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CLEVELAND — A former school dance teacher in Cleveland was sentenced
Thursday to life in prison for raping six teenage students and sexually
abusing two others.
Terence Greene, 57, was convicted late last month by a Cuyahoga County
Common Pleas Court jury that also found him guilty of kidnapping and
felonious assault. He was an acclaimed teacher who helped launch the
careers of many young dancers, including some who performed on Broadway.
“I’m not one to harm anyone,” Greene said during the hearing. “Half of them weren’t even my students. To listen to my life in front of me and
see all that has been said. … All I can say is ‘Wow, OK God, what’s next?’ God knows.”
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Terence Greene.WKYC
Greene’s attorney, W. Scott Ramsey, said his client still assumes his innocence but is “looking forward to an appeal.”
Prosecutors have said Greene began sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy in
the late 1990s, soon after he was hired by the Cleveland Metropolitan
School District. The eight victims in the case were ages 14 to 17 when
the abuse began, prosecutors said.
Greene resigned from a high school for the arts in 2014 and later began
working at Cuyahoga Community College's dance academy for children,
where the abuse continued until 2019, according to prosecutors.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cleveland-dance-teacher-gets-life-pr ison-raping-students-rcna88552
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