Govt agencies 'dropped the ball' in sex abuse case

A near total breakdown in communication, procedure and protocols throughout several government agencies, might have allowed a suspected child molester to leave the jurisdiction without being brought to justice, according to the findings of a committee to investigate alleged cases of sexual abuse at the Eight Mile Rock High School (EMR).

The final report of the committee was presented and tabled in the House of Assembly by Committee Chairman and Englerston MP Glenys Hanna-Martin yesterday. Hanna- Martin said that one of the most disturbing things the committee discovered through research and public hearings, was that "teachers, administrators and staff were all aware of allegations and failed to report it."

Those allegations were reportedly leveled against former EMR art teacher Andre Birbal by several male students, long before he was arrested and questioned in connection with the alleged molestation of one of his former male students last year.

Sheffield Teacher Charged In Sex Abuse Case Loses Job

COLBERT COUNTY, AL - An update on a teacher in Colbert County who is charged with rape and sodomy. Amanda Watkins, a teacher at Sheffield Junior High School, has been fired.

Watkins was an eighth grade teacher at the school. Muscle Shoals Police arrested her last month. Police say they caught her engaged in an inappropriate sexual relation with a ninth grade student. The student was in her class last year.

Watkins had been on paid administrative leave.

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Sidwell Friends fires teacher, Robert A. "Pete" Peterson, accused of sex abuse

Police in Montgomery and Queen Anne's counties have charged a Sidwell Friends middle school teacher with sexual abuse of a minor and other sexual offenses, according to law enforcement officials.

On Wednesday, the private Northwest Washington school announced that it had fired social studies teacher Robert A. "Pete" Peterson, 65.

Peterson taught seventh and eighth grades and was director of the school's Camp Corsica on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He was placed on leave shortly before the beginning of the 2009-10 school year.

Peterson has not been permitted on campus or at school-sponsored events since then, school officials said. He was dismissed Jan. 14.

According to Montgomery County charging documents dated Jan. 14, Peterson befriended a male Sidwell student and repeatedly invited him to his Silver Spring home. Peterson showed the student pornography and touched him inappropriately, the charging documents say.

Former AHS band director pleads guilty

clipped from www.thetelegraph.com EDWARDSVILLE - Former Alton High School music teacher Matt Lang pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of criminal sexual assault after a prosecutor revealed for the first time that the victim participated in an electronic eavesdrop. The parents reported the case to the Madison County Sheriff's Department, and authorities took the victim to the county's Child Advocacy Center in Wood River, where she admitted in an interview that she was having a sexual relationship with Lang.

Greece teacher Jeffrey Hoffman rejects plea

clipped from www.democratandchronicle.com Greece elementary school music teacher Jeffrey A. Hoffman will go to trial this spring on charges that he sexually assaulted a student. Hoffman, 28, on Tuesday rejected an offer that would have sent him to prison for two years if he pleaded guilty to a felony of second-degree criminal sexual act, the most serious charge against him. Under terms of the proposed plea offer, which was accepted by the student and her family, Hoffman also would have been supervised by parole officers for 10 years after his release from prison.

Details Of Sex Abuse Involving Teacher Of The Year

clipped from www.wkrg.com For the first time since Charles Lewis Jr., 50, was arrested January 12th, Dr. Roy Nichols acknowledged complaints against the teacher may have been mishandled. Nichols insists the school district is conducting an internal investigation to find out who knew about the prior complaints.

Deputy head at Princess Diana's former school charged with having affair with pupil

William Whillock, 56, was arrested in front of staff and students at The New School in West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent, after the head teacher was told of the affair and alerted police.

He had been in charge of child protection at the school, which caters for "damaged" pupils who have been "emotionally scarred by abuse, bereavement, bullying or other trauma" and cannot get along in maintream education, according to its website.

Radcliff teacher pleads to felony

A Radcliff middle school teacher indicted in March on a charge of tampering with a witness pleaded guilty to the felony charge Friday in Bardstown’s 10th Circuit Court.

The 29-year-old teacher, Angela Taylor, remains employed with Hardin County Schools, despite pleading to the felony charge.

