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Memoriams
Crime
Teacher Arrested
Body
IN LOVING MEMORIES OF
JOHNNIE MAE GODBOLT
Remembering you on this day, April 1st. It’s been 4 years. You are forever in our hearts.
Son, Vance and the Godbolt family.
Discovered
And Charged With
In Water At
Child Molestation
Cypress
Point Park
Last week, detectives ar- rested a teacher and coach for child molestation. He was charged with 5 counts of lewd or lascivious molestation, and 3 counts of selling or distrib- uting obscene material to a minor.
Michael Hike, 33, was a teacher at Livingstone Acad- emy, a school for children with disabilities.
Hike was also an assis- tant football coach at Bloom- ingdale High School.
Hike is accused of show- ing pornographic images and inappropriately touching a student at Livingstone Acad- emy.
According to the Hillsbor- ough County Sheriff’s Office, Livingstone Academy reached out to HCSO after the grandmother of a juvenile student reported her grand- child had been inappropri- ately touched by a teacher at the school.
Through investigative means, detectives identified the suspect, Matthew Hike. Detectives found Hike had shared several images of pornographic nature with the
The Tampa Police Depart- ment is conducting an investi- gation after a body was discovered in the water. The discovery was made Friday af- ternoon.
According to police, the 9- 1-1 call was reported at 4 p. m. The victim is an unidentified man.
The unidentified man was reportedly observed swimming for about an hour before the 9- 1-1 call was received. The man’s body was removed from the water by Tampa Fire Res- cue.
Police said no additional in- formation was available and the investigation is continuing.
MICHAEL HIKE
juvenile, as well. Hillsborough
County
Sheriff Chad Chronister
said, “Those adults placed in positions of trust who prey on our children and victimize them have no place in our community. This suspect did not have the student in his class, but instead targeted the juvenile in the hallway, gain- ing the victim’s trust and friendship before committing this heinous crime.”
If there are any more vic- tims that may have experi- enced abuse by the suspect, parents are urged to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office at (813) 247-8200 with that information.
ESSIE WALKER 1902 – 1990
CHARLIE WALKER, JR. 1929 – 1995
IN MEMORIAM
ARTHUR B. SOARREY 1919 – 1962
JAMES WALKER 1931 – 2014
EUGENE WALKER 1933 – 1989
ANTONIO C. SMITH 1962 – 2005
The Kelley, Walker, Daniels and Soarrey families.
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