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A former East High School wrestling coach will face trial this summer, accused of having sex with a student.

Bryant Richard no longer works for the Wichita public schools and will go to trial on a charge of "unlawful sexual relations" with a senior.

Richard, who also worked as a paraprofessional teaching aide at the school, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday morning before Sedgwick County District Judge Ben Burgess.

Kansas law prohibits people who work in positions of authority in a school from having sexual relations with students from the same institution.

Burgess set a tentative date of July 8 for Richard's trial following testimony at a preliminary hearing.

The teenage daughters of Stephen and Linda Schneider said the Christmas decorations are still up at their Haysville home.

"We won't open the presents until both our parents are there," 16-year-old Zoyie said Thursday after learning her father will return home from jail today. Her mother remains in federal custody.

Stephen Schneider, a former doctor, and his wife were arrested the week before Christmas and charged in a 34-count criminal indictment related to the prescribing of painkillers at their clinic.

The girls, Zoyie and 15-year-old Gina, whom the Schneiders adopted from Romania when they were in preschool, sat in the federal courthouse in Wichita on Thursday and watched a judge sign an order to release Stephen Schneider. Schneider winked at them as he entered the courtroom in shackles.

Schneider, 54, could be released from the Butler County Jail this morning. As part of the order Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Don Bostwick required that Schneider wear a global positioning system device.