Taylor, with her boyfriend, 27-year-old David M. Morris, also was indicted last year on more than 200 felony counts relating to child pornography. Kentucky State Police claim images depicting a child performing sex acts were found on a computer at the couple’s Bardstown home July 1, 2009.

James West, school dean in sex abuse case, faces lawsuit by alleged victim

The ex-Catholic school dean who got a conditional discharge in a sexual abuse case now faces a lawsuit by the young man he allegedly fondled.

Jail for teacher who nearly drove his teenage abuse victim to suicide

A TEACHER in Hull has been jailed for five years after a traumatised teenage girl he sexually abused called ChildLine for help.

Raymond Hendrickson, 42, a teacher at South Holderness Technology College, admitted abusing the youngster over a four-year period.

Brunswick schools settle sex abuse lawsuit

The Brunswick County school board has settled a 2-year-old lawsuit that claimed school officials neglected to stop a South Brunswick High School custodian from molesting a learning-disabled boy.

Teacher in sex abuse case exposed himself to Causey school student, complaint claims

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- A Causey Middle School teacher arrested this week on a child sex abuse charge had previously been accused of exposing himself to a Causey student, a Mobile County school system official said Thursday.

The accusation was not proven and therefore not included in the teacher's personnel file, according to the school system.

Eight Mile Rock High School Sexual Misconduct Allegations

In late April of last year in wake of several allegation of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of students at the Eight Mile Rock High School, allegedly perpetrated by a teacher at that school, the House of Assembly agreed to the appointment of the Committee to investigate the allegations.

Teacher who molested six girls is free

clipped from www.wivb.com On parole after serving eight years of sentence NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) - A former teacher who molested six girls in North Tonawanda is out of prison. 36-year-old Jason Lorich is now on parole after serving more than eight years of a ten year sentence. He pleaded guilty in 2001 to six counts of sexual abuse while teaching at Meadow Elementary School.

St. Paul junior high teacher accused of fondling girl, 12

A 43-year-old St. Paul junior high school teacher charged Wednesday with criminal sexual conduct is accused of drugging and then molesting a 12-year-old girl.

Robert Howard Swanson, a math teacher at St. Paul's Ramsey Junior High School, was charged in Isanti County District Court. The attack is alleged to have occurred over the New Year's weekend at his Cambridge home.

Causey Middle School teacher arrested on child sex abuse charge

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- A teacher at Causey Middle School in west Mobile was arrested Tuesday evening on a child sexual abuse charge in Baldwin County while on paid administrative leave involving a drunken-driving arrest last week, officials said.

Charles Milton Lewis Jr., 50, of Summerdale, was booked into the Baldwin County Corrections Center charged with sexual abuse of a child under age 12, Baldwin Sheriff's spokesman Maj. Anthony Lowery said in a news release.

Priest Teacher Hell

clipped from www.armidaleexpress.com.au Priest for trial on sex charges A FORMER Armidale Catholic priest will go to trial in April on charges of sexual misconduct. Peter William Dwyer, 67, now of Bellingen, faces 12 charges of abuse, most with a 13-year-old boy in 1982. His trial at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court will begin on April 27. Dwyer is one of nine former staff members of St Stanislaus’ College in Bathurst - five priests, two ex-priests, one brother and one lay teacher - who face a total of more than 200 charges over alleged sexual abuse of students in the 1970s and 1980s. None has pleaded guilty. Five have been committed for trial. Charges against the nine men were laid following investigations by detectives attached to Operation Belle and a series of arrests from September 2008. After leaving St Stanislaus in 1992, Dwyer worked at the main Catholic seminar in Sydney and became a priest with the Armidale parish.

Lifting the lid on school sex abuse

clipped from www.drogheda-independent.ie A DROGHEDA author and poet has lifted the lid on sex abuse by a Christian Brother in St Joseph's national school in the 1960s. Terry McHugh claims he was the victim of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of Brother PS O'Riain (Brother Patrick Ryan, now deceased) and has chronicled his experiences within the lines and pages of his book of poetry ' The Baby's Not Settling'. Terry says the abuse began when he was 9 years of age and continued until he left for secondary school in 1965. 'There may be a perception that sexual abuse only happened in boarding schools or orphanages but it was in day schools too, and here in Drogheda.'

