KS Rep. Mark Samsel charged with 3 counts of battery after bizarre classroom incident Prosecutors in Franklin County charged the Wellsville Republican on Monday with three counts of misdemeanor battery against two victims. He faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine per charge. The charges come weeks after Samsel was arrested after substitute teaching at the high school in Wellsville, a town of roughly 2,000 residents, about 20 miles southwest of Olathe. Videos provided to The Star — by parents of students in the class — showed him lecturing students in a noisy classroom about God, lesbians, sex, masturbation and suicide. https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251472058.html