Former band teacher in Monticello pleads guilty to sexual misconduct with minor

MONTICELLO, Ind. (WISH) — A 32-year-old former band teacher at Roosevelt Middle School and Twin Lakes High School has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for sexual misconduct with a minor, attorneys say.

Last year, an Indiana couple filed a federal lawsuit against the school corporation, located in Monticello, and their daughter’s teacher, Timothy Bulow, who taught at the school from 2023 to 2025. According to attorneys, the parents’ lawsuit claims that Bulow had a history of texting female students, including their daughter.

“Before he started grooming my client, he was giving multiple girls at the school his personal cell phone number and texting them,” said Tom Blessing, the family’s attorney. Blessing says that Bulow had been texting students for years, and it was “common knowledge in the Twin Lakes community.”

Court documents say that Bulow had sex with a girl, under 16-years-old, multiple times, including at her home and Bulow’s home. Inappropriate touching was reported to have happened in the school’s band room. Multiple times, Bulow picked the girl up from a bus stop before school, took her back to his home t...