Band teacher accused of sexual abuse plans to take case to trial

clipped from www.thebatavian.com Band teacher accused of sexual abuse plans to take case to trial Kerry Hoffmann, the 27-year-old former band teacher from Oakfield-Alabama accused of sexually abusing a student, will take his case to trial, according to his attorney. "People will be surprised," said his attorney, Thomas D. Calandra. "We will be bringing up issues that will surprise people."

Ex-schoolteacher jailed over child porn pictures

clipped from www.worcesternews.co.uk Ex-schoolteacher jailed over child porn pictures A FORMER teacher who set up a successful lesson planning website has been sent to prison for 12 months for a child porn offence. Police recovered 424 computer images of children that Samuel Kinge had deleted.

Diocese school superintendent is the subject of sex abuse review

clipped from thetimes-tribune.com Diocese school superintendent is the subject of sex abuse review by DA's office The superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Scranton, who has taken a leave of absence, is the subject of a sexual abuse allegation under review by the Lackawanna County district attorney's office, District Attorney Andy Jarbola said Monday.

Another victim files a complaint against a former Shanley high school teacher

Another victim comes forward saying he was sexually abused by a former Shanley high school teacher. This is now the 8th case against Raimond Rose in North Dakota and Minnesota.

The victim will remain anonymous, but the complaint says he was 16 or 17 years old when Raimond Rose molested him while he was sleeping during a football trip in Jamestown.

This is sick. Period.

The pupils were shocked when they turned up at Foxhill Primary to find their teacher had been attacked in a violent break-in.

But their parents were more appalled when they learnt the 'crime' had been staged by the school as part of a problem-solving exercise.

Children as young as five were greeted with a distressing scene of 'blood' on the floor, police tape and a female teacher with a plaster on her head.

Crime investigators arrived and pupils were asked to help catch the culprit by looking at evidence.

Many of the 300 pupils at the Sheffield school remained in the dark until receiving an explanatory letter at the end of the week.

Head Nicola Shipman said parents weren't let in on the secret to keep the exercise as realistic as possible but some said their children had been left frightened.

Board votes to fire teacher charged with having sex with student

Maine Township High School District 207 officials voted to terminate the employment of Jennifer Espinosa, the Maine East teacher charged on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old former student.

Waco area sees recent rash of sex crimes against children

The year isn’t half over, and the Waco area has seen more than 20 people charged in sex crimes against children. Among those, a Bellmead pastor, two teachers and a Baylor University student.

And Monday, a 27-year-old former Brazos Middle School teacher pleaded guilty in McLennan County district court to 10 counts of sexual assault of a child. The victim was a 14-year-old male student. She will be sentenced July 26.

Whistleblower 'beaten up by relatives'

A teenage rape victim who blew the whistle on teachers allegedly raping and sexually assaulting pupils at an Umlazi school has been beaten by a fellow pupil and four of her relatives.

More teachers could be arrested after statements were taken relating to 15 incidents of rape and sexual assault, police said.

The assault on the girl has been widely condemned by child rights activists, saying it highlighted the lack of support for young victims.

Girl testifies in teacher sex case

As trial began Tuesday for West High School teacher Jose Bernardo Fanjul, his defense team portrayed him as a passionate and caring teacher who only tried to help the troubled 16-year-old student who is now accusing him of initiating an illegal sexual relationship.

"If any lines were crossed, a student-teacher relationship crossed into a friendship," Ann Marie Taliaferro told 3rd District Judge Ann Boyden, who is hearing the case instead of a jury. "But being a friend and helping a student does not mean a sexual relationship was occurring."

But during nearly three hours of testimony, the girl in question recounted in graphic detail having almost daily sexual encounters with the 46-year-old teacher last year.

She said they had sexual contact in his classroom, in the school elevator, at his home and while watching a movie at a downtown theater.

The defense claims there is no proof of the girl's allegations and they are expected to attack her credibility today during cross-examination.

