ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Scott Staska, a former high school principal in Barnesville who was a finalist for superintendent of Moorhead Area Public حلحلآ»s, has pleaded guilty to indecent exposure charges in Stearns County District Court.
On Friday, Dec. 28, Staska, 57, pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal to four misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure. Fifteen other counts are to be dismissed.
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Staska will be sentenced Jan. 31. Under the plea deal, he is to serve 80 hours of community service and possibly face fines of up to $300 per count.
The charges stem from early 2018, when Staska was arrested on suspicion of exposing himself at a number of stores in St. Cloud and Waite Park.
When the allegations came to light, Staska was the superintendent of schools in the Rocori حلحلآ» District, a job he took in 2002.
He resigned after he was arrested.
In early 2018, Staska was a finalist for the job of school superintendent in Moorhead, but he took himself out of the running after the allegations came to light.
Before Rocori, Staska was superintendent for a school district based in Granite Falls.
He previously worked for Barnesville public schools as a teacher, an assistant principal and as a principal.
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In 1996, a 17-year-old was charged in connection with a drive-by shooting incident in which several gunshots were fired into Staska's home when he lived in Barnesville. The shots narrowly missed his then-toddler son.
Staska left Barnesville in 1999.
