A retired teacher is accused of 18 crimes including the rape and exploitation of a 15-year-old girl inside a classroom at the Central Visual and Performing Arts Academy in south St. Louis.
The victim says 72 year-old Allen Merry had sex with her several times over the course of three years while teaching music for Bunche International Studies, which shared a building with the Academy in 2006.
Merry retired in 2011 but was an after-school provider at another facility until his arrest.