(Walkerton, IN) - A school teacher in the area has been removed from campus and charged after allegedly inappropriately touching a female student.

John Barron, a teacher and football coach at John Glenn High School, has been charged with Battery stemming from a police investigation of a now-former student's claims.

According to police, she said Barron would touch her butt and kept doing it, even after she asked him to stop while attending the high school. In one of the alleged incidents, Barron slapped her on the butt while she was helping to prepare for a football banquet in late November of last year.

The student went to the authorities on January 29th to report being sexually assaulted.

Initially, Barron reportedly said he didn’t recall slapping the girl on the butt, but if he did it wasn’t in a sexual manner.

Barron was at Plymouth High School for close to 20 years prior to joining the staff at John Glenn High School.