Friday, July 29, 2005

School Bus Driver Pleads Not Guilty To Rape Charge

A Lexington school bus driver pleaded not guilty Monday to raping a teenage girl.

Terry O'Neal, who has been driving a Fayette County school bus for the past four years, was arrested Friday and made his first court appearance Monday morning. O'Neal is charged with rape, sodomy and unlawful transaction with a minor.

Franklin High teacher indicted on rape charge

A Superior Court grand jury has indicted a former Franklin High School teacher on a charge of raping a 14-year-old female student.

On one occasion, she said Massey took her to his former apartment on Mark Drive in Milford, while his pregnant wife was out, and forced her to perform oral sex on him, according to police.

Massey is also accused of raising the girl's failing math grade after the oral sex, police say.

Teacher gets 90 days in jail, probation in sex abuse case

BLOOMINGTON -- A former elementary school teacher was sentenced Monday to 36 months of probation and 90 days in jail for having consensual sex with a 16-year-old girl.

Ex-teacher sentenced for sex crimes

PRINCETON - Former Mercer County school teacher/coach Danny Perkins wiped tears from his face Monday as Judge John R. Frazier sentenced him to a maximum of 55 years in prison for sexual abuse of students in his trust in a Matoaka school.

Forum speakers offer suspensions 'voices'

DURHAM -- When Paulette Thorpe's grandson was suspended from Carrington Middle School for writing graffiti on the walls, she begged school officials not to kick him out of school for 10 days.

She said her grandson would scrub the wall himself, or go to Saturday school detention as punishment. But her pleas fell on deaf ears, she said.

"This zero tolerance thing is not logical in the real world," Thorpe said Wednesday night. "He was out of school for 10 days for graffiti, a small thing that has nothing to do with violence. But it was like he had murdered somebody."

Teacher's on kid-porn rap

A GRADE 5 Oshawa teacher appeared in court yesterday after being charged with sexual exploitation, and making and possessing child porn.

Neighbors Shocked To Find Child Predator In Their Midst

Neighbors of a schoolteacher nabbed in a sex sting were “shocked” to find that an accused child predator has been living in their community.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Suspension rates remain stubbornly high

at Palm Beach County schools. Five years after a national organization criticized the Palm Beach County School District's suspension policies, the numbers haven't changed: More than one in 10 middle- and high-school students still are being suspended from school.

Child molester near you? He may be a respected community member

“Part of his shtick was that he got me to feel like I was a part of it,” she said. “Then he told me that if I told anyone it would hurt many people, especially my parents. So I took responsibility for keeping the secret and protecting my parents. I took responsibility for protecting him too.”
She also didn’t think anyone would believe her.
“You know as a child that this person is an outstanding member of the community. They’re leaders in the church. They’re respected leaders in the community,” she said. “Do you think anyone is going to believe the word of a child over that of a respected adult?”

Former Teacher Accused of Sex Abuse in Court

A former Clark County middle school teacher accused of abusing children did not make a court appearance on Monday after being missing for more than a week.

Sergeant Russell Shoemaker with the Metro Sexual Assault says they had been looking for Mark Horton since July 15.

I Don't Feel Sorry For Him

I've been following the Gordon Thomas sexual abuse trial over the past months and was glad to see that he received another three years for his crimes, on top of the nine years he was already sentenced to.
For twenty years, Thomas, an elementary school teacher, sexually abused young girls. Some of his victims were only 12 years old. His actions , I'm sure have caused extreme distress for these women. The lasting effects of sexual abuse go on and on, affecting the lives of the victims long after the sexual abuse has stopped.

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Teacher Arrested In Attempt To Lure Child Into Liaison

A Queens man who was characterized as a model teacher was arrested Wednesday for allegedly luring a 13-year-old child to meet him for a liaison.

Teacher charged

MOUNT PLEASANT — A former high school vocal music teacher has been charged with sexual abuse after admitting he kissed and touched a female student last month on school property.

Two More Girls Raped At Macheke

Two more girls at Macheke Primary School have revealed that they were raped, bringing to eight the number of pupils raped by a school teacher or unidentified people so far as police investigations intensify.

Teacher faces sex abuse charges

“If this is true, it just makes me sick to my stomach. It should be next to impossible for something like this to happen,” Grindel said. “They are still just kids.”

Teacher nabbed in sex sting

EDUCATION ON LOCKDOWN

Study: ‘Take no Prisoners’ Approach to School Discipline Pushing Children from Schoolhouse to Jailhouse

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Boy, 11, describes sex acts with former Boynton Beach teacher

It started with the 11-year-old boy and his former music teacher slow dancing to Boyz II Men in her classroom at Rolling Green Elementary School in Boynton Beach, the young man told attorneys.

It graduated to kissing and gentle touches by teacher Carol Flannigan.

