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Ex-teacher guilty of more sex crimes

OKLAHOMA COUNTY OFFENSES
Doug Woolery: The former Owasso High School teacher pleaded guilty to forcible sodomy and sexual battery in Oklahoma County involving a student. Woolery was already heading to prison for sexual battery conviction in Tulsa County involving the same student.

By Staff Reports
Published: 9/23/2009 2:25 AM
Last Modified: 9/23/2009 4:29 AM

A former Owasso High School teacher who was already headed to prison for a Tulsa County sex crime pleaded guilty Tuesday to two Oklahoma County offenses.

An Oklahoma County judge sentenced Doug Woolery, 40, to a 4 1/2-year prison sentence on a count of forcible sodomy plus a consecutive five-year suspended sentence for sexual battery.

Two weeks ago, Woolery pleaded guilty in Tulsa County District Court to a charge of sexual battery involving an Owasso High School student who was 17 at the time of that offense in January 2008. The same teenager was the victim in the Oklahoma County case, according to police.

The five-year prison term imposed in the Tulsa County case runs concurrently with the 4 1/2-year prison term in Oklahoma County. However, because forcible sodomy is an offense that contains an "85 percent" requirement and sexual battery is not an 85 percent crime, Woolery is likely to serve more actual time on the shorter of the two prison terms. He faces five years of probation after his release from prison.

At a Tulsa County preliminary hearing, the student said he and Woolery stayed in the same room at the downtown Crowne Plaza Hotel during a music convention in Tulsa.

The defendant got on top of him in bed, removed the student's pants and underwear and fondled the student's genitals, according to the teenager's testimony.

The student reported that while at a music convention in Oklahoma City in January 2008, he and Woolery shared a hotel room where the Oklahoma County offenses occurred, according to police.

In March, the Owasso school board accepted Woolery's resignation. He had taught vocal music and stagecraft and managed the school's Performing Arts Center.

He had been suspended in February after the allegations surfaced.

The Oklahoman contributed to this story.

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Some reader comments for this story were copied from "Former Owasso teacher pleads guilty to Oklahoma County sex charges," which was published on 9/22/2009.

	Report Comment Ignatz, A nice place where Democrats hold every office in the County. (9/22/2009 9:22:42 PM) geez!!
	Report Comment redbeard, Stillwater (9/22/2009 9:24:04 PM) Four and a half years in prison for raping someone doesn't seem long enough to me. While in prison, maybe this guy will get some of what he dished out.
	Report Comment jestergrl1, Mannford (9/22/2009 9:30:01 PM) Freak!!!
	Report Comment Thunder196, Tulsa (9/22/2009 9:47:04 PM) People who write bad checks get more time to serve then this guy did. What kind of message are our District Attorneys sending, don't write bad checks, but molest whoever you want.
	Report Comment corntrader19, (9/22/2009 9:51:06 PM) This sickens me. I lived in Owasso in the '80's and 90's. It was a nice town. Everyone knew everyone else. Then when the big building boom came, that brought in the trash. Here in Texas, sex offenders are registered. Sex offenders have been run out of other states and they go to the only states left where they haven't been caught. This guy shouldn't be allowed out of prison.
	Report Comment corntrader19, (9/22/2009 9:52:33 PM) redbeard: I hope the same thing.
	Report Comment Ol City Boy, (9/22/2009 9:56:41 PM) Here's hoping his teaching credentials have been cancelled so that he can't teach in Oklahoma or any other state in the future as well as have sex offender requirements from this point forward.
	Report Comment Bullhead, Nicut (9/22/2009 9:56:55 PM) EXACTLY, Thunder. This is enough to make a person vomit.
	Report Comment noise, (9/22/2009 10:34:44 PM) When he gets to DOC he will be known as a "CHoMo". They will beat the crap out of him. Frequently.
	Report Comment grandson, Owasso (9/22/2009 11:16:17 PM) This "Child Predator Rapist" recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Owasso Reporter, whining about how he'd lost everything, his home, wife divorced him, his own children had been kept away for a short period and how he will be spending a few years in prison and that he'd made a "Mistake" But...not once did he state he was "sorry", only "IT'S ALL ABOUT, ME, ME, ME". Same old story!
	Report Comment okie ridgerunner, Small Country Town State Line (9/22/2009 11:19:02 PM) redbeard he will like it. He is getting off way to easy.makes me sick.
	Report Comment DowntownNow, (9/23/2009 12:28:46 AM) Those that think this is sick need to remember to look at the District Attorneys and judges' sentencing records when it comes time to vote. Only by sending a strong message to those that prosecute the crimes that the punishment is too light, will something actually change. Its sick to think someone in a position of authority is able to use that, violate a child or anyone for that matter and get as little as 4.5 years and probation. I believe the majority are set up for repeat offenses....4.5 years does nothing.
	Report Comment Astro1, (9/23/2009 1:36:44 AM) I hope that the victim gets quality counseling.
	Report Comment D.Boone, (9/23/2009 1:49:52 AM) 85 percent requirment,85 percent crime.Seems we're splitting hairs.Who comes up with these wacky ways to apply the laws? There are way too many plea bargains in these cases. If they done the crime,then they should do the time. I swear,I don't know what rock these judjes crawled out from under. Who knows what evil lurks in the harts of Men. The shadow knows!!!
	Report Comment SS_Hippy, Tulsa (9/23/2009 4:56:07 AM) perv!
	Report Comment mayor_maynot, Tulsa (9/23/2009 8:03:42 AM) Sing it for me one more time now ... Waaaaay down upon the swasaaannneeeeee river.
	Report Comment justiceawaits, Claremore (9/23/2009 9:15:03 AM) If You know anyone in prison, Please print out the article with this perv`s picture and forward it to them. The inmates deserve to know what kind of monster they live with.
	Report Comment ddp, (9/23/2009 9:33:05 AM) Astro1, I too hope he gets "quality counseling" in prison. The kind of quality counseling that is given by his fellow prisoners!
	Report Comment rumockingme, Tulsa (9/23/2009 6:46:13 PM) What the hell is going on? I am astounded that these so called trusted members of society are being convicted at such an alarming rate. This is not only happening in Oklahoma but all over the country. What right does an adult (a teacher) have to forcible take away a child's innocence? I say cut off the doo-dads! and allow that to be a deterent to the rest of the pervs.
	Report Comment corntrader19, (9/23/2009 9:23:23 PM) rumocking: I agree with you. This cat needs to be "neutered." I hope he gets a dose of his own medicine in prison.

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