By AP/KWMU
Alton, Ill. – Alton High School's former band director must spend the next year under court supervision and pay a $750 fine after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery of a student.
On a day his assistant was cleared in the case, David Drillinger entered the guilty plea Tuesday in Madison County Circuit Court.
Drillinger was charged in April with two misdemeanor battery counts alleging he had inappropriate physical contact with at least one female student. He was fired in June.
Prosecutors dropped charges against Drillinger's assistant, Matthew Banks, who had been charged with a misdemeanor battery count that accused him of inappropriately touching a female student.
The school district reinstated Banks in July after concluding his actions didn't merit dismissal.