LORAIN, OHIO-A former principal at the Catholic St. Anthony of Padua School in Lorain faces up to 15 months in jail for kissing the bare feet of three 14-year-old boys.

Robert Holloway pleaded no contest to sexual imposition and unauthorized use of public property in Lorain Municipal Court. Holloway, 50, had been fired after the students and their parents had reported the foot-kissing to police in February 2006.

Holloway told police that he had paid each student $15 and kissed their bare feet 50 times each in the school's library and gym in order to pay up on a bet over a student-teacher volleyball game. Police said he told them kissing the feet of the students was a mistake and was done in order to make the students laugh and was not sexual in nature.

When police searched his school-issued computers, they found over 400 photos depicting foot fetish actions. Authorities said Holloway was criminally charged because it appeared he had killed the students' feet for sexual gratification and that they were minors. He is scheduled to be sentenced in June. 4-19-07

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