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Feb 3, 2009 7:47 pm US/Central

Foster Dad, Teacher Charged With Molesting Teens

CRYSTAL, Minn. (WCCO) ― Prosecutors charged a 49-year-old foster father and teacher with sexually abusing two teenagers in his care. 

Pen Dwaine Standifer, of Crystal, Minn., was charged with three counts of felony criminal sexual conduct. Standifer is a special education teacher at North View Junior High in Brooklyn Park, Minn. 

According to the criminal complaint, police were called to a gas station on Dec. 30, on a report of sexual abuse.  When they arrived, they found a teen, 15, who said he ran from his foster father's house after Standifer, the teen's foster father, molested him.

The teen told police that on Dec. 28, he and Standifer smoked marijuana together, talked about having sex with both men and women and talked about how Standifer used to be a stripper. The teen said Standifer then massaged him with oils, kissed him and performed oral sex on the teen.

After searching the house, police found 140 grams of marijuana and a red pouch containing numerous lotions, which the teen said Standifer used on him.

Police also talked to several other foster children who had lived in the house.  One man, now 19, had filed a report in 2006, saying that Standifer had molested him after the two smoked marijuana together in late 2005.

Another former foster child of Standifer's said Standifer often smoked marijuana in the house. 

Standifer is charged with one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for the incident in December.  He is also charged with second-degree and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct for the 2005 incident.

If convicted on all counts, he faces up to 65 years in prison and a $95,000 fine.

The Osseo School District has placed Standifer on paid administrative leave, pending the outcome of the investigation.

Standifer is currently in custody and unavailable for comment.

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