Prosecutors, however, placed into evidence a number of gifts Fanjul allegedly gave the girl, including a ring, a T-shirt sprayed with his cologne and two music CDs he burned for her. The girl said Fanjul also gave her a dildo.

Proposal would require sex abuse prevention training for teachers

A little-noticed provision in a proposed Illinois law would, for the first time, require schools to provide training to prevent sex abuse by teachers.

The proposed change comes following a string of high-profile cases involving teachers accused of abusing students, which gave rise to questions about what schools are doing to protect students.

Queens Teacher, Melissa Weber, Arrested on Rape

Victim was a 14-Year-Old Social Studies Student

Matron at Oprah's school 'forced pupil to watch pornography

A pupil at a school run by Oprah Winfrey was forced to watch pornography by a dormitory matron, a court has heard.

The teenager was among at least seven victims aged 13 and 14 alleged to have suffered sexual and physical abuse at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.

Mount Angel teacher charged with sex abuse

MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) - A teacher at Kenney High School in Mount Angel has been charged with official misconduct and sex abuse for alleged relationships with two female students.

Five more Santa Monica molestation complaints investigated

The president of Santa Monica's school board said Thursday that a "breakdown in communication" prevented the board from fully examining a 2006 complaint against a teacher who was charged this week with molesting five of his female students.

Centennial High teacher arrested on suspicion of molesting a child for more than 10 years

A Centennial High School math teacher was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of molesting a child for more than 10 years, Corona police said.

Richard Angulo, 34, of Corona is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Robert Presley Detention Center. Angulo is also a freshman baseball coach at Centennial, police said.

Videos Provide Evidence Against Santa Monica Teacher

Prosecutors say there's videotaped evidence in the sexual molestation case against a Santa Monica middle school teacher.

"In the search warrant that was executed in this case we found the actual videos taken by Mr. Beltran," prosecutor Deputy District Attorney Robin Sax Katzenstein told Judge Keith Schwartz. "Here we have a case where virtually every female student that has come into contact with the defendant has had some sort of inappropriate touching, even by the defendant's own admission of being a huggy, touchy kind of person."

Catholic teacher arrested on sex abuse warrant in Richmond

Richmond police arrested a biology teacher at a Catholic high school on suspicion of sexually abusing a student, detectives said Thursday.

Rickey Bonds, 30, was jailed Wednesday afternoon with bail set at $2.5 million on charges of continual sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl who was his student within the past year at Salesian High School.

2nd teacher accused of sex offenses

For the second time in less than a week, a popular teacher at a Howard County high school has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of sex offenses against students.





Police arrested Alan Meade Beier, a 52-year-old science teacher at the top-performing River Hill High School in Clarksville, yesterday at his home.

They say he undressed and photographed a 16-year-old male student Monday evening in his classroom. Police also say he fondled a 17-year-old female student on two occasions, most recently in the fall.

Beier, who was chosen River Hill's 2001 Teacher of the Year by the senior class, has been placed on administrative leave by the school system.

River Hill Teacher Charged With Sex Abuse

A Howard County teacher was accused yesterday of sexually abusing two students at school -- the second teacher in the system to be arrested within a week on sexual abuse charges, police said.

Officers arrested Alan M. Beier, 52, a River Hill High School science teacher, yesterday at his home in Columbia and charged him with three counts of sexual child abuse, three counts of second-degree assault and three counts of fourth-degree sex offense.

STUDENT CHOKED BY ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

"I have goals I want to achieve and this is stopping that," says 17-year old Sabrina Herndon.
Herndon was wearing a jacket and strapless top and was changing in the girl's locker room at Palm Beach Gardens High School.

A teacher noticed the strapless top which is a dress code violation. Herndon says with the jacket though, the top is within dress code.

A male assistant principal then entered the girl's locker room, and within minutes Herndon was in a choke hold.

Teacher Arrested Under Peeping-Tom Law

DALLAS (AP) - A high school teacher was charged under Texas' peeping-tom law with videotaping girls' wrestling matches for his sexual enjoyment.

Police said David Ware, 28, often zoomed in for close-up shots of the girls' crotches.

Ex-SRHS teacher admits to sexual conduct charges

WEST LONG BRANCH - - A former teacher and coach at Shore Regional High School in West Long Branch will be sentenced in March after pleading guilty last week to sexual conduct with a former student.

