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NEW YORK -- A Dutchess County special education teacher has been accused of having sex with a 15-year-old disabled student. Teacher Mandi Weeks, 27, was arrested on Monday in Queens. She admitted to having sex with her student at the Devereux Foundation NY Center for the past month, according to police. Weeks is being charged with two counts of rape with a child under the age of 21 and two acts of acting in a manner to injure a child under the age of 17. The student was in the school’s residential program and lived on campus. He had been...

What makes a grown woman pursue a guy who gets carded at R-rated movies, lives with his parents who give him an allowance and, who if your actions are revealed, would ruin your reputation and possibly land you in jail? Theories abound. Some might surprise you. Like how mentally, they are about the same age.Sexual abuse involving older women and teen boys is an underreported crime, one that experts say has been largely ignored by the public, legal system and academic researchers for reasons including sexual double standards and evidence suggesting teen boys often are willing participants. But that attitude...

Apologizing for his actions in a case where he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl, Nathan St. Pierre told a judge on Monday that he stood before the court "broken and contrite." On Monday, Vanderburgh Circuit Court Judge Carl Heldt sentenced St. Pierre, 26, to seven years in the Indiana Department of Correction, to be followed by 10 years as a registered sex offender. St. Pierre previously pleaded guilty to three class B felony charges of sexual misconduct with a minor. He was accused of having a sexual relationship with a girl who was a...

CHICAGO -- The principal of Spring Grove Elementary School was in a Wisconsin jail Tuesday night on charges of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl. Daniel Markofsky, 47, of Richmond, was caught over the weekend in Glendale, Wis., at a Super Motel 8 with two teen sisters, 15 and 16, according to police. Police alleged Markofsky and the two girls were smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol and watching pornographic material. The sisters were from the Milwaukee area, according to police. The Chicago Tribune reported that on Saturday a Glendale police officer knocked on the door of his room after smelling marijuana, according...

The teacher guilty of having sex with a student at Brighton Collegiate High School is in jail for violating terms of her probation — namely having sex with another parolee and testing positive for alcohol consumption. Carrie McCandless began serving a 30-day jail sentence at the Larimer County Detention Center Friday after voluntarily turning herself in to Weld County Probation officials. She did not appear in court to contest the violations, according to Larimer County district attorney officials. McCandless waived the court appearance by signing documents dated March 13. The sexual encounter was discovered on March 6 when a parole...

RAINIER, Wash. -- A Rainier teacher's assistant faced a judge Monday on drug and sex abuse charges. Jan Gleaves sexually abused teen boys and served them alcohol and marijuana at her apartment, Columbia County officials said. They began investigating the case in December when a Rainier mother said she found some posts from Gleaves on her son's MySpace page. Gleaves was a teaching assistant in the St. Helens School District. Officials don’t think the allegations involve any kids from the school district where she worked.

A Leavenworth man is accused of having unlawful sexual relations with high school students while working as a substitute teacher. Mohamed A. Dirshe, 26, has been charged with three counts of unlawful sexual relations and three counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor for illicit purposes, all felonies, according to court records. His next court appearance is scheduled for Friday. Dirshe was taken into custody by the sheriff’s office March 17 after a warrant was issued for his arrest, according to Detective Sgt. Robert Mendoza, Leavenworth Police Department. Dirshe is accused of inviting students to his home, giving them alcohol...

Teacher Misconduct Cases in FloridaLast Updated: 6:44 PM Jan 3, 2008 Reporter: Chris Casquejo Last school year, more than 4,000 teachers in Florida were investigated for misconduct, but just 300 disciplinary actions show up on a state website. The numbers do little to comfort parents. “Anything that’s inappropriate with a child should be taken care of. They should be barred by the school board where they should not be able to teach again,” says Shelley Gandy. Key lawmakers say the days of quietly firing a bad teacher are over. A Senate study on teacher misconduct found that some Florida school...

