(YAHOO) – A former Concord High School teacher accused of more than a dozen sex crimes against children filed a notice of insanity in court last week, claiming he was suffering from a “mental disease or defect” when he allegedly committed a number of the offenses.
Andrew Cowells, 47, filed a notice of insanity last week, ahead of a trial originally scheduled to begin next Monday. Elkhart Superior Court Judge Teresa Cataldo postponed the trial and will hold a hearing in November on Cowell’s insanity filing.
Cowells was charged with 18 counts of sex crimes against children in late June, including 10 counts of possessing child pornography, two counts of child solicitation, two counts each of voyeurism and battery and vicarious sexual gratification.
