Math teacher at Martinez Middle School in Lutz, Fla., was arrested March 13, 2008, accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy. She reportedly met the boy on campus while working as a special education teacher at Davidsen Middle School the previous schoolyear. Ragusa allegedly had sex with the student twice in her car and once in her apartment between October 2006 and May 2007. An arrest affidavit from investigators says the victim's story was verified by his knowledge of tattoos of a flower and an insect on Ragusa that are visible only if she is undressed. She was arrested a second time on April 15, 2008, for sex with another boy, and then while free on bail, was arrested a third time on April 28 for allegedly having sex yet again with one of her previous victims. On June 28, 2010, she was sentenced to 10 years prison by Circuit Judge Chet Tharpe, who described Ragusa's courtroom demeanor as arrogant. "You had a very lackadaisical attitude on your face, smiling, jovial," Tharpe said. "If I had to sum up your attitude in one word, it would be arrogance. I don't know as we stand here today that you truly appreciate the harm that you caused. I honestly believe, Ms. Ragusa, that you are a sexual predator. And I honestly believe that you are a danger to children in our community."
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Kathryn Camille Murray
A former middle school teacher in Texas was sentenced to a year in county jail Tuesday for having a sexual relationship with a student she tutored. Kathryn Camille Murray, 31, pleaded guilty last month to charges of inappropriate relationship with a student and sexual assault of a child. Prosecutors said Murray had sex with the teen at least four times beginning when he was 15. Murray originally came under investigation in 2012, and was fired from her job at Memorial Middle School in Houston. Police learned that Murray had sex with the boy twice in her classroom when she was supposed to be tutoring him in Language Arts, according to KHOU. They also had sex in a hotel the night of a school dance, and once at his parents' house while his parents were away. According to the Houston Chronicle, Murray closed her bank account and planned to flee to Mexico shortly before she was arrested in February 2012.
The affair continued even after a judge ordered Murray not to see the boy. In January 2013, Murray faced charges of harboring a runaway after police came to her father's house and caught the teen, then 16, leaving out the back door. Murray's bond was revoked after the January 2013 incident, and she was jailed.
The victim's parents said their son is confused, has been suicidal, and has conflicting feelings about his former teacher. At one point, the victim said he was in love with Murray, according to a separate KHOU report.
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Shebana Rajput, 35: Biology and physical science instructor since August 2005 at Jones Senior High School in Trenton, N.C., resigned her position May 21, 2008 – just two days before she was arrested in her home for alleged sexual conduct with a 17-year-old student whose gender was not released. Sheriff's officials say she had sexual relations with the teen in her home on nine separate occasions between March and May of 2008. Rajput was charged with eight counts of sexual activity with a student and one count of sex offense with a student. She was held on $100,000 bail as authorities looked into the possibility she was involved with additional students
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Alison Peck:
Former teacher at Greenfield High School in Greenfield, Mo., was charged May 22, 2009, in Green County with statuatory rape after convincing two friends to help her spend a night at a motel in Springfield with a 16-year-old boy who used to be her student. Peck had already been charged in Dade County on May 14 with having sexual relations with the boy at a park in that county sometime between January and March. On the day after receiving that citation, she arranged with friends to meet the boy at the Springfield motel. On May 17, she was charged with statuatory sodomy and statuatory rape because the boy told the detective that he had liaisons with Peck at her home in Mount Vernon. Judges have set bonds of $2,500 in Dade County, $10,000 in Lawrence County, and $200,000 in Greene County and Leo has been issued a no-contact order, told to stay 1,000 feet away from the boy's home and school and to surrender her passport.
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Christie David
Christie David, 32, has been charged with sexual battery after allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with one of her students. A high school teacher has been fired after allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of her 15-year-old students. Christie David, 32, of Cleveland, Tenn. was indicted by a grand jury and arrested on Tuesday, according to the Times Free Press. Details of the relationship were not released by authorities, but the Cleveland Daily Banner reports that David was fired from her job as a language arts teacher at Walker Valley High School after she was arrested on a charge of sexual battery by an authority figure. The Daily Mail reports that police started investigating David after receiving a tip in late September. David is married and, in addition to her job at Walker Valley High, she also reportedly taught a spin class at her local YMCA. When the Daily Mail placed a call to the YMCA, the person who answered seemed startled by the accusations."Are you sure you are asking for the right person?" she said. "That doesn't sound like the Christie David I know."