Accused of touching two middle school girls By KIM NGUYEN THE GAZETTE December 21, 2007 - 5:52AM A seventh-grade mathematics teacher at Lewis-Palmer Middle School in Monument could face charges of sexual assault for allegedly touching female students inappropriately, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies on Thursday arrested Gregory Jackson, 34, who could face two felony counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. Jackson, who also coaches the girls volleyball and basketball teams at the school, was being held at the El Paso County jail on $25,000 bail. According to an...

A 35-year-old Sacred Heart Cathedral School second-grade teacher was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of having sexual contact with a student at the school. Tabitha Adams is currently being held in the Ford County Detention Center on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Her bond was set at $500,000, and her preliminary hearing was tentatively set for Dec. 27. Adams, who has taught at the private Catholic school for the past three years, was arrested after the Dodge City Police Department presented the school's principal with a search warrant Monday....

I'm sorry, but if teachers or coaches seduce high school students, they ought to spend some time in jail. That's not been happening around here lately. - Erin McLean, 29, a student teacher at West High School, had an affair with a male student that led to his death. She left town, got another teaching job in Nashville, tried to seduce another boy, then skipped out when that came to light. Prosecution has not been pursued. - David Higgins, 51, a West High ROTC instructor, videotaped female cadets changing clothes and convinced them to disrobe and perform stunts. He got...

September 17, 2007, Canton, MI – Former Plymouth Christian Academy teacher Stephanie Ann Stein, 31 of Canton, was arraigned in 35th District court today on charges stemming from a relationship with a 15-year old student she befriended during this past school year.

I took my future stepdaughter to her high school orientation a few weeks back. When we got to our designated area and as we were waiting in line I noticed that the student volunteer who was handing out our group's schedules had her ass hanging out of her pants, clearly displaying her lower back tattoo. In any other situation I'd be thinking something else, but in this particular one I was none too keen on having my future kid see this. Once all the schedules were passed out the student got up to talk to the group, and as it...

SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C – A North Carolina High School that came under national attention over their rule that prohibited students from wearing items with the American flag, or any flag from other countries, has lifted the ban. Previous Story: High School Bans American Flag (09-11-07)

<p>ALBUQUERQUE — A former Albuquerque Public School teacher is charged with four counts of felony voyeurism after being accused of using a video camera to shoot up the skirts of young girls at an amusement park.</p> <p>Christopher Lucero, 24, was arrested about 7 p.m. Monday at his home in northwest Albuquerque after allegedly stalking and taking pictures of girls over the weekend at Cliff's Amusement Park.</p>

The Delaware House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday that eliminates the two-year statute of limitations for child abuse for suits for damages due to personal injuries caused by the sexual abuse of a child by an adult. Now, in Delaware, the victim of sexual abuse will have more time to sue for civil damages. The statute was two years. Under the new legislation it will be 25 years, the second longest statute of limitations in the country. But wait! Does this new statute of limitations apply to everyone? Durn ... I'm sure glad you asked. Turns out it...

House lawmakers in Delaware approved a bill yesterday that eliminated the two-year statute of limitations for victims of child sex abuse, but it does not apply to public school teachers. An attempt by Rep. Greg Lavelle to pass an amendment waiving immunity for government workers failed (he will try again). The bill now goes back to the Senate. Leading the charge to protect the teachers is Sen. Karen Peterson. Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented as follows: “The degree of corruption in the Delaware legislature is matched only by the selective indignation its lawmakers have for child rape. The legislators...

WILMINGTON (AP) — A 40-year-old high school science teacher and cross country coach who once worked in Guilford County has resigned his position and married a 16-year-old student. Brenton Wuchae coached Windy Hager at South Brunswick High School, where she recently completed her sophomore year as one of the school's top runners. He also lives less than two miles away from the Hagers' home on Oak Island. Wuchae married Hager in Brunswick County on Monday, according to a marriage license. Hager's parents, Dennis and Betty Hager, said they did all they could to keep the couple apart after noticing a...

