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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Tennessee school board member charged after calling teenage girl ‘hot’

Washington County Circuit Court, a two-story brick building with white columns and cupola, stands behind a parking lot.
Washington county circuit court where Keith Ervin was summoned. Photograph: Google Maps

An east Tennessee school board member who told a teenage girl, “God – you’re hot,” on video at a public meeting in April has been charged with assault.

State prosecutors on 18 May charged 59-year-old Keith Ervin under a Tennessee statute that outlaws “intentionally or knowingly [causing] physical contact with another [that] a reasonable person would regard … as extremely offensive or provocative”.

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