Teen held in shooting bragged about his troubles

Eric Hainstock was abused as a child

Eric Hainstock, 15, told police he strode into Weston Schools before classes started Friday with a shotgun and a revolver and gunned down Principal John Klang because Hainstock was upset with a reprimand Klang had given him and teachers hadn't stopped a group of kids he claimed was harassing him, according to a criminal complaint.

According to the complaint, Eric Hainstock was upset with Klang because the day before the shooting the principal had given him a disciplinary notice for having tobacco. He also was unhappy because he felt Klang and teachers had taken no action against a group of kids who had called him gay and rubbed up against him.

Hainstock told a friend the principal wouldn't make it through homecoming, the complaint said.

Teen Shooter Claims He Was Teased

On Same Day As Shooting, High School Student Killed In Car Crash

Six convicted of sex with students

Five county educators and a school resource officer accused of sexual activity with students were convicted during the past seven years in Rutherford County.

Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa

Conspiracy Theory? Conspiracy Fact!

Veteran teacher suspended on sexual abuse charges

NIPOMO, Calif. A veteran San Luis Obispo County teacher has been arrested on charges he sexually abused a third grade student.
Police took 69-year-old David Eugene Grey into custody Sunday at his home in Santa Maria.

San Luis Obispo County Sheriffs Sergeant Ron Hastie says Grey allegedly molested the student at Dana Elementary School in Nipomo.

Former gym teacher accused of sexually assaulting student

KINGWOOD, W.Va. - A former West Preston Middle School physical education teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old male student last September.

Lana Jo Rinehart, 26, of Terra Alta, was indicted Tuesday on charges of third-degree sexual assault and sexual abuse by a custodian. Both are felonies.

Teacher Charged For Alleged Sexual Assaults

CANON CITY, Colo. -- A 33-year-old elementary school teacher has been charged for alleged sexual assaults on four male students under the age of 15.

Jennie Overstreet faces 21 charges, at least 19 of them felonies. There are nine counts of sexual assault on a child, four counts of enticement of a child, five counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, one count of distribution of a controlled substance.

In addition to the four alleged sexual assaults, she also faces two counts of child abuse or negligence involving two children.

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...500 to 800 cases of child abuse are committed by teachers every school year.

Violence Goes Unreported in Some Schools

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Teacher facing 7 sex crime charges

Parents sue over sexual abuse

Student Faces Criminal Charges For Teacher Jokes

That's right folks - "teachers" are not funny and should not be joked about....

Police Join Investigation Into Teacher Sex Abuse Allegations

...the student at Charlotte Catholic told police that sometime between June and September 2004 the teacher engaged in sexual activity with him against his will. The name of the teacher allegedly involved has not been released.

FOURTEEN further accusations of sexual abuse have been made against a teacher ...

Peter James Shotton, 54, of The Twitten, Albourne, Hassocks, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Friday charged with six counts of gross indecency against a boy under 16.

Seven days earlier, on April 28, he appeared in court charged with four counts of sexual assault against a seven year old.

Magistrates remanded Shotten in custody following Friday's hearing, but police charged him overnight with a further eight offences of gross indecency against another boy aged under 16.

Local Teacher Charged With Sexual Abuse Of Student

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. -- A Nassau County elementary school teacher has been charged with sexually abusing a student. Richard Paulette, 24, a teacher at Atlantic Elementary School in Fernandina Beach, was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a student in a classroom. Sheriff Tommy Seagraves, of the Nassau County Sheriff's Office, said Paulette has been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under the age of 12.

Police: School Worker Molested Teens

Authorities arrested a 42-year-old school employee on Thursday for allegedly having sexual contact with at least two 16-year-old girls during the past two years.

Perris Teacher Arrested For Sex With Student

PERRIS, Calif. A Perris middle school teacher was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student, authorities said.

Another teacher arrested for sex with student.

Houston Police Juvenile Sex Crimes Unit investigators have arrested a Milby High School substitute teacher for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old student.