A middle school teacher in Prescott, Wis. has been fired and the Pierce County Sheriff is investigating claims she had sex with a 13-year old student. "It's just shocking to hit Prescott like this," said Tom Riley a Prescott resident. The 38-year old woman was a substitute at Prescott Middle School. The student's father says he found the two having a middle of the night rendezvous together at the teacher's home after the boy stole his mother's car. Sources said the woman's husband, and 13-year-old daughter were home at the time. The father filed a restraining order which claims the...

Teacher Accused Of Stealing Student's Coat, Putting It On eBay By HOLLY DANKS And MELISSA NAVAS  — Thursday May 03, 2007   Teacher Elizabeth Logan is accused of stealing a third-grader's coat and trying to sell it on eBay     HILLSBORO, Ore. — "I told her, 'Be sure not to lose this coat,''' the third-grader's mother remembers reminding the girl."It's expensive, and I usually didn't let her wear it to school. But it was cold.''The 8-year-old promised. But on Jan. 10 she came home in tears. She had become warm during recess on the Jackson Elementary School playground and took...

A former principal who kissed the feet of three male students to settle a bet on a volleyball game entered a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor sex charge. Holloway told authorities he paid each student $15 and kissed their bare feet 50 times each in the school's library and gym to pay off the bet on a student-teacher volleyball game. "It's not behind me yet," Holloway said as he left court. Carpentiere said 400 photos depicting adult foot fetish behavior were found on two school computers seized from Holloway's office. The photos depicted the scenarios that he had engaged in...

The study found that good-looking defendants were more likely to be cleared by jurors in a court Good looks could help guilty defendants dodge justice, researchers have said. They reported that in an experiment jurors were more likely to convict suspects deemed ugly than those seen as attractive. It is thought that the principle applies elsewhere in life, with beauty being associated with kindness, intelligence and sporting ability. The researchers at Bath Spa University came to their conclusions after asking 96 volunteers to read a transcript of a fictitious mugging case. Half of the participants were given a picture of...

SAN DIEGO - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to suspend a dress code at a suburban San Diego high school that was challenged by a student who wore a T-shirt with anti-gay language. Tyler Chase Harper sued the Poway Unified School District in 2004 to overturn a policy calling for schools to reduce or prevent "hate behavior," including threats and attacks based on sexual orientation. Harper had been pulled from class for wearing a T-shirt that read, "Homosexuality is shameful" on the front and, "Be ashamed. Our school has embraced what God has condemned," on the back. His lawsuit...

A high school art teacher who sparked controversy when his off-hours work as a so-called "butt-printing artist" became known has been fired. The Chesterfield County School Board, in a unanimous voice vote, decided to terminate Stephen Murmer at a meeting Tuesday night, spokeswoman Debra Marlow said. The vote came during a nearly three-hour meeting during which the board heard Chesterfield superintendent Marcus J. Newsome's recommendation that Murmer be fired during a portion of the meeting closed to the public. Murmer and his lawyer, Jason Anthony, also had an opportunity to present their case in closed session, she said. The voice...

LINDEN:A city high school physical education teacher was arrested Saturday after a cell phone left in a burglarized car led Clark police to his Linden home. Theodore Tyburczy, 22, was charged with auto theft and defiant trespass and released. Police found Tyburczy after responding to a car burglary on Madison Hill Road in Clark Saturday morning. Nothing was missing from the car, although police said someone appeared to have tried hot-wiring the vehicle. A cell phone not belonging to the owner was found inside, and police traced the phone to Tyburczy's home. Nearby, they found a car reported stolen earlier...

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...

Supreme Court to hear teacher porn issue Madison - The state Supreme Court will decide whether pornographic images found on the school computer of a fired Cedarburg teacher should be made public, attorneys in the case said today. Robert Zellner, a Cedarburg High School teacher who was fired in January for viewing pornography on his computer, filed a court action to stop 1,500 "adult images" found on his computer from being released. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had requested the release under the state open records act. An Ozaukee County Circuit Court judge ruled that the images are a public record,...

