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A former Soldotna High School teacher and union head accused of sexual abuse of a student will go to trial next month, with the proceedings scheduled for June 16.<\/p>\n

Nathan Erfurth, 36, is a former SoHi history teacher and also former president of the Kenai Peninsula Education Association. He was arrested in May 2023<\/a> after a former student alleged that he had sexually abused her in 2017 and 2018 when she was a minor. He was indicted on 61 charges for those alleged crimes by a Kenai grand jury in June 2023, and has pleaded not guilty to each.<\/p>\n

In <\/a>July<\/a>, a Kenai Superior Court judge dismissed six charges of possession of child pornography against Erfurth, but denied a motion to dismiss 42 counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor, seven counts of fourth-degree sexual abuse of a minor and six counts of unlawful exploitation of a minor.<\/p>\n

Erfurth has denied the allegations. Since his arrest in May 2023, Erfurth’s trial has been delayed 14 times at the request of his attorney, Eric Derleth.<\/p>\n

At a hearing on Monday, May 12, Derleth asked for a summer trial expected to take two weeks.<\/p>\n

A trial call is scheduled at the Kenai Courthouse for June 11 at 2:30 p.m., before the scheduled trial on June 16.<\/p>\n

Reach reporter Jake Dye at jacob.dye@cmg-northwest2.go-vip.net\/peninsulaclarion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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