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Tigia M. Finn
Posted by: Webmaster in FE-MV, Georgia, High Schools, Louisiana
(01/23/09 - Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Tigia M. Finn, 34, of recent a math teacher at Stephenson High School in Stone Mountain, Georgia is reportedly being sought by Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana sheriff’s deputies on a 4 1/2-year-old warrant on allegations of her having a longstanding sexual relationship with a then-high-school student.


In a deposition filed in May 2008 in civil litigation over the relationship, Ronnie T. Wesby who is now 25 alleges that he had a romance with Finn for several years that included sexual liaisons in her classroom in spring 1999 and later at her apartment. Wesby’s law suit filed in February 2005, which Wesby’s attorney offered recently to settle, names Finn and the Tangipahoa Parish School Board as defendants.

The September 14, 2004 arrest warrant for felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile, although still active, has never been executed for more than four years according to a Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s spokeswoman who indicated that the warrant had never been entered into the National Crime Information Center system which would have made its existence known nationwide.

Reportedly on Thursday morning, before school officials became aware of the Louisiana allegations against Finn, she resigned from the DeKalb County school where she has worked for the past year and a half.

Since the arrest warrant was never entered into the National Crime Information Center system school officials in Georgia were not aware of her status in Louisiana at the time she was hired.

01/27/09 - Finn Turns Herself In

On Monday, Tigia M. Finn surrendered to Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s deputies and was booked into the parish jail in on a count of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile.

Finn was subsequently released on $2,500 bond.

Reportedly a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office confirmed that Schirra Finn Sr., Tigia Finn’s brother, is a deputy whose time with the Sheriff’s Office goes back to at least July 2004, when Sheriff Daniel Edwards first took office.