The Lakeland Gazette tried numerous times to reach Pastor Scott and Cindy Thomas and they have refused to call us back.
The FACTS on Corey Hodges
2007—–
Arrested for possession of Marijuana and introducing a controlled substance into Tomoka Correctional Institution where he worked as a correctional officer. (Feb 2008)
Charges were dropped after he completed a diversion program
Hodges gave up his correctional officer certification in 2009.
2008 ——
Hodges began working as a child specialist at Stewart-Marchmen – A Behavioral Healthcare. (Feb 2008) and was fired when the information arose about girls coming forward.
** 15-year-old girl – allegedly molested twice by Hodges.
Hodges told her not to tell
On the 3rd occasion, the same girl broke her finger playing basketball and Hodges drove her home ALONE to Halifax hospital against policy to go alone where he allegedly sexually assaulted her again.
** 17 and 18-year-old girls said he would often ask for hugs and make comments about other girls’ bodies and tell them they should be strippers because of their bodies.
** A 14-year-old girl said she was ordered to get out of bed while going through heroin withdrawal. She told him she was naked. She got up and tried to cover herself with blankets when Hodges ordered her to drop it.
A Sheriff’s Office report said Hodges is seen on video going into a girl’s bedroom and touching her inappropriately.
Hodges denied these allegations, but video footage shows him entering the girls’ rooms alone which was again against policy.
He was arrested by the Flagler Country Sheriff’s office and taken to jail
2013- He worked at a residential adolescent program (RAP) where he allegedly molested a boy during a strip search.
2018- 2019 – Hodges was hired by Flagler Schools as a substitute teacher. Hodges’s job as a substitute, he lied on his application about his criminal history answering no to having a prior arrest or convictions which is the reason he was fired once they found out.
2019 – Hodges was an active substitute teacher at both Indian Trails Middle School and Bunnel Elementary School and was FIRED from both.
2020 to present – Hired at Excel without extensive background check, if they did they would realize why he isn’t allowed to teach at public schools.
Hodges is also a coach at Free Life Chapel ……
3.9 million dollars made in state school scholarship funding in 2023 and it’s alleged Excel Christian Academy is rigging the grades to look as though kids are passing and then when they transfer out the parents quickly realize how far behind their children are.
Changed behavior starts with staying away from situations that got you in trouble in the first place.
Many concerned parents have unenrolled their children days after finding out about this information.
We are deeply worried about the safety of other children there.
This needs to be a concern that is taken seriously and just because all of this is in the past, the past never leaves a person when it comes to the sexual assault of a child.