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Courtney Speer
A former Bryant High School teacher will spend time behind bars. Police say Courtney Speer abused her trust and had a sexual relationship with a student, starting in the summer of 2012.
Family and friends gathered around Courtney Speer Monday as they waited for her turn in court. By the looks of it, they attempted to shield her from the camera.The investigation started when Bryant police were notified of the allegations by a school resource officer. At the time, the teen was Speer's former student. October 1, 2012, Speer resigned from the Bryant School District. Two days later, the 31-year old mother of two, was charged with having sex with a 17-year old. She turned herself in, only to be released in minutes after paying a percentage of the 20-thousand dollar bond. That same week, Speer's husband of 10-years filed for divorce. According to statements made to police by the teen, the first sexual encounter was in the school parking lot. It reportedly happened at least six times, four times her car in Bryant and twice at her family home in Benton. Monday afternoon, Speer walked out of the Saline County Courthouse in hand cuffs. She plead guilty to four of the six counts of sexual assault in the second degree. Although she has been sentenced to 15 years at an Arkansas Department of Correction facility, 8 are suspended. She will have to serve seven years.Speer has two children with her ex-husband.
A South Carolina teacher has been sentenced after she pleaded guilty to sexual battery with a student 16 or 17 years of age with no aggravated force or coercion. Kinsley Wentzky worked for the Dreher School District for seven years before she was fired. The English teacher was initially arrested for sex with not one, but two 17-year-old boys. The extra-curricular activities with the students began back in May of 2012. In South Carolina the age of consent is 16. But it’s not legal to sleep with your 16 or 17-year-old students.Wentzky was arrested in January of 2013 when on of the students’ mothers reported their relationship to the authorities. Both Wentzky and the student admitted to the “intimate” relationship that took place at both the students’ and the teacher’s homes.
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Amy Northcutt:
Former history teacher at Turlock Christian School in Turlock, Calif. was arrested on June 2, 2008, along with her husband, Justin Northcutt, 27, a substitute teacher at the same school, for sending erotic text messages to a 16-year-old female student and attempting to arrange group sex with her. Police were called in when the girl's mother became suspicious of Mr. Nothcutt's attention toward her daughter.
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Symone Greene
A substitute teacher in Washington, D.C., has been arrested after a 17-year-old junior allegedly recorded a sexual encounter with the teacher and shared the video with members of his football team, reports CBS DC. The sexual encounter allegedly happened in an Options Public Charter School classroom.The student says he flirted with Greene and gave her his cell phone number. Shortly afterwards, he says he got a text message from her. Though he has since erased the messages, he recalls that he asked her if she was "kinky," and that she responded by saying "I don't tell I show." Around 3:30 p.m. Oct. 17, he says he went to Greene's classroom and they engaged in sexual acts. The student recorded the encounter.
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Meghan Eagan
Meghan Eagan, 25, a teacher at Crosby High School in Waterbury, Conn., was arrested on four counts of sexual assault for carrying on trysts with a male student at her home, the Waterbury Police Department said. Eagan and the student allegedly engaged in the illicit activity from the end of December through January - none of their encounters occured on school grounds, police said.
In her mug shot, Eagan donned a loose-fitting beige Superman shirt and appeared unfazed by her arrest. Several students took to Twitter to express their shock — and adolescent amusement at Eagan’s arrest. “Ms Eagan had sex with a student hahahahahahaha i knew it,” wrote @ki_araa.
She has been placed on administrative leave pending the probe, and she posted the $100,000 bond. Eagan is due back in court on Feb. 25, police said.
