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Teacher In memory of Timothy charged with sex abuse By DARIA SOKOLOVA
dsokolova@shawmedia.com and KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Police said Friday that they expect additional charges against a local substitute teacher accused of having inappropriate contact with two students at a DeKalb School District 428 school this week. Andrew J. Arison, 36, of the 1700 block of Maness Court in Sycamore was arrested Thursday by DeKalb police and charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse. If convicted, he could face probation or three to seven years in prison. He was remained in custody Friday on $500,000 bond. According to court records, Andrew J. Arison had inappropriate contact Arison with two children younger than 13 Wednesday. Both children were in an early childhood program at Huntley Middle School. District 428 Superintendent Doug Moeller said a witness saw the conduct and reported it. “It’s obviously very disturbing,” he said. “The safety of our students is our primary concern.” In an interview with police after he was arrested, Arison admitted to the inappropriate contact, DeKalb police Lt. Bob Redel said. Redel said DeKalb and Sycamore police are reaching out to parents and talking to children who were in contact with Arison. Police said in a news release they also searched Arison’s home. “We believe there are more victims and we are looking into it right now,” Redel said.
TEACHER WAS IN MANY SCHOOLS Arison has been a teacher in the area for a decade and has substituted at many local schools, records show. Genoa-Kingston School District 424 hired him in 2005 as a fifth-grade teacher at Genoa Elementary School, district documents show. Arison resigned in June 2008, according to school board records. District 424 Superintendent Joe Burgess said Arison had not substituted in Genoa schools since resigning in 2008. Burgess was not aware of any prior complaints or issues with Arison. “The first time I have ever heard his name was today,” Burgess said.
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Sue Hipple knits red hats March 3 in her Waterman home for hospitals to distribute to newborns in memory of her son Timothy Hipple, who was born with tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect, on June 18, 1983, and died about two months later. The Little Hats, Big Hearts program that Hipple makes the hats for is run by the American Heart Association. Watch a video about the program at Daily-Chronicle.com.
Waterman woman knits for Little Hats, Big Hearts By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com WATERMAN – Sue Hipple learned a lot the summer after her son Timothy died. She learned about unconditional love and strength. Now, she hopes to use little red knitted hats to teach other people about the congenital heart defects that ended Timothy’s life 32 years ago when he was 9½ weeks old. “I think it’s part of his legacy,” Hipple said, “that his short life made a difference in the babies today. It makes me feel like his life is not forgotten.” The 32 hats that Hipple, 65, knitted from her Waterman home were distributed through the Little Hats, Big Hearts program run by the American Heart Association. The agency delivered the hats to 20 hospitals around Illinois last month where they were given to new
out hats to most babies she knows. She started this project with the intent to make a dozen, but settled on a more ambitious 32 in honor of Timothy. She said her pregnancy was a normal one. She noticed Timothy’s lips were slightly discolored blue, but it wasn’t until the next day that the nurses told her something was wrong. On Father’s Day 1983, doctors flew Timothy from Kishwaukee Hospital to Swedish American in Rockford, where they said he wouldn’t survive the day. But the family, including Hipple, her husband Jerry, and In her Waterman home, Sue Hipple works on knitting a red hat March their children Aaron and Sta3 for the American Heart Association’s Little Hats, Big Hearts program. cy, got to celebrate Timothy’s Hipple and her husband, Jerry Hipple, lost their son Timothy during one- and two-month birthdays. They made him a pair of open heart surgery, to correct a congenital heart defect, when he was boxing shorts and gloves to 9½ weeks old. show he was a fighter while mothers. year, after seeing a post on a at the University of Illinois at Hipple decided to join the friend’s Facebook page. She’s project, which is in its second knitted since she was 5, giving See RED HATS, page A5
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Lawmaker facing spending probe benefited from donor projects Rep. Aaron Schock speaks to reporters Feb. 6 before meeting with constituents after a week of scandals in Peoria. Schock is under scrutiny for redecorating his Capitol Hill office and flying aboard private planes owned by donors.
an investment in a suburb of Peoria. Schock owns a stake in a Peoria apartment complex involving other contribWASHINGTON – Illinois Rep. Aar- utors. And he pushed for a federal apon Schock has built much of his per- propriation that would have benefited sonal wealth over a decade through a donor’s development project, an Asreal estate investments with political sociated Press review found. donors, an Associated Press review Schock, a 33-year-old rising Repubfound. His relationships with oth- lican star named last year to a mider contributors, which afforded him level leadership role in the House, has flights on private planes and other ex- disclosed personal wealth in a range penses, are already under scrutiny. of $1.4 million. He’s made precocious Donors built, financed and later business acumen a part of his appeal purchased a house Schock owned as since joining Congress in 2009, some-
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times calling himself a real estate developer. Financial reports indicate Schock may have more than doubled his wealth since he was elected to Congress, although it is impossible to determine his gains precisely because values of his assets and liabilities are only reported in wide ranges. Amid ethics complaints concerning his taxpayer-funded expenses and flights aboard donors’ aircraft,
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