LARGO - A veteran Gibbs High School teacher with a long history of work troubles had falsified hundreds of student ballots in an attempt to get her niece elected homecoming queen in September. A wave of chuckles rose during Tuesday's School Board meeting, where Lerner and other board members were asked to approve a 25-day unpaid suspension for the teacher, Sharion Thurman, 56. So why not fire the teacher, who earns more than $50,000 a year? Her 20-year record includes numerous reprimands for poor judgment, insubordination and misconduct. Superintendent Clayton Wilcox said firing was an option. But he looked at...

Ex-aide accused of stripping gets prison 1 hour, 23 minutes ago SOUTH BEND, Ind. - A former teacher's aide who prosecutors said stripped naked before students in a classroom and touched herself in a seductive manner has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison. A judge sentenced Schmeca White, a former Greene Intermediate Center classroom aide, on Wednesday, ordering her to also register as a sex offender and serve four years on probation after her release from prison. White, 28, was convicted last month on charges of sexual misconduct with a minor, vicarious sexual gratification and battery. She...

Even though student molestations seem to be reaching epidemic proportions in schools across America, the House of Representatives has approved a tough new anti-drug and anti-weapon law that would require local districts to develop search policies – including strip searches – with immunity against prosecution for teachers and staff.

Ex-teacher gets 15 to life for molesting students VISTA -- A former Escondido middle school teacher -- denounced by victims' families as a predator and praised by his family and friends as a decent man who would never harm children ---- was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years to life in state prison. Peter Thomas Ziskin, 44, of Solana Beach was convicted in May of 17 of the 26 child molestation charges prosecutors had filed against him. Ziskin was acquitted of six of the charges, and jurors were unable to reach a verdict on three counts. The charges involved allegations that...

KUTV) SOUTH JORDAN A former high school teacher accused of having sex with a student was severely beaten inside her home. Thirty-year-old Melinda Lee Deluca told police she came home Friday afternoon and was alone when she was jumped from behind. Police said she was beaten so badly that she was flown by medical helicopter to the hospital from her home in South Jordan. Deluca was recently accused of having sex with one of her students at Copper Hills High School in West Jordan. Police believe the assault could be related to the charges. “It does appear that this is...

Activist: Clubs Promoting Risky Behavior Should Be Booted from Campus (AgapePress) - A Michigan school board is defying the requests of parents who want Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs banned in the district. Despite the objections of concerned parents, the Forest Hills School Board has vowed it will not shut down three GSA clubs in the district. The board claims the federal Equal Access Act requires schools to allow sex-based clubs. But Gary Glenn, director of the American Family Association of Michigan, says schools can ban student groups that promote risky behavior -- and it has already been done, he...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The state Board of Education stepped in Wednesday to defend a law that prohibits teachers from having sex with students. The board voted unanimously to ask state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to file a legal brief on its behalf opposing a court challenge by a New Haven teacher convicted of having sex with two students, ages 16 and 17. The case, which is before the state Supreme Court, questions the constitutionality of a state law that bans teachers from sexual contact with students even if they are older than the age of consent, which is 16. The...

Students wrapping up school in the southwestern Swedish town of Vänersborg were in for a surprise last week when two of their teachers stripped off their clothes and danced with balloons over their nether regions. The two male teachers, during an end-of-the-year celebration, performed what Swedes call the “Balloon Dance,” for 140 ninth grade students. “I was shocked when my daughter told me,” said a mother of a student to newspaper GT. The principle of the school has spoken with the teachers regarding the dance. Another teacher at the school said it would have been unsuitable for teachers to have...

The parents of a severely disabled woman suing a Colorado Springs school district over a sexual assault at a high school said the district has refused to mediate a civil lawsuit as one of its experts called the attack "pleasurable" for the woman. Kalie McArthur, now 20 and with an IQ of about 50, was assaulted in September 2004 at Rampart High School by a 15-year-old boy assigned as a peer trainer, said Jeff Weeks, an attorney for the girl and her parents. The boy, who had been suspended 20 times in the previous year and had a 0.0 grade...