Kell High School teacher indicted on five counts of student sexual assault

A Kell High School teacher arrested earlier this summer for allegedly assaulting a student at the school has been indicted.

According to Cobb District Attorney’s office information, Spencer Wayne Herron, 48, was indicted in the past week on five counts of sexual assault of a student. Kell High School teacher indicted

Herron, who had been a video teacher at Kell for 16 years, was named the school’s teacher of the year two years ago.

Arrest warrants indicate Herron has been accused of having sex multiple times with a student on campus from early 2016 through the 2017-18 school year.

Herron was taken to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center on June 1, and remains there on a $50,000 bond, according to Cobb Sheriff’s Office records.

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