Teen's family files multiple lawsuits over alleged sex abuse by teacher

There are more developments in the case of a Bullitt County teacher charged with sex abuse involving an underage female student.
The alleged victim and her family have filed a lawsuit against the teacher and the school principal and three assistant principals.

Waco kindergarten teacher was arrested Monday

A Waco kindergarten teacher was arrested Monday at school on sexual abuse charges stemming from alleged incidents involving a student.

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Oregon school teacher faces 34 sex charges

An Umatilla County grand jury in Pendleton indicted 37-year-old Kevin Mathew Nice on Friday.

PENDLETON -- An Pilot Rock high school teacher and coach is facing sex charges involving four teenage girls.

The charges include one county of first-degree sodomy; three counts of first-degree sexual penetration; three counts of first-degree sexual abuse; eight counts of second-degree sexual abuse; one count of luring a minor; six counts of attempted use child sexual display; 10 counts of third-degree sexual abuse and two counts of official misconduct.

MARTIN TEACHER CHARGED

MARTIN TEACHER CHARGED: Stan Vickers, an economics and government teacher at Westview High School in Martin, faces a federal charge of transporting a minor across state lines to engage in unlawful sexual activity, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. The alleged incident occurred in 2003 and also involved potential violations of Kentucky and Missouri state laws, including sodomy, child molestation and sexual abuse, according to the complaint. Vickers was arrested Thursday and remains in custody.

Coach accused of sex with student

A Westview High School teacher and coach facing federal charges engaged in sexual activities with a 14-year-old boy who was a student at the school where he taught and player on the soccer team he coached, according to the federal affidavit.

Stanley Wren Vickers, 44, of Martin, is charged with transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Vickers is an economics and government teacher and girls' soccer coach at Westview High School in Martin, according to the school's Web site.

Vickers was arrested Thursday and had his initial appearance in federal court in Memphis on Friday, the news release said. He is scheduled to appear Wednesday for a probable cause and detention hearing. He remained in custody Friday, authorities said.

Oregon teacher indicted for sexual assault

PENDLETON, Ore. -- A Umatilla County grand jury indicts a Pilot Rock High School teacher accused of sexual assault.

37 year old Kevin Nice is being charged with first degree sodomy, first degree sexual abuse, first degree unlawful sexual penetration and more.

He's accused of having sexual contact with four minors. Nice was a teacher and coach at the high school.

He is in custody and will be arraigned March 22.

Principal Can Be Sued for Alleged Abuse Cover-Up

An elementary school principal must stand trial for allegedly telling parents that a band teacher who later admitted to molesting students had only been touching the girls to help them keep time in music class, the 7th Circuit ruled.
Karen Grindle, the principal at Pershing Elementary School when the abuse came to light, claimed she couldn't be sued for due process and equal protection violations because the alleged victims and their parents failed to show that a clearly established right had been violated.

Bordentown Regional teacher indicted on sexual assault

MOUNT HOLLY — A Burlington County grand jury indicted a Bordentown
Regional High School teacher for having sexual relations with a female student at the school, county Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi announced today.


Francisco Planas-Borgstrom, 32, of Willow Street, was indicted on four counts of second-degree sexual assault and a count of second-degree official misconduct.

Ex-teacher accused of drugging children for sex gets 8 years in prison

MOBILE, Ala. -- A federal judge in Mobile grappled Thursday over what to do about Melissa B. Gray.

The former schoolteacher appeared in U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose's court to be sentenced for receipt and distribution of child pornography.

But those charges represent only part of the story: Law enforcement investigators say Gray, 30, drugged two young children in her Chickasaw home, in an effort to render them unconscious so that a Florida man Gray met on the Internet would be able to molest them.

Albany Teacher Charged With Sexual Abuse

An Albany school teacher charged with sexual abuse after police say she inappropriately touched a teenage girl.
Wendy Daignault is an Albany special education teacher at the Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology, also known as TOAST.
Police say this alleged crime happened in the Town of Guilderland and not on school grounds or with one of her students.
But parents say no matter where the crime occurred, they are still concerned about the allegations against one of their teachers.

Former teacher of the year pays fine in DUI case

BAY MINETTE -- A Mobile County teacher accused of fondling a friend's son admitted to substantial evidence against him and paid a fine in a DUI case today -- the first step toward being found guilty, prosecutors said.

Charles Milton Lewis Jr., 50, a resident of Summerdale and a Causey Middle School teacher, was arrested Jan. 4 after he crashed his car at Baldwin County 9 and 32 on the way to a school function.

Tests showed his blood/alcohol level was 0.11 officers said. The state's legal limit is 0.08.

Soon thereafter, a 9-year-old boy said Lewis touched him inappropriately last July while he spent the night at Lewis' home.

Ex-teacher Roy Junior High gets 5 years in prison for relationship with teen

OGDEN -- Just another tale of love and romance.

She was 16, he was 44. She was in high school and working at Roy Junior High School as a janitor. He was a popular teacher there.

She's still working there today. He's on his way to Utah State Prison.

"Absolutely incredible," 2nd District Judge Ernie Jones told Kenneth Taylor as he sentenced him to up to five years in prison Wednesday.

