A former Hopkinsville High School band director facing sex-related charges involving a former student appeared for a preliminary hearing in Christian District Court Friday morning.
Seth Peveler’s defense attorney, Sands Chewning, filed an agreed order to have the preliminary hearing continued until next week. Judge Cotthoff granted the order as well as reduced Peveler’s bond and ordered him to wear an ankle monitor.
The preliminary hearing was continued until Friday morning, July 21, at 9:00.
Hopkinsville Police arrested Peveler last Wednesday on charges of third-degree rape, third-degree sodomy, and second-degree unlawful transaction with a minor. He is accused of having sexual contact with a then 16-year old student at his home and then in 2017 he allegedly had intercourse when she was 17-years old at the same home.
New details released this week through an open records request also allege he was possibly “grooming” another student for possible engagement in inappropriate conduct, but the police report does not say that he had sexual contact with this student, who was in college. However, he allegedly sent a message to the student “threatening to beat up her boyfriend or kill him.”
Peveler was placed on administrative leave from Christian County Public Schools after they received the police information. Peveler resigned from the school district on May 31.