Fired teacher admits sodomizing student

Raymond: To be sentenced in May




A former Sheridan High School science teacher admitted in court Thursday that she molested and sodomized a male Sheridan High student she had hired to do summer chores around her McMinnville apartment and ex-husband's Amity farm.

Adrienne Lee Raymond, 39, pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree sex abuse and one count of third-degree sodomy, alleging oral-genital contact.

Teacher Allegedly Involved Student In Death Plot

COFFEEVILLE, ALA---An 30-year-old high school English teacher allegedly had sex with at least four high school students and according to police, involved one of them in a plot to kill her husband, a gym teacher.

Former coach accused of having sex with student from age 13

OLATHE, Kan. - A former high school volleyball coach will stand trial on rape charges involving a student.

The now 18-year-old woman testified Friday that her former high school volleyball coach, Terry L. Wright II, began having a sexual relationship with her when she was 13.

Did teacher leave string of victims?

PROVO — Utah County prosecutors investigating alleged child sex abuse by an elementary school teacher nearly 20 years ago are worried there could be victims in other states where the educator worked after leaving Utah.

Alabama English Teacher Charged In Student Sex, Murder Plot

COFFEEVILLE, Ala. — An English teacher at a small Alabama high school has been charged with having sex with at least four students and allegedly involving one in a plot to kill her husband.

Persuade schools to rein in bullying

And start with the teachers that bully.

Accused Forbes Road Teacher Commits Suicide

An eighth-grade Forbes Road teacher accused of molesting two female students during school hours committed suicide at his home Monday afternoon.

David A. Davies, 45, of 1986 Dublin Mills Road, shot himself once in the head sometime between noon and 4 p.m. Monday, authorities said. He was found in a camper adjacent to the home he shared with his wife and three children.

There are times teacher checks don't balance

Ex-Teacher Rearrested in Teen Sex Case

A former elementary school teacher who spent six months in jail for having sex with a 13-year-old student was arrested again, this time for violating probation by apparently communicating with the victim.

Pamela Rogers, 28, was arrested Tuesday and released on $10,000 bond. A judge Wednesday ordered her to appear at a July 12 hearing.

Last August, Rogers reached a plea deal to serve nine months on an eight-year sentence, allowing her to avoid a trial on 28 charges of sexual battery and statutory rape. She was released from jail in February for good behavior.

Under terms of the plea deal, she was, among other things, ordered not to contact the victim or his family and not to use the Internet.

Authorities said she violated probation by establishing a Web site through the online social networking hub MySpace.com. The site features a blog that included what authorities said was communication between Rogers and the victim's 17-year-old sister.

Rogers is also accused of issuing a cryptic message to the victim through the Web site by addressing his basketball jersey number, saying he was her hero and that she would not fall in love again for three years.

Ex-Venice teacher pleads guilty to molesting students

A former Venice High School teacher and coach entered a surprise, 11th-hour guilty plea Monday to charges of sexually abusing former male students 25 years ago.

On Monday morning, the day his trial was scheduled to start, James LaMorte Sr. appeared in court with his attorney, Martin Hernandez, and entered the plea.

Teacher suspected in massive school abuse case

On Friday, deputies with the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department responded to Golden Valley Elementary School in Orosi following reports of sexual abuse to several students.

Upon investigating, authorities identified 13 students as potential victims of the suspect. That suspect is a male teacher who works at the school.

Reports of Teacher's Alleged Sex Crimes May Have Been Ignored

Ex-Belvidere teacher guilty of sexual abuse

A 53-year-old former Belvidere speech therapist has been found guilty of criminal sexual abuse and child pornography in connection with a lewd tape he made of a young girl under the age of 13 inside a local classroom.

Teacher accused of sex with boy, 13

Some parents describe Claymont Elementary School teacher Rachel L. Holt as a hip, caring teacher who took a personal interest in her students and their education.

But one father thought Holt's interest in his 13-year-old son was a little too intense.

After overhearing a flurry of telephone calls last week between Holt and his son, the boy's father went to police Monday to report that his son was "having inappropriate contact with his teacher."

Molestation victims sue Victor Elementary School

ABCs of a sex scandal

Sharp rise in teachers preying on city's kids.

