Cartersville teacher pleads guilty to child molestation

CARTERSVILLE - A former middle school teacher has pleaded guilty to child molestation charges and was sentenced to six years in prison and 24 years&#39; probation. <br> <br> Donald Morris Lovell Junior, who taught at Woodland Middle School, was indicted by a Bartow County grand jury April 25. <br> <br> He was accused of 22 counts of aggravated child molestation, child molestation and enticing a child for indecent purposes. <br> <br> Lovell pleaded guilty Thursday. The 31-year-old will have his teaching license suspended, will have to register as a sex offender and will be banished from Bartow County. <br> <br> The charges involved five boys Lovell knew at the school. <br> <br> As part of the plea, one count of aggravated child molestation was reduced to child molestation.