An Alamance County superior court judge has granted a motion to compel the Alamance County district attorney’s office to provide immigration paperwork to the attorneys for a former Eastlawn Elementary School principal who is charged with sexually assaulting a child at the school in 2023.
At a hearing in superior court Friday morning, judge C. Douglas Green directed Alamance County assistant D.A. Elizabeth Olivier to turn over all materials related to the “U-Visa” application filed by the family of the alleged victim to the attorneys for the former principal, Daniel (“Dan”) Stephen McInnis, 45, white, male, of Burlington.
McInnis is charged with a felony statutory sex offense with a child by an adult; sexual activity with a student by school personnel; and indecent liberties with a child. He is also charged with misdemeanor sexual battery.
McInnis, who appeared at the hearing on Friday with his attorneys, John Cox of Graham and Lisa Dubs of Hickory, has denied the allegations since his arrest on December 29, 2023. He rejected a plea offer from the prosecutor – to plead guilty to a crime against nature, with a sentence of probation – during a separate hearing in superior court last Monday…