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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A former Volusia County teacher was out of jail Thursday and facing charges of having a lengthy sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student. ast week, the teacher at Warner Christian Academy resigned amid the accusations. She was arrested Wednesday. South Daytona police confirmed to Eyewitness News that they are back on the case and there may have been sexual incidents in the school, possibly at the teacher's home and said it has been happening since last school year. Warner Christian students told police they had seen text messages on the boy's phone from someone named "Madeline."...

After nearly two years of turmoil, Eric McLean finally found peace, but he insists it came days before a jury on Thursday snatched him from a potential prison cell and planted him at the door to probation. "I've never been to court to know what to expect," the 33-year-old North Knoxville man said. "I was physically ill when this trial started (nine days ago). But once I got to tell my story, once I got to get this off my chest, I felt like a weight had been lifted off my chest." It was that day when McLean took the...

CLINTON, N.C. - A former North Carolina middle school teacher accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student has been arrested again after police found her with the same boy. Jeannie Michelle Hodges resigned as a language arts teacher from Hobbton Middle School just before she was charged in July with statutory rape and accused of having an affair with a former student. Released on bond, the 40-year-old Autryville woman was ordered to stay away from the boy. But WRAL-TV reports Friday that Hodges was arrested Aug. 30 after authorities stopped her car at a checkpoint. The teen was driving,...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A body found in an Iowa City park has been identified as a missing University of Iowa professor accused of offering higher grades to female students in exchange for sexual favors.

Two former Turlock Christian School teachers accused of sending sexually explicit cell phone messages to a 16-year-old female student will face criminal charges, the Stanislaus County district attorney's office said Tuesday. The suspects -- Amy Northcutt, 26, and Justin Northcutt, 27 -- are married. They were arrested in early June, shortly after the school year ended. They are accused of sending messages and photos to arrange group sex with the girl, said Sheriff's Department spokesman Royjindar Singh. The Northcutts are scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 3. The district attorney's office could not specify what charges they will face, and the...

TAMPA - The ankle monitor has come off. Schoolteacher-turned-sex-offender Debra Lafave no longer will have to provide Florida Department of Corrections officials her daily schedule, and they no longer will keep minute-by-minute track of her whereabouts. With Lafave having served more than 2 1/2 years of a three-year house-arrest sentence, a judge commuted the final five months to probation. She will remain on probation for seven years. Probation officials were to remove Lafave's electronic ankle monitor at their Plant City office this morning, said DOC spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger. Shortly before 10 a.m., officials in Plant City said Lafave already had...

APRIL 3--A Wisconsin woman who was charged two weeks ago with having sex with a teenage boy was arrested again yesterday when cops went to her residence and found her there with the child. Jaime Foss, 31, was immediately jailed for violating bail terms imposed after she was charged March 19 with three counts of sexual assault of a child. Foss, who was nabbed shortly before she was due in court on the original charges, is pictured in the below mug shots, which were snapped after yesterday's bust and her initial arrest. As part of her bail package, Foss was...

Jason Eickmeyer was a 15-year-old sophomore at Hammonton High School in New Jersey the night he said he had sex with his gym teacher. From that moment on, he counted the days until he would be old enough to marry her. Male classmates who heard the rumors would nudge him on the shoulder, he said, and give him a knowing smile. "I got respect," he said. Two years later, after the police came to his house and took his statement against teacher Traci Tapp, Mr. Eickmeyer was shunned and mocked. He became a Jay Leno punch line. Friends would ask...

Melissa R. Moss, a teacher in a St. Louis suburb, is charged with e-mailing topless photos of herself to a 15-year old student. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Moss is charged with furnishing pornographic material to a minor. Moss was a teacher at Barat Academy in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, but she no longer works at the school. A school administrator says Moss has not worked at the school for months. St. Louis' FOX 2 News found a Facebook account with comments from some of the teacher’s students that date back to November. The students have written on the social...

MOON TWP. — A Moon Area High School physical education teacher and girls volleyball coach who has admitted to having sex with a 14-year-old male Moon Township freshman could face additional charges, Moon Police Chief Leo McCarthy said Monday. Beth Ann Chester, 26, of 2034 Swallow Hill Road, Scott Township, already is charged with unlawful contact with a minor, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal use of a communication facility, sexual abuse of children, corruption of minors and criminal solicitation. Charges were filed Friday, and she is being held in the Allegheny County Jail on $50,000 bond. McCarthy said...

SPRING, Texas -- A high school teacher has been accused of having sex with a student in a classroom, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday. According to court documents, the assistant principal of Westfield High School caught English teacher Shannon Hrozek performing a sex act on a 16-year-old male student on Jan. 3. Investigators said the two were discovered after a janitor noticed that Hrozek was in a classroom with the student and the lights were off. Hrozek was arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a child. She is out of jail on $50,000 bond and is scheduled to appear...

Associated Press - December 19, 2007 10:14 PM ET GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) - Gilbert Police have arrested a Mesa High School teacher, coach and employee of the Mesa Aquatic Center for sexual contact with a former female student. Gay Lyn Turley, 42, was arrested on ten counts of sexual contact with a minor. Police say the victim was 16 when the offense was initially committed. Turley was being booked into Maricopa County Jail Wednesday evening. Gilbert Police say the adult victim, now 20, reported that from 2003 through 2005, she was involved in a sexual relationship with Turley. Gilbert Police...