An educator in Tampa Bay, the investigation into her activities was launched after a 17-year-old boy's father told investigators he saw his son "holding his pants together and putting them back in place" after getting out of Marinelli's 2007 Chrysler 300. Spokesman Kevin Doll of the Pasco County sheriff's office said she was arrested March 24, 2008, and accused of unlawful sex with a minor. She also is accused of giving the boy a pair of underwear as a memento. Marinelli was the third Tampa Bay area teacher to be charged in a short period of time with a sex-related crime against a minor. In Hillsborough County, former Davidsen Middle School math teacher Stephanie Ragusa and Freedom High English teacher Mary Jo Spack of Wesley Chapel were accused of having sex with underage students.
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Carrie Mccandless
Carrie McCandless, a former teacher at Brighton Charter High school in Colorado has been arrested for a second time following her conviction for having sex with a student.
McCandless was convicted in the summer of 2007 after pleading guilty to having a sexual relationship with a 17 year old student during a class trip to Estes Park, Colorado. Police recovered saucy and intimate text message conversations that the teacher and student had exchanged with one another during the course of their relationship. As a result of her conviction, McCandless was sentenced to 45 days in jail, required to register as a sex offender and was ordered to submit to enhanced supervision of her activities for 5 years. This supervision required that she notify parole officers before engaging in sexual relations with unreported parties. McCandless was jailed again in March, 2008, after a Weld County probation officer found her in bed at the apartment of another parolee on March 6th. According to police, the fellow offender was not McCandless' husband and therefor violated the terms of her parole. As a result, she was sentenced to 30 days in jail. McCandless, who is still married to Brighton Charter High School's principal Chris McCandless, was booked into the Larimer County Jail on Friday. She is scheduled for a disposition hearing on May 19.
A Fairfield,Calif teacher is facing eight felony counts after being arrested on charges of having sexual relations with a minor, police said.Vallejo police said they arrested Felicia Killings, 27, Tuesday at Rodriguez High School in Fairfield.Killings was booked into the Solano County Jail but is now out on bail.She faces felony charges that include having sex with a minor and oral copulation, police said.According to the school's website, Killings is an English teacher.Vallejo police are investigating the case because they believe many of the crimes took place at Killings' home.
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Megan Mahoney
Two female basketball coaches turned a Catholic secondary school into Horndog High, bedding students for years under the watch of a skirt-chasing athletic director, according to an alleged victim and three school sources. Among the claims is that Megan Mahoney, a former assistant women’s basketball coach and gym teacher, had a months-long sexual relationship last year with a 16-year-old student; and that Richard Postiglione, Moore’s athletic director and chief operating officer, failed to report multiple faculty-student affairs to authorities beginning as early as 2006, though he and the principal were told of the randy romps.Mahoney, 25, who was also the assistant athletic director at the 450-student school in the Bulls Head section, would pick him up and take him to secluded spots to have sex, the boy said. “We would just drive around and [do it] in the car,” he said. He said the two never talked about the illegal or inappropriate nature of their relationship. “That never came up,” he said. “We were never boyfriend-girlfriend,” he said. “It was cool. I knew it wasn’t going anywhere. I told my best friend and like three kids.” The school sources claimed Mahoney bedded another 16-year-old boy in 2012, but nothing was done about that relationship. Around 2006 or 2007, they said, another female coach under Postiglione was reported sleeping with a female student. “Rich knew about it in the first year and let it continue for four more years,” the source said. He forced the coach to sign “an agreement … to stop.” But the relationship continued and the coach eventually resigned under pressure, the school sources said.
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Tanya Ramirez
Tanya Ramirez, the former King High School teacher who turned herself into police Tuesday and was charged with improper relationship between a student and educator, was released from jail just after noon Wednesday after posting a $10,000 bond.
Ramirez is accused of having sex with a 17-year old student while she was employed as a teacher and coach at King High School. Now, she faces second-degree felony charges that could land her in prison for up to 20 years, and have her teacher certification taken away
Allison Marchese posted this and other suggestive photos to Instagram She was a respected teacher that teens looked up to -- the kind that they'd ask to write college their recommendation letters -- but now she faces sex abuse charges involving two students.
