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Sexual Abuse in SOcial Context: Catholic Clergy and Other Professionals

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Shelley Allen

Cherokee County, TX - An East Texas teacher's aide is out of jail on bond. She's accused of sexual assault.Cherokee County sheriff's deputies arrested 35-year-old Shelley Allen June 1st at her home in Alto. Detectives arrested and charged her with sexual assault of a child. She's now out of jail on $30,000 bond. If convicted, Allen faces up to 20 years in prison.

Kim Alexander

Stockton, CA - Kim Alexander, 39, a teacher at Bear Creak High School in California has been arrested for allegedly providing a minor with sexually-explicit material as part of an effort to seduce him. According to cops the boy's parents say they found their son in possession of sexually explicit material allegedly given to him by a teacher.

Seneka Arrington

Daytona Beach, Florida - A 22-year-old 9th-grade English teacher at Matanzas High School in Flagler County, Seneka Arrington, has been accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy.

Arrington has been terminated from her teaching position since she was still on probation as a new employee. She has not been charged with a crime, however, the Daytona Beach Police Department has opened an investigation.

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Leslie Baird

UTAH -- Leslie Baird, 42, who worked at THS for six years & most recently as a computer lab coordinator & pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony charge of forcible sexual abuse of a 17-year-old male student shortly after her arrest last year.

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Was sentenced today to undergo a 90-day psychological evaluation at Utah State Prison after pleading guilt to sexually abusing one of her students.

Pamela Balogh

Somerset County, New Jersey - A 39-year-old high school physical education teacher and coach, Pamela Balogh, was arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 15-year-old female student.

Nicole Andrea Barnhart

Denver, CO - A married high school social studies teacher was accused of having a sexual relationship with her underage male student. Nicole Andrea Barnhart, 35, faces charges of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, and for pattern of abuse. Detectives did not identify Barnhart's alleged victim, only to say that he is younger than 18 years old and is a currently a student at Denver's Ponderosa High School. It is revealed that Barnhart had sexual relations with the victim on more than one occasion, assourced said.

Erica Kentoya Bell

Nashvielle, TN - Erica Kentoya Bell, 32, of 505 Piccadilly Row #169 in Antioch, has been charged with two counts of sexual battery and four counts of official misconduct stemming from at least two alleged fondling incidents that occurred at Gra-Mar Middle School.

Bell is accused of engaging in unlawful sexual contact with a then-13-year-old boy and his then-15-year-old sister on separate occasions during December 2005 and January 2006 while the teens were serving in-school suspensions at Gra-Mar Middle.

Janelle Marie Bird

Pensacola, Florida - Last December, Escambia High School reading teacher Janelle Marie Bird turned herself in to police to faces charges of lewd and lascivious battery and unlawful sexual activity with a minor. Bird allegedly had a two-year sexual relationship with a student that started when he was a 14-year-old.

After the allegations became known, the Escambia County School District suspended Bird and later fired her. Subsequent to booking, she was released on bond.

This week, an Escambia County jury found 25-year-old Janelle Bird guilty of two counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and two lesser counts of unnatural and lascivious act. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 4 and faces a possible 30 years in prison.

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Escambia County Circuit Judge Nick Geeker sentenced Bird to a mere two years in prison. I'm a little surprised. The nature of her crimes, two years of sex with a boy starting at age 14, were such that I thought she would surely see a handsome stretch in the slammer. However, I can be faulted for forgetting the first rule of American jurisprudence, females are never as guilty as men in similar circumstances.

Rebecca Boicelli

Redwood City, CA - A 33-year-old teacher has been arrested after D-N-A tests confirmed that a 16-year-old former student fathered her baby. Redwood City police say Rebecca Boicelli was arrested on three charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and statutory rape. Police began investigating Boicelli after another teacher reported odd behavior between her and the student, who is now 18. Boicelli met the boy while teaching at the district's Opportunity School, when he was in middle school

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Renee Marie Burbach

Chiefland, FL. Chiefland police have charged a teacher's aide at New Hope Charter School with seven counts of sexual battery on suspicion that she had intercourse with a 16-year-old male student at the school on multiple occasions in March and April of this year. Renee Marie Burbach, 32, was arrested on April 29 several hours after a custodian reported to police that she saw Burbach kissing the boy at the school that afternoon after class had been dismissed.

