Florida teachers among 50 charged in online child-sex sting

Fox News ^ | January 14, 2013

[Sopater]

Two teachers and two other school employees were among 50 people arrested as part of an online child-sex sting in central Florida, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.

"Operation Cardea" targeted people who use the Internet to sexually exploit children, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said, and the suspects were arrested over the past week, including four men arrested late Sunday night.

The list of those arrested includes two local school teachers and two other employees at local schools. Jorge Daniel Ferreira, a science teacher at Ocoee Middle School, was one of those arrested. Orange County Schools officials tell Fox 35 that Ferreira has been with the school district since 2002 and passed a Florida Department of Law Enforcement background check when he was hired.

Also arrested were David Miller, a translator with Orange County Schools; Duncan St. Gelais, a teacher at New Smyrna Beach High School in Volusia County; and Anthony Wilks, a janitor with Seminole County Schools.

[Sopater]

Schools are among the most UNSAFE places in this country for our children.

[edcoil]

Predators go where the prey are.

[patriot08]

It’s a sick world.

[for-q-clinton]

Well according to Obama and Biden if we can save just one life we must act...so let’s close down all the schools.

[SAMWolf]

The odds are better that your kid will be molested by a teacher than the odds for him/her being killed in a mass murder. If it saves even one child, maybe we should ban teachers.

[Noamie]

“Schools are among the most UNSAFE places in this country for our children.”

If Catholic Priests are so scary then what does that make public school teachers??

I know of 5 teachers over the past 10 years in my home town of just 15,000 people who were caught with students. That’s the 5 that got caught, I mean.

This “teachers shagging kids” thing is a crisis that the media turns yet another blind eye towards while absolutely “crushing” a major US religion for the same thing.

[Sopater]

This “teachers shagging kids” thing is a crisis that the media turns yet another blind eye towards while absolutely “crushing” a major US religion for the same thing.

You're absolutely correct. I believe that it's a matter of "standards". The "church" is held to a higher standard than the state. This simply proves that the media is more concerned about tearing down those whom they see as a threat to their humanist position than they are about the well being of children. Its not about the children... never was.