In court Tuesday, Allison Marchese, 37, pleaded not guilty to second degree sexual assault, risk of injury and impairing the morals of a child.
She turned herself in to police Feb. 12, following an investigation that began in January after a staff member learned of the allegations.
The mother of two is accused of stalking two students at Daniel Hand High School in Madison, Connecticut, where she taught English since 2003. Police say she sent the boys, ages 15 and 17, inappropriate photos and messages on social media. Police said that Marchese got to know one alleged victim, the 17-year-old, through summer football conditioning workouts at the school, which she supervised and he attended, according to WFSB. Investigators say things quickly got inappropriate after Marchese, and the boy started following each other on Instagram in the fall of 2014. The boy told police that after Thanksgiving, Marchese started sending him "weird" sexual messages. She also shared partially nude selfies on Instagram, where numerous students could see them, according to WTNH. Marchese's interactions with the student escalated until one day in December, when she allegedly called the boy to her classroom during school hours, locked the door, closed the blinds, and performed oral sex on him. The victim told police he "freaked out" after that and told Marchese that she could give him $200 to stay silent about their encounter. According to WTNH, Marchese replied with threats, telling him that "her father was an abusive man who had spent time in jail, had contacts in the Mafia and would tell his boys in New York and [the victim] would never play football again." Like the 17-year-old victim, the 15-year-old said his interactions with Marchese started off like a normal student-teacher relationship. He said that they were friendly throughout this freshman year, starting when he was 14, but that by the end of the school year Marchese began messaging him "nonstop" through Instagram. The boy asked her repeatedly to cut it out, according to police. When the boy told her that he just wanted to have a normal, appropriate relationship again, she allegedly replied via Instagram, "I know when to stop, I know when to move on, but 'I know' is different from 'I can.'" Marchese's husband is also a teacher at Daniel Hand High School.
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Tanikka Queen
A 22-year-old former long-term substitute teacher at Hyde Park Middle School will plead guilty to charges she had an affair with a 15-year-old male student, her lawyer said Friday. Tanikka “Bella” Queen will plead guilty to two felonies, one count each of luring a child to engage in a sexual act and sexual conduct by a school employee and a pupil.
The affair was uncovered in March when the parent of a female student, with whom Queen had a friendship, found text messages on the girl’s phone referring to the affair, according to court papers. The boy’s father also became suspicious when his son came home with a hickey. Queen, who taught geography at the middle school near Valley View and Charleston boulevards, initially denied having an affair with her student, according to police reports. In one interview with detectives, Queen described the boy as a troubled eighth-grader who was repeating the grade for the third time. But school district police recovered from a cellphone about 2,400 text messages, 108 phone calls and 38 photographs sent between Queen and the boy that showed a burgeoning love affair that began around Valentine’s Day. “Remember no matter how I act at school I still love you with all my heart,” Queen wrote in one text, according to police. Queen eventually admitted to spending too much time with the boy and kissing him. In one interview, she told detectives she had sex with the boy while she was house sitting for a friend, according to a report.
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Andrea Sandoval
A teacher's aide is out on bond after being accused of having a sexual encounter with a male student in Pharr. Pharr police booked Andrea Christina Sandoval into the Hidalgo County Jail late Friday morning. The 32-year-old teacher's aide is facing an improper relationship between teacher and student charge. Court records obtained by Action 4 News show that the incident originally happened back on May 29th. Sandoval worked at PSJA Southwest High School where students were given early release on the day of the crime. The teacher's aide allegedly offered a 17-year-old male student a ride home but ended up taking him to her house. Court records show that the two kissed and then performed sexual acts on each other on her sofa. Sandoval was released from custody at the Hidalgo County Jail after posting a $10,000 bond on Friday.
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Quotaysha Jones
St. Lucie County elementary school teacher was arrested Friday after a teenager she routinely visited in jail admitted to having a sexual relationship with her, St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office deputies said. Quotaysha Jones, 29, of Port St. Lucie, was arrested at Mariposa Elementary School after classes ended. Detectives said Jones visited the 17-year-old boy on 46 occasions, 39 of which were recorded, since his arrest. According to the arrest affidavit, Jones told the teen during one such visit that she misses him and asked if he wanted to see her "booty." According to the report, Jones also told the teen to be ready nine months after he gets out, insinuating that she wanted to have a baby with him. During an interview with detectives, Jones admitted to having a platonic relationship with the boy, now 17. However, the teen told detectives that he has been having sex with Jones since he turned 16.
