Not guilty plea by former Bay Port HS teacher is student sex case

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - A former Green Bay area teacher is pleading not guilty to charges he sexually assaulted a student.

On Friday, Christopher Wieber entered that plea to counts of sexual assault of a student by a school staff member and child enticement-sexual contact.

According to investigators, Wieber pursued a relationship with a girl he taught in his Bay Port High School biology class last fall.

The student says her relationship with Wieber began when she was his teaching assistant in biology class. But, she told investigators, it didn’t end there.

“We refer to as a grooming process,” Capt. Dave Konrath of the Brown County Sheriff’s Department told FOX 11. “It was slow and incremental, and he established a relationship with the young woman over a period of time.”

The girl told investigators the relationship started last September. Court documents say she confided in Wieber about a problem with her boyfriend. Wieber “put his hand on her knee and kept it there while he talked to her.” The girl told investigators it “felt weird and strange,” but “she did not pull away.”

The girl told investigators on a different day, Wieber “kissed her on the lips” in his classroom. He then said he, “was sorry and that it should not have happened.”

Wieber told investigators the girl was “flirtatious at times,” and that “one time they were in his classroom and she gave him a hug.”

Court documents show in October, Wieber texted the girl when his wife wasn’t home. He asked her to come over to his house to talk.

The girl told investigators she and Wieber talked “before they started kissing.” Court documents say Wieber touched her chest over her clothes. The girl told investigators Wieber, “begged her not to tell anyone” they had kissed.

Howard-Suamico School District officials say it wasn’t until September that the girl told a different teacher about Wieber. Then administrators called the sheriff’s department.

If convicted he could face up to 32 years in prison. The trial is scheduled to begin February 25.

(Additional reporting from FOX 11)