Update: In April, Renee Marie Burbach, 33, was sentenced to 10 years of sex offender probation after pleading guilty to two counts of sex acts with a 16-year-old male student at the school.

Amy Burke

A Perth Amboy middle school teacher has been arrested on charges she engaged in a long-running sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student, authorities said.

Amy Burke, 32, who has taught physical education and health at McGinnis Middle School for nearly a decade, first had sexual contact with the boy in March, Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Andrea Carter said. The relationship continued at least through the summer, Carter said.

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Stephanie Burleson

Floresville, TX - A teacher accused of an improper relationship with a student has pleaded guilty to charges. Stephanie Burleson was a volleyball coach and teacher at Floresville High School six years ago, when she was accused of molesting a 16-year-old female student. Burleson pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault and indecency with a child. She was sentenced to ten years probation and must register as a sex offender.

Update: She was sentenced to ten years probation and must register as a sex offender.

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Gwen Ann Cardozo

Colorado Springs, CO - A teacher at Wasson High School has been arrested for allegedly having sex with an underage student. Police arrested Gwen Ann Cardozo, 33, and charged her with sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. Police say Cardozo was sexually active with a 17-year-old male student. A District Eleven spokesperson says Cardozo was a good teacher. She resigned at the end of March as a result of the police investigation. She was booked in the El Paso County criminal justice center and released on five-thousand dollars bond.

Pamela Charles

(Lexington, Kentucky) A 35-year-old Bryan Station High School teacher's aide, Pamela Charles, was arrested yesterday and charged with third-degree rape and sodomy of a 14-year-old middle school student.

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Angela Christine Coffey

NORCROSS, Ga. - Gwinnett County police have arrested a high school teacher on charges that she had sex with her 17-year-old student. Police spokesman Corporal Darren Moloney says officers arrested 33-year-old Angela Christine Coffey of Lilburn -- a teacher at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross.

Frances Cook

Whitfield County, Georgia - A 42-year-old math teacher at Whitfield County Career Academy, Frances Cook, was booked for molestation of a 15-year-old boy. Apparently, Cook was caught in a compromising position with the boy in a parked car behind the elementary school.

Cook faces charges of sexual battery and aggravated child molestation. She has resigned her teaching position.

Tiffany Copley

ST. ALBANS, Vt. -- A former high school teacher accused of sleeping with two 15-year-old boys now faces sexual assualt charges. Tiffany Copley, 25, of Richford, worked at Enosburg Falls High School, before she was fired last week. She pleaded not guilty to the sexual assault charges in court on Monda

Update: A Vermont District Court judge sentenced Tiffany Copley to one to 15 years in prison with all but six months suspended for one count of sexual assault on a minor. After her release, Copley will be barred from any contact with boys younger than 16 who are not her children. She also will have to register with the sex offender registry in any state where she lives while on probation and afterward if required by law.

Kimberly Ann Cordrey-McKinney

Kimberly Ann Cordrey-McKinney, 32, of Chestertown MD, is charged with two counts each of sexual abuse of a minor, child abuse from a custodian, unnatural/perverted sexual practice and second degree assault. Investigation reveled that Cordrey-McKinney apparently met the victim at Kent County High School, where she is a teacher. The victim is a student at the school, but did not have class with the accused teacher.

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Lynn Crisp

A Waskom, Texas, middle school teacher has been arrested on charges she had sex with one of her students.ara Lynn Crisp, 29, is accused of having sex with the student at least three times over the past year, beginning when he was 14. Harrison County Sheriff Tom McCool said investigators believe the alleged incidents happened off campus. Waskom Schools Superintendent Jimmy Cox said crisp is on indefinite suspension with pay while authorities continue their investigation.

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Kelly Lynn Dalecki

St Johns County, FL - A former elementary school teacher pleading no contest to lewd and lascivious battery against a 13-year-old boy. Kelly Lynn Dalecki, 28, teaches in St. Augustine Florida, making her the third Florida teacher to face these kinds of charges. The boy's parents allegedly found more than 50 suggestive e-mails and pornographic photos sent to his e-mail account. He told detectives he had sex with Dalecki several times at the her home in St. Augustine and at Treaty Park both before and after his 14th birthday.

