MAASTRICHT - A 51-year-old construction technology teacher at Eijkenhagen College in Landgraaf was acquitted yesterday by the police judge in Maastricht of lewdness with a 14-year-old student. According to the girl, the man groped her in the pubic area, but he denies it: "She wants to turn a heel on me," the man told police judge Van denAcker.Why she would want that, he did not know either: "Maybe because I am sometimes a bit strict and think that in the workshop they should have their work clothes on. "The girl's mother filed a report. Because there were no witnesses to support her story, public prosecutor Heemskerk was forced to ask for an acquittal. The teacher's lawyer Weening agreed. The police judge, too, eventually had to conclude that "there is nothing lying that confirms the girl's report."

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