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WEST JORDAN — A former teacher's assistant accused of having sexual intercourse with two 15-year-old students was arrested this week. Andrea Billingsley, 31, was picked up at her home Tuesday and arrested on suspicion of forcible sexual abuse, forcible sodomy and distributing pornographic materials to minors, said West Jordan police officer Dan Roberts. The former aide at West Jordan Middle School, 7550 S. Redwood, met the two boys while overseeing an in-school suspension class, Roberts said. Police believe the sexual encounters occurred between May and July. The alleged sexual activity would happen on school grounds, including an undisclosed location inside...

Published : Monday, 21 Sep 2009, 4:52 PM EDT * By WISDOM MARTIN/myfoxdc FRANCONIA, Va. - Police in Virginia say a 27-year-old Fairfax County school teacher is facing charges after she was caught in a car with a 15-year-old boy early Sunday morning. Investigators say Valerie Roesler of Alexandria is charged with being drunk in public and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. According to Franconia Police, an officer saw Roesler and the 15 year old in a 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer parked in the 7900 block of Gunston Hill Lane just before 2 a.m. on Sunday. They say Roesler...

MERIDIAN - A Meridian teacher is behind bars, and police say she had inappropriate contact with one of her students. The teacher, Ashley Jo Beach, 37, has been arrested on a felony charge of lewd conduct with a child under the age of 16 Officers say they caught Beach in the bushes with a 13-year-old boy Thursday night in Meridian. It started with a call from neighbors in the area of Cherry Lane and Vineyards - who say they saw something suspicious about 9:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they say Beach and the boy were between a fence and some...

OLD BRIDGE -- A drama teacher at Old Bridge High School pleaded guilty today to having a four-month sexual relationship with one of her students last year. Lisa Glide, 35, of Howell Township, tearfully admitted to Superior Court Judge Frederick De Vesa in New Brunswick that she had sexual relations with one of her male students twice. But under questioning by her attorney, Michael Nolan, she said neither time was on high school property.

COVINGTON, Ky. -- Nicole Howell said she was fired from her dream job as an English teacher at Dayton High School after rumors circulated about an alleged improper relationship."Every time I think it's going to end because someone's going to step up and see I didn't do anything wrong, they continue it," said the 26-year-old Howell.Howell said she told the principal about the rumors after she heard them."I told him then and there, I've never had sex with this student," Howell said. "I have never seen him. I have never even seen him off campus."The 16-year-old football player did not...

A 21-year-old Omaha man testified that his life hasn't been the same since a Millard middle school teacher, more than twice his age, took his virginity while he was in eighth grade. The man, 14 at the time of the alleged assault, said he began smoking marijuana to cope with the pain of being molested. He cut and burned himself and stopped going to high school because he couldn't trust his teachers. He also had trust problems with friends, especially girls. Prosecutors accuse Stephanie Draper, 36, of Blair, Neb., of having a sexual relationship in 2002 with the boy she...

Police have arrested a former Bourbon County High School special education teacher on charges of having sex with an under aged student. Investigators say Melissa Arnett admitted to having sex with a sixteen-year-old student at least five times over the course of two months. According to the investigation, at the beginning of June the student's mother called police with information that her son had been sleeping with the 33-year-old teacher. When officers confronted Arnett with the accusations, police say she confessed and resigned from the high school. Officers say Arnett often drove the student out of the county to have...

NEWPORT BEACH – A female high school athletic trainer pleaded guilty today to having an unlawful sexual relationship for one year with a male high school student. Hope Ashley Jacoby, 24, San Juan Capistrano, faces three years' probation – including 30 days' Caltrans service – at her sentencing July 29 before Superior Court Commissioner Greg Jones. She pleaded guilty to seven felony counts involving sexual contact with a minor. Jacoby admitted that she had an unlawful sexual relationship in 2008 with a male student she met while working as an athletic trainer at Tustin High School.

