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Update: Charter VP/AD faces sex charge


Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy administrator Nichole Thiel is accused of having sex with a Bonner County teenager. In 2006 Thiel was selected for the Fulbright fellowship and lived in India for a month studying textiles. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy administrator Nichole Thiel is accused of having sex with a Bonner County teenager. In 2006 Thiel was selected for the Fulbright fellowship and lived in India for a month studying textiles. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)

A Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy administrator is accused of having sex with a Bonner County teenager.

Nichole Noel Thiel, the vice-principal and athletic director at Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy, is charged with felony sexual battery against a minor child 16 to 17 years old.

Sandpoint Police say Thiel had sex with a male student at a condominium in Sandpoint in December 2015, when she was 46 and the student was 16. The teen told investigators that he began communicating with Thiel on social media before the sexual encounter.

At the time Thiel was the teen’s culinary arts teacher at Lake Pend Oreille High School/Eli Francovich, with AP contributions. SR. More here.



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