Posted on 02/20/2008 2:57:27 PM PST by csvset
A Granby High School teacher accused of sending improper photos of herself to students via cell phone has been arrested.
Natasha L. Sizow, 24, of Alton Drive in Virginia Beach, was charged with two counts each of indecent liberties and use of a communications device to facilitate crimes against children, according to police and court records. She turned herself in Tuesday night, said Officer Chris Amos, police spokesman.
Schools spokesman Vincent Rhodes said Sizow was a first-year social studies teacher and the girls’ swimming coach at Granby. She was accused of sending photos of herself “in various stages of undress,” said Sgt. Jim Robertson, a police spokesman. The students involved were a male and a female, both age 17, according to Amanda Howie of the commonwealth’s attorney’s office.
The case came to light two weeks ago, when police sought a warrant to search Sizow’s cell phone for electronic data. A detective’s affidavit said that a school resource officer learned about the allegations and reported them.
Sizow initially was put on paid leave. As a result of the charges, that was being changed to leave without pay, Rhodes said Wednesday.
Sizow was released on $5,000 bond, said Maj. Michael O’Toole of the sheriff’s department. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for April 2, Howie said.
Matthew Roy, (757) 446-2540, matthew.roy@pilotonline.com
Damn, sailors must have raised their standards a lot to force this poor idiotic woman to not be able to find a guy her own age.
Put me on her mailing list, please!
Obviously, I have no idea about the underlying facts of this case (heh-heh.. get it... heh-heh), but you can’t be going all medieval on her case cause she sent out a couple of photos.
From the description, she has crossed a line. She resigns. The school moves on. Where ARE the photos, anyway?
Heh heh heh
She’s a predator
Exactly my thoughts. What is wrong with these people???
She looks A LOT older than 24
“How da hell I know she’s 13. Hell, she looked at least 15.”
-— Amgwana “Kick” Booty, coach of the Bloods from H.Rap Brown Jr. High School, when asked about his record.
No matter how many articles like this there are in the media, parents still delude themselves that this is not happening in their child’s school.
I was lucky to grow up in a stellar Chicago suburb, Oak Park, which placed and still does place great emphasis on education for the chillun of the village. Teachers at all the public grammar and high schools are carefully chosen. Discipline is enforced.
A superbly-educated Ernest Hemingway graduated from my high school....of course, he was much older than I, LOL.
Leni
I have to respectfully dissent on this case.
I plead the fifth.....
Guilty
I'm betting the rate really hasn't increased that much in the past 50 years . . . just more well-known now.
I’m not that old, but, in the early ‘60s I had the same teacher that taught Richard Nixon in the ‘30s. She was not a young blond.
Just the way she likes 'em!
My 23-Year-Old nephew is a Math teacher in High School. I asked him how he related to his students, if he was their pal, or if he kept his distance.
He told me that stupid teachers try to befriend the students. These are the teachers who wind up in trouble. He assured me that he was sensible to the trouble one could get in by getting involved in any kind of a personal relationship with students, and kept all interaction on a arms-length-and-then-some professional basis.
I always knew he was a bright kid.
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