There was no accusation that Mr. Baucus had improperly touched her.

Father Hartz, 62, who denied the accusations, was later charged with improperly touching a 13-year-old girl at St. Lawrence Catholic School.

However, the man inside the costume resigned after he was accused of improperly touching three women while in costume.

A board official said the complaint involved a student's allegation that Mr. Joyce improperly touched her during a conversation last year.

As the clock ticked, an increasingly frantic Pate even risked a one-shot penalty for improperly touching his ball by feeling the ground.

They were not only hesitant to eat without permission but also seemed challenged by the food itself, circling the box of Corn Flakes as if it were a museum piece or something that, improperly touched, might explode.

The second charges, never filed, accused him of improperly touching another student.

Fischer, an endocrinologist and neonatal specialist at Kaiser Permanente in Downey, Calif. - was arrested in February 1997 after young male patients accused him of improperly touching them during treatments.