CAIRO — An investigation into a Grady County school teacher who resigned earlier this week did not find evidence of sexual misconduct.

Ronald Evans, former science and social studies teacher at Shiver Elementary School, submitted his resignation Monday following unspecified allegations of misconduct toward a student. Grady County school officials say the allegations Evans resigned over were not sexual in nature.

Following Evans’ resignation, a separate allegation was brought forth Wednesday evening, this time alleging that Evans had touched a female student sexually inappropriately.

Redell Walton, school system police chief, contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Thursday morning with a request to look into the allegations.

A specialized forensic interviewer with the South Georgia Judicial Circuit spoke with the student in Bainbridge Friday morning and concluded there was no evidence of a prosecutable crime.

“When the interviewer is telling you there’s nothing there according to the child, there’s nothing there,” Walton said. “There’s nothing you can pursue.”

Though this investigation ultimately did not uncover evidence of sexual misconduct, Walton said he believed anyone in the school system who desires to hurt children should be punished.

“If there are bad apples out there, let’s weed them out, prosecute them and get rid of them,” he said.

Evans had been teaching at Shiver since 2015 after having spent six years at Washington Middle School. He had previously taught at Shiver between 2002 and 2006 before leaving to take a job in construction.

Superintendent Kermit Gilliard said Evans had no previous offenses on his personnel file.

The Grady County Board of Education accepted Evans’ resignation Wednesday night.