A Prince William County teacher turned himself in after being accused of molesting a 15-year-old male student and sending inappropriate text messages to a second student, police said. Shannon Arnold Patterson was placed on administrative leave without pay last week after school officials became aware of the charges pending against him, a school spokesman said. The 32-year-old is a language teacher at Beville Middle School, where police say both of the boys are students. Patterson is accused of inappropriately touching one boy between November 2008 and July 2009 while off school grounds, police said. The text messages were allegedly sent to the second 15-year-old male student during the same time period. The school is conducting a separate investigation into Patterson, the spokesman said. He was being held Tuesday without bail, police said.
