{"id":20417,"date":"2026-05-31T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/authorities-seek-more-victims-after-white-house-band-directors-arrest-for-statutory-rape-wztv\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:04:52","slug":"authorities-seek-more-victims-after-white-house-band-directors-arrest-for-statutory-rape-wztv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/authorities-seek-more-victims-after-white-house-band-directors-arrest-for-statutory-rape-wztv\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities seek more victims after White House Band director&#039;s arrest for statutory rape &#8211; WZTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now<br \/>72<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>Sun<br \/>84<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>Mon<br \/>84<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>by<!-- --> <span class=\"ByLine_byLineWord__0Gbfn\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/station\/people\/brianna-sorrell\" style=\"color:#2065a3\">Brianna Sorrell<\/a><span class=\"ByLine_byLineWord__0Gbfn\"><\/span><br \/><span class=\"dateline\">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 <\/span>Detectives are seeking additional information from students who may have had contact with the <a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/white-house-high-school-band-director-sexual-relationship-dalton-hawkins-sumner-county-16-year-old-student-sheriffs-scott-langford\" target=\"_blank\">White House High School band director<\/a> accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.<br \/>Dalton Hawkins, 32, was arrested Wednesday and charged with statutory rape by an authority figure after investigators say they learned of a relationship involving a 16-year-old student.<br \/>The Sumner County Sheriff&#x27;s Office is now urging parents of students at White House High School, or any school where Hawkins previously taught, to speak with their children if they had contact with Hawkins.<br \/>Authorities are asking that any child who has information or experiences they have not previously disclosed contact the Sumner County Sheriff&#x27;s Office.<br \/>Stay with FOX 17 News as we continue to follow this developing story.<br \/> <!-- -->2026<!-- --> <!-- -->Sinclair, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi5AFBVV95cUxOYVdZM3FfZGE2SkdkQ0MxUTFKNU9FVDBNbUJ5M2I3dzhxX2RtbGxDRmt4VFpiaC1jUXBTcmtIbGgyX2VnZWdGRDJJRlBKSHQtaVVrRS1BT1FxQS1KcmYxRkdNVmJOc1QwamdPUkd5dnJQZ3NLcDQySERZbWVaMDNwUGh6SnJwT1RCZHdjZEwzX0hhd3pMT05yZFFJYmozWVc0d3F2YVJpX05wMVhCMDFaUWtWNnJhTWxfdTkwZWdvS2RoRDRFMDFRcm43aHBpa003YzJLakp6YVAzeGQ3OE5EdlhnMlY?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now72\u00b0Sun84\u00b0Mon84\u00b0by Brianna SorrellNASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 Detectives are seeking additional information from students who may have had contact with the White House High School band director accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.Dalton Hawkins, 32, was arrested Wednesday and charged with statutory rape by an authority figure after investigators say they learned of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}