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Emily L. Nesbit
Emily L. Nesbit, 32, of South Middleton Township, was sentenced by Cumberland County Judge Albert Masland to 4 years of probation. The sentence follows a plea agreement struck with the district attorney's office. Nesbit, who was an 11th grade English teacher, pleaded guilty in September to one count of institutional sexual assault for having sexual contact with an 18-year-old male student.
A former special education teacher at Woodlan Jr/Sr High School who admitted to having a relationship with a then 17-year-old was sentenced to three years of probation on Tuesday. Paige Mostella pleaded guilty to a child seduction charge in January. Mostella’s three-year sentence, which is the maximum she could have received, will be suspended and she will serve it on probation. She will also be electronically monitored by community corrections and will have to undergo sex offender counseling.
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Maria Contreras
A lawyer for Maria Contreras, 29, said it’s not true that his client assaulted the 14-year-old special education student. ‘This is the word of a special needs child with serious behaviorism issues,’ the lawyer said. Maria Contreras, 29, was arraigned Sunday and held on $25,000 bail — but her lawyer went on the attack against the paraprofessional’s accuser. Contreras, a married mother of two, is accused of having sex with the boy at least six times. Roughly 40 friends and family showed support for her at the courthouse
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Margaret De Barraicua:
Sacramento, Calif., area woman arrested in February 2005 after police found her having sex with a 16-year-old male student in her car while the woman's toddler was strapped into a seat in the back. She pleaded guilty to four felony counts of statutory rape and in November 2005 was sentenced to a year in jail and five years formal probation.
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Kristy Sanchez-Trujillo:
Seventh-grade social studies teacher at Jimmy Carter Middle School in Albuquerque was arrested Oct. 28, 2009, for rape over accusations she had sex with one of her students, a 13-year-old boy. "Miss Sanchez-Trujillo confided in another teacher that she was having an inappropriate relationship with a student," a police officer said. "That teacher thankfully came forward immediately, told police." The single mother of three reportedly told police the pair had sex in the backseat of her SUV at "our spot," and that it was "loving and caring." The boy, whom she described as "a 25-year-old in a 13-year-old's body," "was more experienced than any man she's had sex with," police report her saying.
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Dina Casaliggi
Dina Casaliggi fell in love with the student at Susan E. Wagner High School in Staten Island, and later admitted to a colleague she’d had sex with him in her car and at her home when her husband was away, an investigation by the Department of Education found.
A former Wyoming Valley West English teacher is going to spend time behind bars, and even more time on a state police registry after entering a guilty plea Thursday afternoon in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct with students.
The former teacher had been charged with institutional sexual assault and corruption of minors. The Kingston resident was initially arrested by Plymouth police and Luzerne County detectives on Dec. 18 in connection with an alleged encounter with an 18-year-old student. While free on $25,000 unsecured bail, she was arrested twice in January by county detectives and police in Plymouth and Kingston when other male students claimed they had sexual encounters with her.
Utah teacher accused of sex with three students to stand trial after victim testifies their sex continued AFTER her arrest Brianne Altice, 35, who taught English at Davis High School in Kaysville, Utah, is accused of 14 felony charges, including rape, sodomy, sexual abuse The South Weber woman also sent the boy a text message with a photograph of her breasts in June 2014, authorities said The student, 18, testified at Thursday that he had sex with Altice before and after she was arrested in October 2013 Altice will have three separate trials for each boy she allegedly assaulted, a judge ruled Monday
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Victoria Tatum
Police arrested a Newton County teacher accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old student. Newton County Sheriff say they were informed that Victoria Tatum, 24, had inappropriate contact with the male teen on more than one occasion.