Stripping down to a bra, miniskirt and crotchless panties, 30-year-old Bronx teacher Albania Abreu allegedly gave one of her GED students a lap dance - as a "Christmas present."
Angelique Jarnes, 33, shaped young minds at Long Island City High School in Queens until she was accused of having weekly sex with one of her students - while also allegedly sleeping with the boy's older brother.

On a football field in Staten Island, Curtis High School music teacher Louis Mannarino, 42, allegedly took the virginity of a high school senior, then professed he was "falling in love" with her. The girl later wore a wire to catch him discussing his tangles with two other girls.

It's a problem of "epidemic proportions," according to Terri Miller of Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation.

Teacher denies sexual abuse of school pupils

Band teacher charged with abusing student

Justice hard to come by in sexual abuse cases

"It's the same as being afraid of the Boogeyman. It never leaves their mind."

Teacher's lawsuit says mishandling of sex abuse case ruined his life

He was acquitted last year of sexual battery, but he remains suspended without pay and says he has spent his life savings as a result.

Female Teacher Sentenced To Prison For Affair With Student

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. -- A former social studies teacher at Ponderosa High School in Parker was sentenced to two years in prison and 10 years in a sexual offender probation program for having an affair with a teenage student.

She would also allow him to "monitor" her class, instead of going to his other classes, and then would go into the school's computer system to change his "unexcused" absences for his other classes to "excused," prosecutors said. This was "a sign of grooming" -- a signal of sex abuse, prosecutors said.

Teacher's aide charged with sex abuse

A teacher's assistant has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old student at Wyandanch Memorial High School in Wyandanch, Suffolk police said yesterday.

Torrence K. Lewis, 40, of Davidson Street, Wyandanch, was charged with two counts of third-degree sexual abuse, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child late Tuesday night.

Dang! This dude look like he could endanger the welfare of a child merely by staring at them!

Senate considers opening up public schools to new sex abuse lawsuits

DENVER - In trying to allow childhood victims of sex abuse to sue the Roman Catholic Church, state lawmakers are now faced with whether to also open up public schools - and taxpayers - to lawsuits of their own.

Teacher must face abuse charges, judge rules again

SARASOTA -- A judge denied James LaMorte Sr.'s third bid Monday to get the sexual assault charges against him thrown out.

Twelfth Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Robert Bennett ruled that the state can go to trial Monday to prosecute the former Venice High School teacher and coach on allegations that he sexually abused two former students.
LaMorte, 63, is charged two counts of sexual assault on a victim over 12 and two counts of lewd and lascivious acts in the presence of a child under 16.

Former teacher pleads not guilty in student sex case

A former Pace High School teacher accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a male student athlete said she did not commit the crime and claimed the allegations were an act of revenge by her estranged husband.

Teacher Charged With Sexual Abuse of 11-Year-Old

LAURENS, SC---Yet another person charged with the public trust has been arrested for allegedly violating that trust. A South Carolina elementary teacher is being held on $100,000 bond on charges that she had sex with her 11-year-old male student.

First-grader suspended for sexual harassment

A 6-year-old boy is getting a lesson on the meaning of sexual harassment long before he'll be able to spell it.

The first-grader was suspended for three days for sexual harassment after he put two fingers inside a classmate's waistband, school officials told his mother, Berthena Dorinvil. The boy told her he only touched the girl's shirt after the girl touched him.

Father accused of punching out teacher's assistant

An angry parent marched into a Lakewood Ranch High classroom Tuesday, punched a teacher's assistant in the face and cussed him out in front of students, authorities said.

The 42-year-old Bradenton father, Dave F. Swafford, was supposed to meet with school administrators to discuss an allegation that the school employee had inappropriately touched his daughter.

But Swafford bypassed that meeting and went directly to the classroom, and is facing a felony battery charge. The school district and the Sheriff's Office are investigating the teacher's assistant, Deon W. Mathis.

Attorney: Cops were told gun likely fake

LONGWOOD, FLORIDA -- The parents of a 15-year-old boy accused of terrorizing classmates with a pistol warned authorities the weapon likely was fake before police shot him in a middle school bathroom, a family attorney said Saturday

Student arrested for firing shot inside Detroit school

No one hurt at Osborn High; police track teen to nearby home.