Abbie Jane Swogger, a former stripper and special education teacher's aide from New Kensington, Pa., pleaded guilty today to 10 charges stemming from a 2008 arrest warrant which accused her of having sexual contact with teenagers and furnishing them with drugs and alcohol. Swogger, 36, originally faced some 40 charges; however, most of them were dropped by Allegheny County prosecutors in exchange for her guilty plea. Under those terms, the charges she pled guilty to today included involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a minor. "I want to say I'm very, very sorry for hurting anybody -- my family, the families...

A 22-year-old Marysville woman convicted in April of having sex with a 14-year-old Redding boy was sentenced Friday to 180 days in jail and must register as a sex offender for the rest of her life. Jacquelynn Faye Fielding must report by Monday to sheriff's officials to determine where and how she will be serving her jail sentence. She is "truly remorseful" for her actions and has been thoroughly humiliated, Fielding told Superior Court Judge Bradley Boeckman. But she stopped short of admitting that she had sex with the boy, who is now 15. "I have truly learned my lesson...

When police wanted to question a teacher accused of having an affair with an eighth-grader at a private religious school, she was out of town -- vacationing at Disney World with the student. Upon her return Saturday, 32-year-old Maria Guzman Hernandez, a sixth-grade teacher at Hialeah's Our Lady of Charity, admitted to Hialeah police she'd had sex with the 15-year-old. Hernandez was charged with sexual battery on a child over whom she had custodial authority, a charge similar to statutory rape. The boy's mother, who acknowledged to both police and Department of Children & Families investigators that she approved of...

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. -- A former Greenfield High School music teacher now is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student at her home here. The Lawrence County prosecuting attorney charged Alison Peck, 23, with statutory sodomy and statutory rape on Monday.

The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The justices in January accepted the Safford school district case for review, and will decide whether a campus setting gives school administrators greater discretion to control students suspected of illegal activity than police are allowed in cases involving adults in general public spaces. The case is centered around Savana Redding, now 19, who in 2003 was an eighth-grade honors student at Safford Middle School, about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona. Redding was strip-searched by school...

Michelle Farley, 40, will have to register as a sex offender as part of a plea agreement reached with Ada County prosecutors Friday. Farley was supposed to begin a jury trial on eight charges of sexual battery on April 27 but that has been canceled because of the plea agreement. Farley pleaded guilty to one charge of sexual battery Friday. Prosecutors dismissed the seven others. They plan to recommend that she serve 10 years of probation with the possibility of up to a year in the Ada County Jail.

CHANDLER, Ariz. – An 18-year-old high school student caught with his 48-year-old math teacher in her bedroom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who was himself a former student of hers, police said Tuesday. Chandler police said 20-year-old Sixto Balbuena told them he never meant to kill Samuel Valdivia. He allegedly told police "the blade went in like going into butter" and that he just wanted to show Valdivia how much he hurt him by sleeping with Tamara Hofmann. Balbuena, a Navy sailor on leave from California, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder after police found him...

A convicted sexual offender and former teacher at a private Christian school is behind bars again after she used Facebook to contact minors, Port Orange investigators said. Police on Tuesday arrested Cynthia Horvath, 45, on charges of violating probation. Horvath had been sentenced in February to a year of house arrest followed by seven years' probation for unlawful sex with a minor. She was labeled a sex offender for life and was allowed Internet access but prohibited from contacting minors. Port Orange police Capt. Frank Surmaczewicz said a student at Warner Christian Academy, Horvath's former employer, told her parents she...

UNION CITY, CA -- A female teacher at Union City's Cesar Chavez Middle School has been arrested and charged for allegedly committing lewd acts with a 13-year-old male student, police said today. Anna Kristina Baeta, 38, was arrested after New Haven Unified School District administrators notified police Tuesday that a teacher allegedly had contact that was "sexual in nature" with a student, according to police. The Alameda County District Attorney's Office charged Baeta with multiple counts of lewd acts Thursday, police said. The New Haven Unified School District issued a statement today saying district officials immediately notified police after the...

Another elementary school teacher is being accused of molesting a former student. This time it's happened at Rosa Parks Elementary School in City Heights. The teacher, 35-year old Adrienne Feistel, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy she befriended. The molestation allegedly occurred while the boy was in 7th grade. Feistel's neighbors are in disbelief. "She's always seemed very sweet. Very nice to me. Very loving at her son. This doesn't seem like something she would do," says a neighbor who did not want to be identified. At one point Feistel was reportedly living with the boy's family. She no...