Police charged Tatum with two counts of aggravated child molestation, enticing a child and other charges, the Newton County Sheriff’s Office said. All of the charges are felonies.
“Per abuse protocol, a forensic interview was conducted and a disclosure was made that inappropriate contact occurred more than once,” said the Sheriff’s Office. “At this time, the investigation revealed that the contact began less than a month ago. Probable cause was obtained to apply for an arrest warrant.”
Tatum was arrested Thursday at Newton County High School. According to the school’s website, Tatum is a math teacher. Deputies said they are only aware of one student involved, but the investigation remains open. She was being held without bond Thursday afternoon.
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Jessica Bonnett Acker
A 23-year-old teacher has been arrested after being accused of having sex with her 18-year-old student only seven months after tying the knot with another man.
Jessica Bonnett Acker is believed to have been involved in a relationship with the boy while teaching at Bryant High School in Cottondale, Alabama. The pair were both interviewed by police and warrant for Acker's arrest was issued. She turned herself into the authorities the following day.
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Sarah Jones -
Sarah Jones' has been charged with having sexual relations with a minor - a student of hers when she was a teacher at Dixie Heights High School in Kentucky. Though it is not known if Jones attended try outs for the Ben-Gals again this year, the final round took place this weekend May 19th. It seems Jones would be at a disadvantage physically, as she is court ordered to wear a cumbersome electronic ankle bracelet. Jones appealed this restriction on Monday, along with a ban on her being allowed to text or drink alcohol, but the judge refused to budge. Regardless of whether Jones did try out for the 2012 Ben-Gal squad, and even if she was able to perform routines with finesse despite her clunky ankle jewelry, Jones should no longer be eligible to cheer for the Cincinnati Bengals. The General Information posted on Cincinnati Bengals website in regards to the Ben-Gal Cheerleaders clearly states that all candidates must "Represent the Cincinnati Bengals organization by actively supporting the team, values and goals of the Club." It seems the actions of Sarah Jones clearly violate this code of conduct. Having sex with a minor, and even worse a student at a school where she taught, is above and beyond a lack of good values. Hopefully the 2012 Ben-Gal squad will be announced soon, and without Sarah Jones among them. At least at that point the national media, which is so fervently covering her case, will begin referring to her as a former Ben-Gal cheerleader.
A teacher identified as Breanne Nicole Brown was arrested in Texas after allegedly having a physical relationship with a 16-year-old victim. Prior to getting busted, the 30-year-old worked at Abilene High School where she taught English and Language Arts.Thus far, the school district hasn’t indicated whether the alleged victim was a student. However, police say that their relationship continued even after she was made aware that there was an ongoing investigation into the matter. Breanne Nicole Brown now faces a felony of the second degree and has already stepped down from her job. As you can see in the pictures below, she was quite the dazzling teacher prior to this situation. It’s too bad that her career now appears to be history.
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Kathryn Ronk
An Oakland County judge came down hard Tuesday on a 30-year-old former high school teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 15-year-old student.
"If this was a male teacher who had been involved with a 15-year-old female, there would be people here hanging from the ceiling trying to get every drop of blood," Grant said. "But because it is a woman, there seems to be a winking about what happened."
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Ethel Anderson
A female teacher found guilty of having sex with a 12-year-old student has been sentenced to 38 years in prison today. Married mother Ethel Anderson, 31, was told she was a 'parents' worst nightmare,' on Monday as she was jailed in Tampa, Florida. Judge Chet Tharpe told Anderson in court that she manipulated the boy's parents into believing he was safe and groomed the child for sex. Anderson was charged with nine counts of molesting a student after it was discovered that she was having sex with a boy who was 12-years-old at the time.
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Jennifer Riojas,
former teacher at Carter-Riverside High School, Fort Worth, Texas has pleaded guilty to having an improper relationship between an educator and a student. She accepted six years' deferred adjudication and probation, and forfeits her teaching certificate in Texas.According to the arrest affidavit, Riojas had sex with an underage football player who she taught last year Fort Worth police said the student came forward because he was worried that he could be the father of Riojas’ unborn child. The student told police they had sexual intercourse for the first time when he was hospitalized for a football injury when he was 16 years old. Riojas and the student, who is now 17, also had sex at different hotels near Northeast Mall, according to the arrest affidavit. So far Riojas has denied the allegations. She said that her relationship with the students may have been too friendly but denied doing anything inappropriate. It is not known who the father of Riojas’ unborn child is.
