Teacher charged with molesting student in 1990s

SALT LAKE CITY — A longtime teacher at Sunset Elementary School in St. George has been charged with sexually assaulting a student while in the classroom during the 1990s.Curtis William Payne, 59, of Santa Clara, was charged Wednesday in 5th District Court with three counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child, a first-degree felony.According to charging documents, a woman told investigators that sometime in the 1990s when she was in fourth grade, Payne would have her sit on his lap behind hi