A retired Moline teacher has been found not guilty of raping a student in 2010.
It took a jury just over an hour Thursday to find Henry Pawlus not guilty on both counts of criminal sexual assault.
Pawlus was accused of sexually assaulting an 8th grade student in a closet at Wilson Middle School in 2010 while she was working on an after-school project.
“The patient told me he’s been impotent for 20 years. The gentleman has significant cardiac disease, diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, and impotence. I cannot imagine he would have the strength to do that. It’s out of my realm of credibility,” Milas said.
“I can’t categorically say that he did not do that, but I would describe it as extraordinarily unlikely,” he said. “Almost a miracle,” he added.