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Melissa Daw Green

(Mobile, Alabama) Melissa Daw Green, a 35-year-old former math teacher at Satsuma High School, has admitted to having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.

Margaret De Barraicua

Sacramento, CA - A 30-year-old teaching intern Margaret De Barraicua was arrested on statutory rape charges after they found her with a 16-year-old male student behind Leonardo Da Vinci Elementary School in a car with the windows steamed up. De Barraicua's toddler was strapped into a car seat in the back when police discovered the pair. According to their report, De Barraicua and the boy are believed to have been having "an ongoing consensual sexual relationship for several months."

Melinda Lee DeLuca

WEST JORDAN, UT - During the fall of 2005, Melinda Lee DeLuca and the boy had sexual intercourse at her home, and in the boy's car at a park near the high school, according to charging documents. Witnesses also saw the teacher and student kissing in the boy's car. DeLuca, who had taught at the high school since 2001, was fired in December 2005, following a school district investigation. Criminal charges were filed in February. DeLuca faced the possibility of up to five years in prison, but pre-sentence investigators and prosecutor Andrea Martinez recommended probation and 60 days in jail.

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"I abhor what you have done here," Judge Stephen Roth said, as he sentenced DeLuca to 90 days in the Salt Lake County jail.

Melissa Michelle Deel

Bristol, TN - A middle school teacher has been charged with having sex with a 13-year-old boy, who was one of her students. Authorities charged 32-year-old Melissa Michelle Deel with felony carnal knowledge and taking indecent liberties with the boy.

Update: Melissa Michelle Deel, age 32, of Bristol, Tennessee, was sentenced to fourteen months in federal prison followed by sixty months supervised release for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a 13 year old student.

Sarah Elizabeth Dickerson

(Normal, Illinois) A 25-year-old Spanish teacher at University High School, Sarah Elizabeth Dickerson, turned herself in to police on Friday to face charges that she engaged in a sexual relationship with a male student. She has been charged with five counts of criminal sexual assault. Dickerson resigned her position with the school last month.

Dickerson was booked into the McLean County Jail and released on $5,000 bail.

[Update 06/27/06]
According to this report, Dickerson was the junior class sponsor and girl's tennis coach in addition to being the Spanish teacher. She had sex with the 17-year-old student at her apartment at least five times in April. The report also indicates that bail was set at $50,000. Added photo.

[Update 07/15/06]
Dickerson formally charged with five counts of criminal sexual assault.

[Update 02/09/07]
Dickerson sentenced.

 

Samantha Drash

Texas - Samantha Drash a 25-year-old teacher with the Brownsville Independent School District was arrested on sexual misconduct charges one day after being indicted by a Cameron County grand jury. Drash is charged with having an inappropriate relationship between educator and student and sexual assault of a child.

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Susanne Eble

Canton Township, MI - A former teacher's aide in Wayne County has pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal sexual conduct. 35-year-old Susanne Eble is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy. Officials with Plymouth-Canton schools say Eble's relationship didn't result from contact she had with him at school. Eble is expected to be back in court next week.

Karen Ellis

Melbourne, Australia - A female teacher who admitted having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old schoolboy might escape jail after a judge said that her victim's consent was a mitigating factor. Karen Ellis, a married mother of three, pleaded guilty in Melbourne magistrate's court to six counts of sexual penetration with a child under her care, which carries a maximum 15-year sentence. The 37-year-old, who no longer works as a physical education teacher, admitted she had unprotected sex with the pupil at her home last year while her husband was away on business

Rhianna Ellis

New York, NY - A Manhattan high school teacher Rhianna Ellis, 24, delivered a healthy baby in February after a 10-month tryst with an 18-year-old student who graduated in June, officials said. Students and staffers at the school, on E. 15th St. in Gramercy Park, identified the boy toy as Cesar Pozo, a good athlete who was popular with classmates. Ellis was chummy with students, showing up at a sweet-16 party last year where she slow-danced with Pozo, and frequently letting kids skip class, students said. Ellis and the youth began having sex in August 2003, when he was 17, according to a report released yesterday by a Special Schools Investigator.

