Bayless Intermediate School teacher charged with sex crimes
Neil Patrick Swyres
(Post-Dispatch education reporter Jessica Bock contributed to this blogpost.)
ST. CHARLES COUNTY - Neil Patrick Swyres, a teacher at Bayless Intermediate School in St. Louis County, has been charged with two counts of sexual misconduct, two counts of using a child in sexual performance and one count of enticement of a child.
Authorities say Swyres, 33, of the 300 block of Golden Valley Drive in St. Louis County, exposed himself on camera online last month, engaged in sex acts and tried to solicit sex from a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
He was actually talking to a St. Charles County detective as part of a sting operation.
Bayless Superintendent Maureen Clancy-May said she arrived at her office this morning to find a resignation letter from Swyres, who taught physical education and health classes to third, fourth, fifth and sixth graders at Bayless Intermediate School, 4530 Weber Road.
The superintendent said she and other staff were “shocked and stunned” to learn of the charges. Administrators had never received any complaints of inappropriate behavior and Swyres in the nine years he has worked in the district.
The charges do not involve any allegations of involving district students or computers, she said.
Swyres was released Wednesday after posting 10 percent of a $25,000 bail. His lawyer, Joel Eisenstein, said his client is innocent and was resigning from his teaching job because he had been offered a career opportunity in another industry.
Eisenstein would not say what kind of job Swyres is considering, but said he was already thinking of resigning before being arrested.
Sheriff’s Lt. Craig McGuire said the investigation is ongoing and more charges are possible.
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Aren’t lawyers great. You pay them and they will say about anything and with a straight face!
I had him as a teacher a while back. Pretty weird.
This world is going nowhere fast. People demand sexual freedom, and this is what we get. Too many people can’t control their own desires, and it’s the innocent kids who become the targets/victims.
I think the world was a much better place when on Sundays, people went to church, the stores were closed, and if you wanted beer, you had to go to Illinois. Porn wasn’t readily available, there wasn’t cussing on the TV, and people used much more discretion than they do now.
Can we really be shocked or surprised at such headlines when we allow the filth that drives these kind of degenerates to be everywhere? I wish we could have our country back to how it used to be.
This is the same idiotic attorney representing the drunk ambulance board member in St. Charles County, calling it a “garden variety DWI.” What a moron. The scum of the earth really know how to find this crooked lawyer.
@ mo_jojo,
You’re right. The world was a better place before the internet. In the old days, kids were actually molested in person. This guy exposed himself to his computer, and the person on the other end wasn’t even a child!!! Booooring!! This is all a direct result of allowing beer sales on Sundays.
Hey mo-jojo.
I remember 60’s and 70’s. You couldn’t buy groceries after 5 pm on Saturday, get gas, cash a check, or buy a shirt unless you went to Illinois where you could buy Penthouse, Playboy, Hustler or anything such as that. You could however go to a bar [in Missouri] and buy a drink as long as the bar cheated and rung it up as a food sale but not a shirt at a store. And the church you went to had a priest molesting a child or soliciting underage sex that the Archdioese covered up. . Yea, things were better then weren’t they???
I know Neil, and never would have predicted this. It is so horrible and heartbreaking. And that lawyer is a liar.
“His lawyer, Joel Eisenstein, said his client is innocent and was resigning from his teaching job because he had been offered a career opportunity in another industry.”
Lawyers get paid hundreds of dollars an hour to come up with stuff like this? You have to have an IQ below 50 to believe it, and an IQ below 50 to come up with it.