SALEM, Mass. — A North Andover man and former school teacher accused of sexually assaulting a dozen young girls faces arraignment again after he was indicted on 27 new counts this week.
Daniel Hakim, 38, is charged with two counts of rape of a child and 25 counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14, according to the indictments issued by the Essex County grand jury.
Hakim, a former teacher at the Saltonstall School in Salem, Mass., is accused of sexually assaulting a dozen girls between the ages of 6 and 8.
He was first charged in late 2021 with sexual assault on a student at the Saltonstall; other girls subsequently made disclosures.
This week’s indictments don’t include any new victims but the charges are slightly different, according to a spokesperson for Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker’s office.
Hakim is scheduled for a new arraignment Thursday in Salem Superior Court. It’s unclear if prosecutors will ask for a change in Hakim’s bail status which allows him to leave his home during the day despite previously being on house arrest.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Dreschler recently ruled Hakim, who was on pre-trial, home confinement, could leave his house wearing his GPS monitor. He has to be home, however, between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., according to the ruling.
Bail of $200,000 cash was also set in the case.
Also, Hakim is not allowed to enter the center of the city of Salem, town of Swampscott or “any municipality requested by the Commonwealth,” according to the order.
Hakim is barred from having any contact with children under 18 and he is now allowed to work without the approval of the court, the judge ruled.
School officials, the Department of Children and Families, and Salem police were aware of multiple accusations of inappropriate behavior by Hakim in 2018, when he was terminated from the school and his teaching license suspended.
He later formally surrendered his teaching license in 2020.
DCF had previously made a determination that the accusations were “unsupported.”
Prior to working in the Salem Public Schools, Hakim had been employed by several other school districts and schools.
He worked at the Brooks School in Andover in 2015 and 2016 in a “Teen Challenge” program.
He had also worked as a health teacher at the Shawsheen Elementary School in Wilmington from 2013 until 2015 and for the Collaborative for Educational Services from 2009 until 2013.
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