAY HEROES AND THE
PROGRAMS IS CALLED DADS OF GREAT
STUDENTS.
STUDENTS. WHAT WE KNOW THE SUPERINTENDENT
TELLING ME TODAY THAT VOLUNTEER
MICHAEL BEEBE WAS GIVEN A YEARLY
BACKGROUND CHECK AND THE
SUPERINTENDENT SAYS THE
BACKGROUND CHECK SHOWED NO RED
FLAGS.
FLAGS. WE FOUND HERE AT LOCAL 4 THAT
BEEBE HAS A LONG CRIMINAL
HISTORY.
HISTORY. PARENTS ARE DISTRAUGHT ABOUT
THIS AND CALLING FOR THE
PRINCIPAL AND SUPERINTENDENT TO
LEAVE THE SCHOOL.
>> YOU LET HIM INTO THE SCHOOL,
THEY NEED TO BE FIRED, THEY
DON’T NEED A JOB.
>> AT THE SCHOOL, THEY’RE BEING
CALLED TO STEP DOWN AFTER A LONG
TIME DADS OF GREAT STUDENTS
PARENT VOLUNTEER AT MONROE
ELEMENTARY AND CONVICTED FELON,
MICHAEL BEEBE HAS NOW BEEN
ARRESTED ON 15 CHARGES RELATE
TODAY SEX CRIMES AGAINST
CHILDREN.
CHILDREN. >> THEY NEED TO QUIT THEIR JOB.
YOU PUT OUR KIDS IN JEOPARDY.
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE
OF THEM AND YOU DIDN’T.
>> A PARENT OF A CHILD CAME
FORWARD BACK IN MAY TO SAY HER
DAUGHTER HAD BEEN ABUSED.
WYANDOTTE POLICE INVESTIGATED
RAIDING BEEBE’S HOME AND TAKING
HIM INTO CUSTODY.
PARENTS SAY THERE WERE RED FLAGS
ABOUT BEEBE THAT THEY WERE
WARNED ABOUT.
WARNED ABOUT. HE HOSTED SLEEPOVERS AND TOOK
KIDS TO TIGER GAMES AND HER
DAUGHTER WAS INVITE TODAY A
VALENTINE’S DAY PIZZA PARTY, AND
THEY WERE HAND PICKED.
HE OFFERED SOME CANDY AND SHE
CHOSE NOT TO TAKE IT.
>> THE DISTRICT SAYS THAT BEEBE
PASSED A BACKGROUND CHECK.
WE FOUND HE HAS A LONG CRIMINAL
HISTORY FROM THE 1990’S WHERE HE
DID PRISON FOR FELONY HOME
INVASION, BREAK AND ENTERING AND
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE. WHEN PRESSED ON THE BACKGROUND
CHECK, THE SUPERINTENDENT TELLS
US THAT THE DISTRICT KNEW OF THE
CRIMINAL HISTORY, WRITING THERE
IS IS APPEAL PROCESS WHERE
CONSIDERATIONS ARE GIVEN TO WHEN
INCIDENTS OCCURRED, THE NATURE
OF THE INCIDENT, WHAT HAS BEEN
DONE SINCE THAT TIME AND WHAT
CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHANGED.
ALL OF THESE FACTORS ARE
CONSIDERED WHEN MAKING A FINAL
DECISION.
DECISION. THIS MAN SAYS SHE HAD TO TELL
BEEBE AT SCHOOL TO TOP TOUCHING
HER CHILDREN.
HER CHILDREN. >> I HAD TO TELL HIM TO BACK OFF
SEVERAL TIMES, IN THE STORE, AT
THE SCHOOL A COUPLE OF TIMES.
FOR THE DISTRICT TO COMPLETELY
IGNORE THIS IS COMPLETELY
UNACCEPTABLE.
UNACCEPTABLE. >> WE’RE LIVE TONIGHT.
NOW, IN TALKING TO PARENTS ALL
MORNING AND MID AFTERNOON IN
WYANDOTTE, THEY TOLD US THEY
HAVE NOT HEARD ONE WORD FROM THE
DISTRICT OR THE SCHOOL ABOUT
THIS AND WHILE WE’RE THERE, THE
DISTRICT PUT OUT A STATEMENT AND
THEN THE PRINCIPAL PUT OUT A
VERY LONG LETTER, IN PART, THE
PRINCIPAL SAYING TONIGHT, QUOTE,
I WISH WE WERE -- I WISH I WERE
A SUPER HERO THAT COULD RID THE
WORLD OF DANGER AND SAVE THE
COMMUNITY FROM THIS HEARTACHE.
THAT’S PRINCIPAL VICKY WILSON.
DR. KATHERINE YOST SAYS THE
ALLEGED CRIMES DID NOT HAPPEN ON
CAMPUS AND THE PARENTS DID NOT
VOLUNTEER IN OUR SCHOOLS FOR
OVER A YEAR.
EVEN THAT STATEMENT THE PARENTS
ARE TAKING ISSUE WITH.
THEY KNOW THIS VOLUNTEER VERY,
VERY WELL.
VERY WELL. THEY BELIEVE HE WAS VOLUNTEERING
UP UNTIL THIS PAST MAY.
BACK TO YOU GUYS.
>> KIMBERLY: DO POLICE BELIEVE
THERE ARE MORE VICTIMS?
>> POLICE IN WYANDOTTE ARE
SAYING, LOOK, TALK TO YOUR KIDS.
IF THERE ARE MORE VICTIMS WE
NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU TO COME
FORWARD.
FORWARD. WE TALKED TO AT LEAST 15 TO 20
DIFFERENT PARENTS THAT SAID THIS
MORNING WHEN THEY STARTED
GETTING WORLD OF THIS.
WHEN THEY WERE GETTING WORD OF