Darcie Esson

Glenwood Springs, Colorado - A 32-year-old English teacher at Elizabeth High School, Darcie Esson, was arrested Monday for allegedly engaging in sex with a 17-year-old student who is on the school football team.

Esson was booked on a felony charge of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. Her bond was set at $25,000.

The sex allegedly occurred in a hotel room in Glenwood Springs where the boy was to play in a high school football playoff game. Along in the hotel room with Esson, who is going through a divorce, were her two children, 4 and 8, and a babysitter. The three kids were believed to be asleep when the student entered the room in the early morning hours to have sex with Esson.

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Carol Flannigan

Boca Raton, FL - Music teacher Carol Flannigan, 50, had sexual relations with an 11-year-old student -- and his dad!!! She was having sex with the boy during sleepovers at her home, in parks, hotels and wooded areas, court papers say. And it looks like dad was hitting it too. “I know I can make you feel good all over," he wrote in a letter. "I hope we can meet this Saturday.” The father also had accepted at least $800 in checks from Flannigan. Cops say she offered the boy money as well. The pair were caught after mom found a naughty message on his cell phone.

Laura Lynn Findlay

Buena Vista Township, MI - A teacher abused her authority to convince some students to have sex with her. Laura Lynn Findlay, 30, faces 20 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly having sex and performing sex acts with five 14 year olds at Ricker Middle School. According to some victims' parents, she would use her position as a teacher to get the eighth grade boys out of class and would bring them to a room to have sexual relations with them.

Laura L. Findlay

Saginaw, Michigan, 30-year-old Laura L. Findlay, band teacher for Ricker Middle School, has been charged with 20 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person under the age of 16. According to Prosecutor Michael D. Thomas, investigators have identified five victims, including a 14-year-old eighth-grader who told his father that Findlay took him to the band room and performed oral sex.

Update: A former middle school band teacher who admitted that she had sexual contact with six male students was sentenced today to seven to 25 years in prison.

Laura L. Findlay, 32, pleaded guilty under an agreement with prosecutors last month in Saginaw County Circuit Court to 22 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person younger than 16.

Judge William A. Crane also ordered Findlay to register as a sex offender and to pay $1,380 in fees and fines.

Beth Friedman

Beth Friedman, 42, was a teacher at Silver Lakes Middle School in North Lauderdale, FL when allegations surfaced of her affair with a young student. Donald Vaden, who was 15 at the time, testified that the teacher-student relationship developed into a sexual one in 1997. When he eventually confessed to his mother that he was involved with Friedman, she and her son went to the police.

Update: A Broward County teacher avoided jail time and was sentenced to one year probation with psychological counseling for her involvement with one of her middle school students.

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Christina Gallagher

(Rahway, New Jersey) Christina Gallagher a 25-year-old Spanish teacher at Rahway High School surrendered to police for having sex with an underage male student.

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Donna Carr Galloway

Anderson, SC - A Westside High School teacher Donna Carr Galloway has been suspended with pay after police say they found her naked in a car with a 17-year-old student. The 33-year-old teacher was completely nude when a state trooper began checking the red sport utility vehicle at 11:30 pm, and the student was wearing a shirt and pulling up his pants.

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Sandra Beth Geisel

Colonie, NY - A former English teacher at Christian Brothers Academy is scheduled to surrender to police to face felony rape charges in connection with two incidents involving a former student. The teacher, 42-year-old Sandra "Beth" Geisel, was fired from her job at the private all-boys school after police in Cohoes allegedly found her in a parked car with another one of her students, who was 17. A police officer who responded to a call for a parked car left running and with its lights on said he found Geisel and the boy in the back seat of the car in the town's hillside neighborhood.

Update: Sandra Beth Geisel, 42, will be sentenced in November 2005 to six months behind bars, including time already served, according to the Albany County District Attorney's office. She also will have to register as a sex offender.

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Jillian Gehrkens

WATERBURY, Conn. -- A Middlebury woman (Jillian Gehrkens) who was a guidance intern at Newtown High School has pleaded guilty to having a sexual affair with a student, a 15-year-old boy.
Gehrkens' affair with the student began in December 2003 and ended sometime after January 2005, according to court documents. Gehrkens was working for the Newtown school district as a paid guidance intern at the time, but left in 2004.