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- A Seminole County middle school teacher was arrested Friday after deputies said they discovered her inside a vehicle shortly after she had sex with a 14-year-old boy. Jennifer Tarkenton, 34, of Lake Mary, was arrested on three counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a child 12 or older by a person over the age of 18. Tarkenton is a teacher at Greenwood Lakes Middle School in Lake Mary, according to Seminole County sheriff's investigators. Deputies said they believe that the boy is a student at the school. According to a Seminole County sheriff's report, deputies...

An assistant band director at Keller High School has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. On August 15, police in Keller received the report from a 16-year-old girl. She claims that 25-year-old Aaron Daniel Pompa, one of her band educators, had sexual contact with her three separate times between April and August. The alleged sexual contact took place at Pompa's home. Pompa was arrested at his home on August 17, but was released after posting $10,000 bond. An improper relationship between an educator and a student is a second degree felony. If convicted, Pompa faces as...

Teacher sentenced for having sex with student Posted by The Star-Ledger March 30, 2007 7:28PM Categories: Court news A Perth Amboy middle school teacher was sentenced today to serve up to four years in prison for having repeated sexual relations with a 12-year-old male student. "I can't even begin to tell you how sorry I am," Amy Burke, 32, of Carteret said as the term was imposed by Superior Court Judge Barbara Clark Stolte during a hearing in New Brunswick. Under terms of the sentence, Burke, who is married and the mother of a 3-year-old boy, could become eligible for...

MIDDLETON, Mass. -- A local high school rocked is by scandal after a secretary is fired amidst allegations of partying with underage students.

Dunklin R-5 School District officials said today that a 14-year-old Senn-Thomas Middle student and a substitute teacher who has been accused of having a sexual relationship with him knew each other for several years before she became a substitute teacher. The 21-year-old began working for the district in September 2006 and has taught at all three of its schools, including Herculaneum High School and Pevely Elementary, and she recently volunteered to become an assistant middle school track coach, according to a press release issued by the district.

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. The first-year speech and drama teacher planned to turn himself in to Grand Prairie police this week on charges of improper visual recording, which carries up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Ware shot about two hours of videotape at an all-day tournament Saturday but drew suspicion from a coach, Grand Prairie Sgt. John Brimmer said. A police officer reviewed...

A 45-year-old substitute teacher at a Coral Springs elementary school is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old boy on at least four occasions since October, according to police. Deborah Ann Reeder faces four counts of unlawful sex with a minor, according to Coral Springs police. She was arrested at her home in Coral Springs on Thursday. When police questioned her, she invoked her right to remain silent. Police did not identify the 17-year-old victim. The teenager told his mother about the incidents, and she called Reeder, with police listening in on the call. The victim told police he and...

A teaching assistant was forced to hide her schoolboy lover in a wardrobe when they were almost caught having sex, a court has heard. Linda Ginnetta left the 14-year-old shut away in her bedroom after their affair was nearly exposed when her daughter arrived home, a jury was told. Married mother Ginnetta, 54, had allegedly begun a sexual relationship with the teenager while working at Hamilton Community College in Leicester. She seduced the ‘shocked’ youngster by pinning him against an alleyway wall and kissing him following a trip to the cinema, it was claimed. Their affair allegedly lasted for two...

The seduction started with compliments, sympathetic chats and a comforting touch, authorities said. With time, though, Wayne Hills High School teacher Timothy "Tim" Zisa took it much further, prosecutors said Monday, calling the history instructor and coach "prolific in identifying students to satisfy his sexual desires." Prosecutors allege that Zisa, 33, of Wayne had sex with two 18-year-old female students and engaged in "sexual petting" with a third girl under 18. All were students in Zisa's history classes and one also was on the girls' track team, which he coached until recently, said Joseph Del Russo, chief assistant prosecutor. Reflecting...

AUSTIN — Until they found the topless photos, Austin High School officials considered Tamara Hoover a model art teacher with a knack for helping students find their creative streaks. Now, she's fighting for her job. The photos, which were posted on Flickr.com by her partner, depict Hoover in the shower, lifting weights, getting dressed, in bed and doing other routine activities. Her abrupt dismissal highlights a new concern for employees: Your boss has Internet access, too. "People don't realize when they put their entire diary out there, they're giving very private information to the public," said Kate Brooks, director of...

AISD wants to terminate her 6/13/2006 Austin High School Art Teacher Tamara Hoover has shown her student a lot...! Including her boobs...and now she may get fired for it..! The Austin School Board voted last night to begin the termination process for Mrs. Hoover. Officials say she should not have appeared topless on-line. She has been paid leave since May 19th...and this morning on her My-Space account, she defends the pictures as art and not pornography.

A former high school teacher facing sexual assault charges says his arrest on suspicion of having sexual relations with a student violates a fundamental right guaranteed by both the state and federal constitutions. Matthew Glasser, a former music teacher at Northwest Catholic High School, was arrested last year under a provision of the state's criminal code that makes having sex with students a crime, even if the student has reached 16 - the age of consent. But in a motion filed in Superior Court in Hartford, Glasser claims the statute infringes on his constitutional right to privacy, which, he argues,...