Fugitive football coach Travis Turner was still being paid by his Virginia high school employer days after he fled from cops seeking to question him over alleged child sex crimes.
The alarming news comes as it becomes clear Turner also taught classes at Union High School in Big Stone Gap, and would have had regular access to the student body.
Turner, 46, was on “paid administrative leave” as of Monday — at least four days after he apparently split town while cops were on the way to question him over accusations he possessed child porn and tried to have sex with a minor.
It’s unclear when his paid leave actually began, but Wise County Public Schools said Monday it was spurred by an “allegation that was reported to the division.”
That means Turner was being paid while the school distri

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