The Chattooga County Board of Education accepted the resignation of Leroy Massey Elementary fourth-grade teacher David Daniel at their meeting Thursday evening.  Daniel, who was arrested by Trion Police investigators on Monday evening, submitted his resignation on Wednesday. 

Daniel is now facing additional charges being brought in relation to funds missing from a PTA account.  Chattooga County Sheriff’s investigators were called in to investigate funds missing from an account at United Community Bank in Summerville where Daniel was a signator on an account that was to be used for students field trips.

Another teacher at Leroy Massey Elementary School, Judy England, alerted law enforcement to the missing funds in the PTA account, after she contacted Daniel and he admitted that over $1500 in funds was missing from the account.  Daniel is now facing four counts of theft by taking and was arrested on Friday by Chattooga County Deputies.

Daniel, who has taught in the Chattooga County school system for fourteen years, was charged on Monday night with attempted child molestation, computer pornography and enticing a child for indecent purposes.  Daniel was released from the Chattooga County jail on Wednesday on a $75,000 bond before being re-arrested on the seperate charges Friday.