Published: June 05, 2009 08:51 am      

Fund set up for accused Knox teacher

By Ivy Brashear / Staff Writer

Jason Davis, the Knox Central teacher accused of threatening to kill 500 students by the end of the school year, is still being held on a $10,000 bond in the Knox County Detention Center. The Kentucky Education Association is only giving him $5,000, and he doesn’t have enough money to pay the rest of his bond, sources say.

Friends of Davis have set up a legal defense fund at Forcht Bank in Barbourville where money can be donated to help Davis pay for his bond and pay legal fees.

A woman who identified herself as “a friend” of Davis and someone who “thinks everyone should get a fair trial” said that herself and another friend set up the fund, and The Times-Tribune confirmed with Forcht Bank that the fund exists.

The woman did not wish to be identified because of “political agendas” that exist within the high school.

She has set up the fund to help Davis because she believes in his innocence.

“I know in my heart that he did not do this,” the woman said. She said she feels like the situation got out of control and the kids who accused Davis “got too embarrassed” to retract their accusations once they realized how serious the situation was.

Money for the fund can be donated at any of Forcht Bank’s 35 locations across the commonwealth. The only requirement is that donators ask for the money to be placed in the fund for Jason M. Davis, to avoid confusion with other people of the same name.