Former music teacher pleads to sex assault

James A. Kimble

October 30, 2007 12:19 pm

— BRENTWOOD, N.H. — A former Kingston elementary school music teacher was sent to prison yesterday after admitting to molesting a boy for three years during the 1980s.
Kenneth Lang, 60, of Amesbury, Mass., and Newton, N.H., will spend the next 7<1/2> to 15 years in state prison for abusing the boy, now 36, who reported the abuse to police just last year. Lang pleaded guilty to eight felonies yesterday as part of a plea deal.
He is scheduled for trial in Essex County (Mass.) Superior Court late next month for a similar pattern of assaults — with the same victim — that occurred in Haverhill, Mass.
Lang's victim said yesterday he finally disclosed the years of abuse in 2006 because he learned that Lang was teaching music at D.J. Bakie Elementary School in Kingston, where he worked for 13 years.
"My intention in coming forward was to keep Ken from hurting others," the victim said.