ELKINS -- State Police in Elkins have arrested a 7th grade teacher from Elkins Middle School in Randolph County for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a former student. Troopers arrested Autumn Faulkner, 26, and charged her with sexual abuse by a guardian, they said. Faulkner was having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old juvenile, records indicate. State Police obtained a search warrant and entered Faulkner's Beverly home where they found enough evidence to arrest her. Police seized Faulkner's 2004 Pontiac Vibe and a number of other items, they said. The investigation is ongoing and more charges could be filed....

A former Wantagh High School teacher guilty of having had sex with a 16-year-old boy was released on bail Saturday after her arraignment on new charges that she violated a restraining order by sending three letters to the teenager last year while she was in jail.

FARMINGTON — One of the two junior high school teachers accused of having sex with a Bountiful Junior High School student pleaded not guilty to rape and sodomy Monday morning. Valynne Bowers, 39, was arraigned in 2nd District Court, where Judge Michael Allphin also ordered her to have no contact with the alleged victim, who is now 14. Her next court appearance has been set for April 13 for a pretrial conference. Linda Nef, the other BJH teacher accused in the case will be arraigned on March 27.

Yavapai County sheriff's deputies have arrested a teacher at American Heritage Academy on charges of having sex with a student. Deputies went to the school Thursday after the school principal reported catching the teacher and student in a compromising situation. The principal, Leonard Miller, told sheriff's detectives he tried to enter biology teacher Emili Kay Daniels' classroom, but the door was locked. After unlocking it, the principal saw Daniels and a 17-year-old male student near the teacher's desk. The student's pants were undone, exposing his underwear. Both teacher and student initially denied any sexual activity. He separated Daniels and the...

Another South Bay physical education teacher was arrested on suspicion of having an inappropriate relationship with a student — the third in two weeks. Megan Sainsbury, 31, a teacher and former coach at Prospect High School in Saratoga, was arrested Wednesday on three misdemeanor counts of "annoying or molesting'' a 17-year-old student, according to court documents. The alleged misconduct occurred between October 2007 and January 2009. According to court records, Sainsbury and the student kissed and touched, but there is no evidence they had sex. They allegedly exchanged text messages of a romantic nature. Sainsbury bought the teen gifts, including...

A love letter discovered by a mother has led to the arrest of a San Jose physical education teacher who is accused of having an illicit sexual relationship with a student, according to police reports. Rita Brum, 24, a first-year teacher at Mt. Pleasant High School in East San Jose, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges of having sexual relations with a minor — a 17-year-old female student, authorities said. It marks the second time in a week that a female physical education teacher who has worked at a South Bay school was accused of having an illegal...

Christy Lynn Martin, 32, who St. Petersburg police say used a cell phone to exchange pornographic photos with the boy last weekend, was released on $20,000 bail on Sunday. The boy, an eighth-grader who is not being identified, also told investigators he and the Azalea Middle School teacher had a relationship.

Two Bountiful Junior High School teachers are accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old student, after their separate relationships with him spiraled from personal conversations to the exchange of sexual text messages and phone sex, authorities said. On Friday, the Davis County Attorney's Office filed first-degree felony charges of rape and sodomy on a child against Linda R. Nef, 46, and Valynne Bowers, 39. Nef, a Utah studies teacher and cheerleading adviser, and Bowers, who teaches math, each confessed to having sex with the student, said Bountiful Police Lt. Randy Pickett. Until recently, the two teachers did not know about...

Bountiful Jr. High School teacher Valynne Bowers for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 13- or 14-year-old student. The 39-year-old is charged with forcible sodomy and rape of a child. Police say the acts took place at the teacher's home in December. Police say a second teacher will also be arrested for similar charges for having a sexual relationship with the same student. Police say they found out about the crime through this second teacher who came in and confessed. Police do not believe any other teachers or students are involved.