Finally, during a sleepover at her Boca Raton home, Flannigan took the boy's virginity while his siblings slumbered in another room, he said.
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Teach your children well. What a sickening story!

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Former Teacher Sentenced

"It is shocking that someone entrusted to teach our children would actually pose a danger to them"

Local band teacher back in court

Buena Vista Township — (07/20/05)--More sexual misconduct charges have been leveled against a local teacher accused of having sex with her students.

Former Buena Vista School District band teacher Laura Findlay was back in court Wednesday and there are also other new developments involving her case.

In addition to two more charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against Findlay, there's another alleged victim -- a sixth -- that claims she coerced them into having sexual relations with her.

Because of the sensitive nature of the case, we won't see or hear from the alleged victims. The details of this case are graphic.

Findlay, 30, now faces a total of 22 charges of first-degree sexual abuse for allegedly performing oral sex and having sex with six male students at Ricker Middle School, who, at the time were all 14 years old.

Accused molester was former Florida school teacher

ORLANDO, Fla. The man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old British tourist in a hotel elevator this week was a former middle school teacher who recently lost his certificate for allegedly fondling a girl at another hotel.

Carl Moore, 36, of Kissimmee, had worked at Neptune Middle School in Osceola County before losing his license for failing to report within 48 hours a 2002 arrest for allegedly groping a 17-year-old girl at a hotel pool, according to documents from the Florida Department of Education. The final order for revocation was signed February 5.

Moore has faced several child sex abuse allegations, including a September 2002 arrest for allegedly reaching under the shirt of tourist less than 12 years old in yet another hotel elevator. More recently, he was arrested June 26 outside the same hotel after allegedly trying to hide at 3 a.m.

Investigators say Moore is not a registered sex offender in Florida. Though the victim picked Moore out of a lineup, charges in the September 2002 arrest were dropped after she failed to show for deposition or trial and prosecutors were forced to dismiss the case.

He was charged only with providing false identification to a police officer who responded to the June suspicious persons call.

However, after Monday's alleged incident, Moore faces attempted sexual battery, false imprisonment and lewd molestation charges.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Teacher's arrested in kiddie porn sting

A Brooklyn high school teacher was busted yesterday for allegedly E-mailing child porn to a man in Florida, police said.
Craig Roffman, 29, was arrested after police executing a search warrant at his Park Slope apartment found smut on his personal computer.

Roffman, an English teacher at Brooklyn's James Madison High School for less than three years, was snared after cops in Palm Beach, Fla., discovered lewd E-mails from him on a man's computer there, authorities said.

School officials said they would begin proceedings to fire Roffman immediately.

"We're moving to terminate this employee," said Education Department spokesman Keith Kalb. "He will not return in the fall."

Sunday, July 10, 2005

Court: teacher-student kiss a felony

A teacher who "French kisses" a student over the age of 16 still has committed an illegal sex act under state law, the Kansas Court of Appeals has ruled.

The court ruled on the appeal of Lori Lynn Stout, 32, a former teacher and coach at Wellington High School. She had been found guilty by a Sumner County jury of unlawful sexual relations.

The case involved her relationship with a 16-year-old female student.

Driver's Ed Teacher on Trial for Sexual Assault

The abuse allegedly took place during driver's education instruction.

Saturday, July 09, 2005

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Teacher accused of sex with pupil at Cedar Crest

The 33-year-old Cornwall man, a former Cedar Crest Middle School social-studies teacher, has been arrested and charged with various offenses related to a sexual relationship police say he was carrying on with a girl beginning when she was 13 and in seventh grade.

Fleming has been accused of having inappropriate contact with the girl in a laundry list of locations, including his home, her father’s house, her mother’s house, the school and the woods behind the school. He is also accused of convincing the girl, who was raised a Christian, to become an atheist, police said.

Community stunned as HS coach charged with spanking players

A Staten Island coach and community figure has been arrested on charges of spanking teenage boys if they missed their basketball shots, officials said.

Former county music teacher arrested

A former Augusta County music teacher was arrested in California last month on charges involving the alleged sexual abuse of a Beverley Manor Middle School student.

Teacher set for court date; Molestation suspect worked for charter school

Bobby W. Kennedy Jr., a 26-year-old Queen Creek resident, is charged with two counts of sexual molestation and one count of sexual abuse in connection with incidents that occurred at the Apache Junction charter school.

Teacher in Trouble

A trial date has been set for a former Kanawha County teacher accused of sexually abusing a cheerleader while she was serving detention.

Thirty-eight-year-old Rodney Newhouse of Ripley Monday pleaded not guilty to first-degree sexual abuse, sexual abuse by a guardian and attempted second-degree sexual assault. He was indicted last month by a Kanawha County grand jury.

Monday, July 04, 2005

U.S. Public Schools Failing to Combat Predatory Employees

Predators Lurking Nationwide