{"id":5609,"date":"2022-01-26T08:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2022-01-26T08:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:44:28","slug":"felony-abduction-charge-dropped-for-liberty-university-professor-william-atwell-accused-of-inappropriate-sexual-contact-with-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5609","title":{"rendered":"Felony abduction charge dropped for Liberty University professor William Atwell  accused of \u2018inappropriate sexual contact\u2019 with student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberty University professor who is being accused of &ldquo;inappropriate sexual content&rdquo; has had the most serious charge dropped.<\/p>\n<p>William Atwell was charged on Nov. 11, 2021, with felony abduction and misdemeanor sexual battery for an alleged incident involving a student.<\/p>\n<p>Atwell denies that he committed any crime and his attorney says the professor will plead not guilty at his trial next month.<\/p>\n<p>    &ldquo;No final decision has been made by the university on this matter and a decision cannot be made until the university&rsquo;s own processes are complete.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AfKruJ-BKSY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfxrtv.com\/news\/local-news\/lynchburg-central-virginia-news\/felony-abduction-charge-dropped-for-liberty-university-professor-accused-of-inappropriate-sexual-contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberty University professor who is being accused of &ldquo;inappropriate sexual content&rdquo; has had the most serious charge dropped.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5609\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Felony abduction charge dropped for Liberty University professor William Atwell  accused of \u2018inappropriate sexual contact\u2019 with student<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-felony-abduction-charge-dropped-for-liberty-university-professor-william-atwell-accused-of-inappropriate-sexual-contact-with-student","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1st","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}