A former teacher at a Christian preparatory school in Sunnyvale was arrested on sexual abuse charges stemming from allegations involving a 13-year-old girl she taught eight years ago. Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety Capt. Doug Moretto said Abigail Anne Holloway, 33, who taught physical education at Kings Academy on North Britton Avenue, was arrested Thursday in Englewood, Colo., where she had been teaching at another Christian school. Holloway is expected to have an extradition hearing in Colorado and be transferred to the Santa Clara County Jail next week, Morretto said. He described the arrest warrant as containing "multiple counts of...

Two Bountiful Junior High School teachers are accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old student, after their separate relationships with him spiraled from personal conversations to the exchange of sexual text messages and phone sex, authorities said. On Friday, the Davis County Attorney's Office filed first-degree felony charges of rape and sodomy on a child against Linda R. Nef, 46, and Valynne Bowers, 39. Nef, a Utah studies teacher and cheerleading adviser, and Bowers, who teaches math, each confessed to having sex with the student, said Bountiful Police Lt. Randy Pickett. Until recently, the two teachers did not know about...

The "but" being that it involves 2 teachers, both female, having sex with the same male middle school student, 13 years old. Things just continue to get weirder and weirder.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- A physical education teacher at Saint Mary's Academy in Englewood was arrested this week at school, accused of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old female student in California. Abigail Anne Holloway, 33, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon by Cherry Hills Village police officers acting on a California arrest warrant. Sgt. Patrick Weathers took her to jail and told 7news she was very calm and quiet and made no statements.

NINETY SIX, S.C. -- An Upstate middle school teacher remained jailed Monday after being charged with having sex with a student. Angel Simmons Lindle, 37, was arrested Friday and charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor. At a hearing Saturday morning, her bond was set at $126,000.

Student, 15, found in W.Va. hotel with teacher February 24, 2009 09:56 AM By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff Police found a missing 15-year-old Holyoke boy late last night in hotel room in Morgantown, W. Va., with his eighth-grade teacher. The boy, a student at Maurice Donahue Elementary School, "was found to be OK," said Holyoke Police Chief Anthony R. Scott. The teacher Lisa Lavoie, 24, was taken into custody by local police and will be charged with enticement of a child, which is a felony, Scott said.

HOLYOKE — A Holyoke teacher and her 15-year-old male student who had been reported missing have been located in West Virginia. Holyoke Mayor Michael Sullivan tells WWLP-TV in Springfield that police apprehended 24-year-old Lisa Lavoie and the boy in Morgantown, W.Va. at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.

A teacher at a north side non-profit for at-risk youth was charged last week with criminal sexual assault for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old male student of hers, authorities said.

A 37-year-old Edgewood middle school teacher was arrested Friday and is charged with having sex with a student. Angela “Angel” Simmons Lindle is a seventh-grade life science teacher at the middle school. She is currently facing seven counts of Criminal sexual conduct with a minor, 2nd degree. Lindle reportedly told investigators Friday of seven sexual encounters she’s had with a former student who reported the incidences to police the day before. According to Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) reports, Lt. Enlow met with an officer from the Ninety Six Police Department on Thursday, where the alleged victim originally reported the...

GwdToday.com is reporting that 37-year-old Angel Simmons Lindle was arrested Friday and charged with second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

(Baton Rouge) - A former Belaire High School art teacher was put on probation after pleading guilty Tuesday to charges that accused her of having off-campus sex with a 15-year-old male student in the fall 2007. State District Judge Todd Hernandez actually sentenced 29-year-old Kesha D. Manuel to eight years in prison at hard labor on a felony charge of cruelty to a juvenile and six months in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a misdemeanor charge of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, but suspended both terms. Hernandez put Manuel on active supervised probation for five years on the felony...

- A teacher accused of having sex with one of her 14-year-old students will be in court to enter her plea Tuesday. Rosanna Brown taught at Ed Pastor Elementary in Phoenix. On January 31, Sheriff's deputies say Brown lured the 14-year-old boy to a hotel for sex. Deputies say Brown sent the boy text messages saying she was a young girl. The boy then went to the hotel room and was told to keep the lights off. But after the two had sex, the boy turned on the light in his cell phone and saw Brown's face.