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Under terms of a plea deal, Jillian Gehrkens, 28, will serve nine months of a seven-year suspended sentence at the women's prison in Niantic section of East Lyme.

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Robin Gialanella

Toms River, NJ - A former Toms River Regional district elementary school teacher, who engaged in kissing and inappropriate conduct and conversations with two sixth-grade boys in 2003 and 2004, to 364 days in the Ocean County Jail. Robin Gialanella, 26, kissed the boys, who were 11 and 12 years of age and sixth-graders at the Silver Bay Elementary School, where Gialanella was a math teacher. She also allowed both boys to touch her buttocks.

Update: She was sentenced to 364 days in county jail in Ocean County by Superior Court Judge Edward J. Turnbach.

Brandy Gonzales

The 27-year-old former teacher had oral sex with two boys at the Sharpstown Theater, had sexual contact with two others in her classroom at Piney Point Elementary and had intercourse with another student at her apartment. Each of the students was 11 to 13 years old.

Harriet Laquette Gordon

Tuscaloosa County, AL - Harriet Laquette Gordon, a former school teacher is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy has been indicted on one count of second degree rape for having engaging in what's being called a "mutual sexual affair" at Hillcrest Middle School.

Danielle Grasso

Berlin, Connecticut - A 26-year-old special education teacher's aide, Danielle Grasso, was escorted from Berlin High School on Thursday and arrested for second-degree sexual assault.

Grasso allegedly was involved in a months-long relationship with an 18-year-old student. An investigation was initiated when a group of students were overheard gossiping about the relationship at a local restaurant.

Grasso was booked with bond initially set at $50,000. At her arraignment yesterday, her bond was reduced to $25,000 and a court hearing was scheduled for January 17.

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Melanie Hackett

(Swanton, Vermont) A 24-year-old teaching assistant at Mississquoi Valley Union High School, Melanie Hackett, has been charged for having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student. On Monday, Hackett pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual abuse in Vermont District Court in St. Albans.

According to police, Hackett confessed to engaging in sex with the boy. She has been placed on administrative leave from her teaching duties.

[Update 07/13/06]
Hackett expected to plea down.

[Update 11/09/06]
Plea deal rejected by judge. Hackett going to trial.

[Update 03/03/07]
Hackett sentenced.

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Georgianne Harrell

(Sylvester, Ga) Georgianne Harrell, 24, was indicted last month on 24 charges of child molestation and reckless conduct. Harrell cut her wrists with broken glass in front of her class at Holley Elementary School., according to the indictment. Authorities also say she performed oral sex on a 9-year-old boy in her classroom, let students peek down her blouse and talked to some of the children about sexual matters. Between August 2004 and May, authorities claim she abused a total of 7 students. She has resigned from the school.

Becci M. Hill

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Becci M. Hill, of Martinsville, was accused of having a sexual relationship with the 15-year-old, whom she had mentored at one point, according to authorities. She was a special-needs counselor with the Wayne Township school district in Indianapolis.

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Jennifer Hines

Chiefland, FL. A former teacher's aide at a Levy County charter school was arrested Wednesday amid allegations that she had sex with four male students at the school, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Jennifer Hines, 32, of Old Town, was arrested at her home on three counts of unlawful sexual activity with minors and one count of lewd and lascivious offenses on a minor under 16, the FDLE reported. Hines was working as a teacher's aide at New Hope Charter High School in Chiefland when the alleged incidents occurred in Dixie County between October 2004 and February 2004, said FDLE spokesman Phil Kiracofe. The students, ages 15 to 17, told investigators that on some occasions, Hines drank alcohol and smoked marijuana with them.

Adrianne Hockett

Houston, TX - Adrianne Hockett, 26, a teacher at Hastings High School. Hockett is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old special needs student. Officers say they found the two in a southwest Houston apartment Hockett rented for the liaisons. The boy testified that they would "have sex, drink beer and smoke weed."

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Tammy Lee Huggins

(INVERNESS, Florida) - A 35-year-old central Florida teacher's aide is under arrest on charges she had sex with a 15-year-old male student. Citus County sheriff's officials say Hernando resident Tammy Lee Huggins told detectives she had sex with the Citrus High School student 15 to 20 times since December. She was charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a child.

