Man Who Bit Teen Girl At Lake Is Snellville Teacher

DACULA, GA — The Dacula man who was arrested Wednesday after biting a 14-year-old girl's buttocks while she was swimming with her family at Lake Lanier, is a teacher at Snellville Middle School.

Jonathan William Herbert, 30, is charged with battery, felony second-degree cruelty to a child, public drunkenness and sexual battery against a child under the age of 16.

Hall County Sheriff's deputies arrested Herbert after he bit the backside of the Braselton girl. The girl had been playing in the lake at the beach area of Lake Lanier Islands when the biting happened and was reported by people who witnessed it. Herbert swam under the water and bit the girl.

According to school system spokesman Bernard Watson, Herbert has been a teacher at Snellville Middle since Aug. 1, 2016. Watson said the school district opened an internal investigation based on Herbert’s arrest.

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Herbert, who police say was intoxicated at the time of the incident, was taken into custody at roughly 8:30 p.m. He had no known ties to the victim or her family.

Herbert remained in the Hall County Jail Thursday afternoon. No bond has been set on the cruelty and sexual battery counts. A total of $5,830 bond was set on the battery and public drunkenness charges.

The case remains under investigation by the Hall County Sheriff's Office.

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Photo courtesy Hall County Sheriff's Office