Teacher insists sex claim baseless

The DuPage County, Ill., State’s Attorney’s Office will continue its prosecution of an Indiana substitute teacher charged with sexually molesting 13 elementary school children in Naperville and Downers Grove. That’s despite the conclusion of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services that all of the accusations are unfounded.

A spokesman for Illinois State’s Attorney Joe Birkett said Friday “the DCFS findings will have no bearing” on prosecutors’ case against Brett J. Zagorac, 23, of Munster.

Zagorac was indicted last fall in DuPage County on 13 charges of criminal sexual abuse and 13 counts of battery. All 26 are misdemeanors.

Why it can take years to ban paedophile teachers

Teacher found guilty of abuse

Former Augusta County Schools teacher Shelby Sue Shelton leaves the courtroom during a recess Thursday. She was found guilty of sexually abusing a former student.

Female Sex Offenders Drawing Increased Scrutiny

A casual observer of the news might think there was an epidemic of molestation cases involving women against boys.

Last week, a former Orange County middle school teacher was sentenced to six years in prison for committing lewd acts with boys. The same day, a seventh-grade teacher in Kern County pleaded not guilty to two counts of annoying and molesting a minor.

The next day, a probation officer was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 17-year-old ward whom she met while working at a correctional facility in Fresno County.

Since November at least eight California cases have made the news, involving women either being accused or convicted of sexually exploiting boys. Most of the perpetrators were teachers or other school personnel.

Trial proceeds in Cupertino teacher abuse case

Jury selection is scheduled to begin this afternoon in federal court in the civil trial of a former Cupertino Union School District teacher accused of physically abusing a special-education student.

Craig and Ann Gaydos allege that over a period of months in 2001 and 2002, teacher Karen Miller caused physical and emotional injury to their daughter Paige. Paige has Asperger's syndrome, a neurological disorder similar to autism, and was in Miller's special-education classroom at Eisenhower Elementary in Santa Clara.
The alleged abuses range from smearing a burrito in Paige's face and hair, to pushing her on the floor and sitting on her.

SWAT Team Shoots Fla. 8th-Grader

This story does not say it but FYI - it was a pellet gun the teen had. SWAT team loaded for bear coming to a school near you...

Teacher faces more sex allegations

Prosecutors said today that five more victims have come forward saying they were abused or harassed, in some cases decades ago, by a popular Maynard teacher facing charges of raping a student.

New allegations have surfaced against teacher Joseph Magno, 65, of Hudson. (Courtesy photo)

In Our View - Creative Students

In an effort to keep kids safe, some schools have over-reacted with zero-tolerance policies and unnecessary suppressions of student expression, says David L. Hudson, Jr., a research attorney for the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tenn.

"Student Expression in the Age of Columbine," examines court cases involving schools' handling of violent writing or art by students. Hudson writes: "Students have been punished for dark poetry, rap songs, Halloween essays ... and other material. In some cases, intervention was necessary, justified or wise. At other times, the fear for safety has led to the suppression of constitutional rights."

ES-M teacher charged with sex abuse

A teacher at Minoa Elementary School has been charged with sexual abuse in the 1st degree and endangering the welfare of a child.

Police say Robert Sampson of Syracuse had sexual contact with a ten-year-old boy. Police began investigating allegations against Sampson earlier this week. The boy told police that Sampson had repeatedly touched him during school from April through June of last year.

Gifts raise ’red flag’

When a Maynard High School teacher gave three students his used Ford Mustangs, bought them dinner or invited them to his home, it should have raised alarm bells, say school officials in nearby towns.

Maynard High School teacher Joseph Magno, 65, is accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old student when the boy was in eighth grade and a sophomore.

Magno’s attorney, Donald DeMayo of Lexington, said Magno was close friends with the boy and his family and that Magno gave the alleged victim a Ford Mustang and vacationed with them in Florida after the rape was alleged to have occurred.

DeMayo has said his client is simply a generous man who took a personal interest in his students.

Why Can’t We Just Let Kids Be Kids?