Senate candidate faces probe into allegation of inappropriate relationship with former student
COLUMBIA --- The state’s top law enforcement agency is investigating an allegation of forcible fondling by a candidate for the state Senate.
Democrat Mike Fanning of Great Falls allegedly had an “inappropriate relationship” with a female student at Estill High School while he was a Hampton County teacher in 1993, according to a police report filed last month with the Hampton sheriff’s office.
Fanning, 49, a former teacher who defeated incumbent state Sen. Creighton Coleman of Winnsboro in the June Democratic primary, has not been charged with a crime. However, the State Law Enforcement Division has accepted the Hampton sheriff’s request to look into the allegation.
Fanning denies breaking any laws, according to his attorney, state Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Darlington.
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