Fourth-grade teacher Amber Carter took a half-day of sick leave on Tuesday. Soon after skipping class, she was arrested in a sex sting at the Super 8 Motel in Bellefontaine, Ohio, northwest of Columbus.

STOCKTON, Calif. - A 24-year-old English teacher has been arrested after being accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student, Stockton police said. Christina Oliver works at Ronald E. McNair High School in Stockton and is employed by the Lodi Unified School District, assistant Chief of Police Blair Ulring said. Police said they got a call from a parent who said he thought his son was sexually involved with a teacher at the school.

CHULA VISTA — A South Bay teacher was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of more than 80 counts of sexual abuse stemming from a four-year relationship with her former student and godson that began when the boy was 11, police said. Carmina Erica Lopez, 32, a fifth-grade teacher at Sunnyslope Elementary School in Palm City, was taken into custody about 7:30 p.m. in front of her Mission Hills home, Chula Vista police Lt. Dan Linney said. Investigators believe that Lopez met and began having sex with the boy, who is now 15, when she was his sixth-grade teacher in 2004...

COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- A northern Kentucky high school English teacher has been fired after being accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student. Twenty-five-year-old Nicole Elizabeth Howell taught English class to freshman and sophomore students at Dayton High School.

West Des Moines Police detectives arrested a Dowling High teacher for sexual exploitation by a school employee after the woman allegedly had sex with an 18-year-old male student

TUSTIN – A former athletic trainer at Tustin High School has been arrested on suspicion she had a sexual relationship with an athlete at the school for about a year, authorities said today. School officials became aware of the relationship Friday after they found images on the student's phone believed to be sent by the 23-year-old trainer, said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Hope Jacoby, of San Juan Capistrano, was taken into custody by deputies at the school Friday, the last day of classes before the winter break. Investigators believe Jacoby had sex with the male...

A Dowling High School teacher has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of her students. Twenty-seven-year-old Erin Marie Rohwer has been charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee. The student she's accused of have a relationship with, is an 18-year-old male. Rohwer was arrested at her home Monday night. She was taken to the West Des Moines police station, where she posted a $5,000 bond and was released.

SEATTLE — Washington state law does not bar teachers from having sex with 18-year-old students. That's the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a case brought against Hoquiam High School's former choir teacher. The teacher, Matthew Hirschfelder, was charged with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor. He challenged a judge's refusal to dismiss his case. The appeals court unanimously agreed that the state law is vague, and that the Legislature only intended to forbid sexual contact between school employees and students who are 16 or 17.

The 2008 Sex Scandal Teacher Starting Lineup by Jerry Thornton (jerry@barstoolsports.com) According to one of those websites that lazy writers use to get quotes so they can sound learned, Henry Adams once said "A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops." Often in America... very, very often... that influence doesn't stop until it, and the teacher and the student, have gone all the way and she's being led away in cuffs. A couple of years ago I took America's depraved, student-seducing, good looking female educators and put them in a batting order. I did so thinking...

A married South Shore teacher was living a disturbed double life for nearly two years, police said, allegedly seducing a 13-year-old boy, plying him with booze and having sex with him on kitchen floors and couches, sometimes right under the nose of her husband. Christine A. McCallum, 29, who is on leave from her job at an Abington elementary school, was charged yesterday with seven counts of statutory rape for the serial liaisons in Rockland and Abington from February 2006, when she allegedly took the boy’s virginity, to November 2007. McCallum, a waifish bespeckled blonde who tightly clutched her husband’s...

BROCKTON -- Police described an Abington elementary school teacher today as an obsessive predator who allegedly seduced a 13-year-old boy and carried on a sexual relationship that lasted for 18 months. Christine A. McCallum, 29, had become like a surrogate mother to the teen, who was being raised by a single father, prosecutors said today. That relationship allegedly progressed to snuggling and kissing after McCallum plied the boy with alcohol. Then on Feb. 7, 2006, she allegedly had sex with the teen for the first time, said Assistant Plymouth District Attorney Michael Scott. The boy, who is now 16, told...