"You were having sex with a student at the school."

Expert says sexual abuse is rising in schools

The Phenomenon of Sexual Abuse is rising in secondary schools and education authorities are not doing enough to prevent it, Dr. Mrs. Justina Adeosun, a medical Doctor told the participants at symposium to mark the tenth anniversary of Darfote International Secondary School Ijaye Lagos. Dr. (Mrs.) Adeosun spoke on “The role of Parents, Schools and Society in Sexual Abuse prevention and intervention.”

According to Dr. Justina Adeosun, parents should educate the children on what constitutes sexual abuse and what the children can do to prevent it. She disclosed that sexual abuse is so common in Nigeria. She said 52% of respondents in a survey confirmed that they have experienced sexual abuse.

Teacher sentenced to 30 years for abusing pupils

Mar 18, 2010, 9:02 GMT

Tokyo - A former Japanese primary school teacher was found guilty Thursday of 95 cases of sexual abuse and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A high court in Hiroshima handed down the highest possible verdict against the 44-year-old, the Kyodo News agency reported.

Between 2001 and 2006 the teacher raped or otherwise sexually abused his victims, then aged between 9 and 12, on 95 occasions.

The court said the man had abused the public trust in teachers with his \'monstrous crimes,\' and showed little remorse, thereby justifying the maximum sentence.

Former kindergarten teacher faces charges of sex abuse

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Matthew Brian Berresford

Originally published March 18, 2010


By Kate Leckie
News-Post Staff

Former kindergarten teacher faces charges of sex abuse



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A former Frederick County kindergarten teacher is accused of the sexual abuse of a minor throughout the 2008-09 school year, authorities confirmed Wednesday evening.

Matthew Brian Berresford, 31, of East Berlin, Pa., faces charges of the sex abuse of a minor and a continuing course of conduct involving the sex abuse of a minor, according to Circuit Court documents made available Wednesday.

State's Attorney Charlie Smith said Berresford was indicted by a grand jury Friday for actions alleged to have occurred on the grounds of an elementary school.

"That's all I can say at this moment," Smith said.

Marita Loose, spokeswoman for the county public schools, said Berresford had been employed as a kindergarten teacher at North Frederick Elementary School.

"Last summer, after the investigation took place, he did not return to school," Loose said Wednesday. "He is no longer employed by FCPS."

Court documents reveal that instances of sex abuse are alleged to have occurred between Aug. 25, 2008, and June 16, 2009.

No defense attorney is listed on court documents. Berresford could not be reached for comment.

Berresford is scheduled for an initial appearance in Circuit Court on May 7.

Assistant State's Attorney Tammy M. Leache, who presented evidence in the case to the grand jury Friday, was also unavailable for comment.

Frederick Police Department Lt. Shawn Martyak said Detective Mark Pecor investigated the case in conjunction with county Child Protective Services.

Curtis Boylen Still Has Teaching License

FAIRMONT -- A former Marion County teacher acquitted of sex-related charges still has a license to teach in West Virginia.

The West Virginia Department of Education (DOE) has been monitoring the case against Curtis Boylen, according to Liza Cordeiro, the department’s communications officer.

A 14-year-old accused Boylen of raping her twice in 2005, but a jury found Boylen not guilty of 2 counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian and 2 counts of first-degree sexual assault on Monday, March 15.

Police Accuse Teacher Of Sex With Students

TODD COUNTY, Ky. - A high school teacher and coach in Todd County has been accused of having sex with students.

Investigators said Terry Nofsinger committed the sex crimes while he was a teacher at Ohio County High School. The most recent case is more than 7 years old.

The 43-year-old faces five counts of sodomy, nine counts of sexual abuse and 15 counts of unlawful transaction with a minor.

Nofsinger is now a teacher and coach with Todd County Central High School. Todd County superintendent Michael Kenner said in a statement that Nofsinger has been placed on leave without pay "pending final action for termination."

The Holocaust "game"..

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk A group of stunned primary schoolchildren began crying when their teacher told them during a bizarre Holocaust game that they were to be taken away from their families. The pupils, aged 11, became upset after a number of them were segregated and told they were being sent away or might end up in an orphanage. 'One boy kicked his chair over, one was angry and demanded to speak to someone in charge but most were crying on a scale ranging from mildly to severely.

Accused teacher killed in crash on eve of sex abuse trial

A primary school teacher from Shropshire charged with a string of sexual offences against children died in a car crash hours before his trial was due to start, it has been disclosed.

Robert Stringer, 57, was killed when his Peugeot 407 hit a bridge parapet on the westbound A41 near Bourne End in Hertfordshire late on Sunday night.

His trial was due to open at Isleworth Crown Court in west London on Monday morning.

Stringer, of Redstone Drive in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, was charged with two counts of rape of a child under 13; one count of rape of a child under 14; two counts of indecent assault; seven counts of sexual assault of a child under 13; three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity; five counts of assault of a child under 13 by penetration; two counts of attempted rape and one count of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, a court official said.

The alleged offences against four female victims took place between 1999 and 2009, the Metropolitan Police said. Stringer died at the scene of the crash on Sunday.