The Louisiana teachers who allegedly engaged in group sex with a male student are free after posting $7,000 cash bond, as new disturbing details emerged about the case.
Destrehan High School English teacher Shelley Dufresne, 32, “enticed and transported” the student to the apartment of Rachel Respess, the other English instructor involved in the ménage à trois, according to NOLA.com. Once they were there, Respess had sex with the teen while Dufresne “began intimately kissing (Respess) in an attempt to arouse all parties involved, all who were complete(ly) disrobed,” according to authorities. It also appeared that Dufresne had other sexual encounters with the student prior to the group sex incident, which took place on Sept. 12. She is currently only allowed to leave her home for intensive mental health treatment, doctor’s appointments and church as part of her condition of her release. She faces jail if she doesn’t provide proof of her mental health treatment, according to USA Today.
Respess turned herself into Kenner police Wednesday morning, according to the paper. The 24-year-old was arrested and charged with felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile, indecent behavior and contributing to delinquency of a minor “No matter what the sex of the victim is, everyone should be outraged,” said Kenner Police Chief Michael Glaser during a Wednesday press conference. “You have an educator whose responsibility is the safety and education of children, and when it goes outside those lines I do believe the community should be outraged.” The boy was 16 when the three-way happened, which makes him a juvenile under Louisiana law — though now 17, he told investigators he consented to the sex. He reportedly bragged about the encounter to other students on Sept. 26. Kenner Police Chief Mike Glaser said Respess “almost” confessed to having sex with the student but stopped short of giving a full confession. Dufresne has not submitted a statement to police
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Hope Jacoby,
The athletic trainer at Tustin High School in Orange County, Calif., was arrested Christmas Eve 2008 on suspicion of oral copulation of a minor and unlawful sex with a minor. Jacoby had worked with athletes at the school for the last year. "Even though the age gap may be fairly close, it's still illegal and we will arrest," a Sheriff's Department spokesman said. On July 29, 2009, Jacoby was sentenced to three years of informal probation and 240 hours of community service for her crime.
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Pamela Rogers Turner:
Former model and beauty-pageant contestant also taught at Centertown Elementary School in McMinnville, Tenn. She was arrested in February 2005 for allegedly having a three-month sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy. She resigned her teaching position and was charged with 15 counts of sexual battery and 13 counts of statutory rape. Originally sentenced to 270 days in August 2005, she got in additional trouble in April 2006 for sending text messages, nude photos, and sex videos of herself to the same boy while using her father's cellphone. In July 2006, she was sentenced to serve eight years for violating her probation, and in January 2007, was given an additional two years for sending the photos.
A female Waiakea High School teacher was put on administrative leave after allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old male student. Because the student is older than the state’s age of consent, 16, it is unlikely criminal charges will be pursued by law enforcement, but the teacher, Nancy Ballo, is no longer teaching at the school while a state Department of Education investigation continues.
“We haven’t fired anybody,” said Principal Kelcy Koga, adding administrators are very limited in what they can discuss while the investigation is ongoing. “There have been allegations, none of which I can really get into, I’m not able to release what the allegations are,” he said. “Like any other teacher being investigated, they all have to go through a similar process for conduct, regardless of whether it’s sexual relations with a student, or finances have gone missing, or whatever it is. Teachers have to go through the same process.”
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Debra LaFave,
Tampa, Fla., area teacher received no jail time despite having sex with her 14-year-old male student in a classroom and her Hillsborough County home. In another county, Marion, she was accused of having sex with the boy in an SUV. LaFave claimed at a March 2006 news conference she had a bipolar disorder. The boy's father said LaFave should have received prison time in her plea deal, noting, "It's a horrible, ugly thing that she's done."
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