Leftist Utah art teacher charged with sexual abuse of 12-year-old female student

On Friday, Grand County School District, Utah, art teacher Robert Bruce Hucko, 70, was formally charged with a second-degree felony of sexual assault for allegedly inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl in August. He frequently made left-wing posts online.  

Court documents obtained by KSL state that on August 1, 2023, "Hucko entered [the 12-year-old's] home while her parents were not present and remained there."  

"Hucko showed the children an art book, and the victim then went to show Hucko the family art room," the documents noted. "While in the hallway, Hucko smacked the victim's butt."

During the police interview in August, the young girl revealed that Hucko had made her uncomfortable by "rubbing her shoulders as she was working on a project while at school," police revealed at the time. "This is a serious sexual felony against a child. The fact that the suspect entered and remained in a home with no parents present expresses a certain aspect of daring on his part. The suspect is also a teacher with access and trust to a multitude of children in the community."

The outlet notes that Hucko was listed as an art coach at the Helen M. Knight Elementary School since it opened and with the Grand County School district for nearly 20 years. He was placed on suspension after being arrested in August, before the school year started. 

Hucko would often post left-wing and anti-Christian sentiments on his Facebook account. On one such occasion, Hucko posted a rant from the far-left organization, Occupy Democrats, when Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp passed a voter ID law.  

 

The post that Hucko shared comparing a voter ID law to Jim Crow read, "All white men, signing a bill to keep Black folks from voting, under a painting of an infamous slave plantation." 

Another post the art teacher shared suggested white Evangelical Christians were like the KKK for not being supportive of Barack Obama.  


The post, in the form of an open letter to Evangelical Christians, was also replied to by Hucko, who wrote, "Thanks for posting this Chris Goetze. I read it, concur and would join his church, but I don't do that. I'm more a "good without god" sort of person, but he solidly states what I feel those who would berate Barrack and then transgress with Trump." 

In response to J6, Hucko also stated in a post online that Republicans "who would seek to destroy American Democracy" if they were given the chance was "not a small number of the citizenry." 



Another post shared by Hucko insisted that Republicans "Cut the bullsh*t" surrounding Trump.



The post read, "Trump's dangerously mentally ill, a career criminal, a fascist wanna-be dictator, a brazen corporate raider that intended from the git-go to plunder the nation for the rich, a pathological liar that intended from the git-go to break his every campaign promise to help his base, and no Christian."

Hucko also replied to the post, referring to the original poster, "A good summation in my view. And thanks Don Keller for sending it along. We'll both get hate mail now, brother."

According to Hucko's website, he first started teaching elementary school students in 1978, when he was assigned to lead a workshop for the Utah Arts Council at Montezuma Creek Elementary School in San Juan County, Utah. He noted that at the end of the workshop, the principal of the school helped him find a job in the area.  

He wrote on his website that the principal asked, “The kids like you, you seem to like them, the kindergarten teacher needs an aide. Do you want the job?”  

Hucko wrote that he "listened to the voice of serendipity and accepted” when he first got the job.  

"Student safety is our top priority and we are fully cooperating with law enforcement," Grand County School District Superintendent Taryn Kay said after his arrest in August.