Update: Tammy Lee Huggins sentenced to three years in prison and also will have to serve another 12 years of sex offender probation when she is released from prison.

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Amber S. Jennings

Dudley, MA - Amber S. Jennings, 31, pleaded innocent to charges of "depicting a minor in sexual conduct, posing a minor in a state of nudity and dissemination of material harmful to minors." That appears to be a fancy way of saying that Jennings, a former English teacher at Shepherd Hill Regional High School allegedly gave a 16-year-old boy pornography and had sex with him over an eight-month period beginning in November 2003.

Update: Under an agreement with prosecutors, the Sturbridge resident will undergo two years of supervised probation for the single charge of disseminating harmful materials to a minor. She could have been sentenced to five years in jail. Ms. Jennings could also be required to register as a sex offender for the next 20 years.

Alyssa Ann Johnson

Mission Viejo, California - A 31-year-old English teacher at Trabuco Hills High School, Alyssa Ann Johnson, was arrested this past week on suspicion of engaging in sex with one of her male students.

Authorities stated the boy is between 14 and 18 years of age and the alleged "substantial sexual contact" occurred last summer.

Christine Marie Johanson

Longview, Washington - On November 6, 35-year-old former teacher's aide at Hudson Park Elementary School in Rainier, Christine Marie Johanson, was indicted by a grand jury on 10 counts of third-degree rape, two counts of third-degree sodomy, 12 counts of second-degree sexual abuse and two counts of furnishing liquor to a minor. All charges resulted from an alleged months-long sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy.

Astonishingly, Johanson was booked and released into her husband's supervision. No bail, just go home and have your husband watch you, honey. Tell me there is no strong stench of bias in this case already. Imagine a man facing the same charges being told to go home and let his wife watch him.

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Elisa Kawasaki

Madera County, CA - Elisa Kawasaki, a first year teacher who started in January at Hanford West in Fresno is being charged with statutory rape of a 16-year-old student. They say the former Hanford West teacher had sexual relations with her student in Madera County on 15 or maybe even 20 different occasions. Right now, Kawasaki faces two counts of unlawful sex with a minor in Kings County. Prosecutors say she met with the 16-year-old student once at his home in Hanford.

Update: Elisa Kawasaki was sentenced to five years of probation and 180 days in county jail. She will also have to give up her teaching credential, attend counseling and stay away from the 17-year-old boy she molested.

Michelle Kush

Kentucky. A female substitute teacher at Boone County High School is accused of having sex with a teenage student. Michelle Kush, 29, allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old boy several times in the last three months during summer break.

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Debra Lafave

Tampa Bay, FL - A former teacher is to use insanity plea against charges of sex with student. When a young Hillsborough County teacher was accused this summer of having a sexual affair with a 14-year-old student. Debra Lafave's attorney announced that his client would indeed be using an insanity defense. Lafave, 24, is facing charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, stemming from accusations that the former Greco Middle School teacher had sex with the student both at school and in a car driven by the student's cousin in Ocala.

Mary Kay Letourneau

Tacoma, WA - Mary Kay Letourneau, the grade school teacher convicted for having sex with a sixth-grade pupil, Vili Fualaau is the father of two of her children. Letourneau was a 34-year-old elementary school teacher in suburban Seattle and a married mother of four in 1996 when her friendship with the then-12-year-old Fualaau mutated into flirtation and then sex. When Letourneau was arrested in 1997, she was already pregnant with Fualaau's daughter. A judge sentenced her to six months in jail for second-degree child rape, and ordered her to stay away from Fualaau. But the temptation proved too much for her to resist. A month after Letourneau was released, she was caught having sex with Fualaau in her car, a violation of her parole. She was sent to prison for seven and a half years, and gave birth to Fualaau's second daughter behind bars. She is now free and plans to wed Fualaau.

Amy Gail Lilley

A Lecanto, FL. Citrus County high school teacher and former coach has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student, authorities said. Amy Gail Lilley, 36, was released from Citrus County Jail on Wednesday morning after posting $5,000 bail. She is charged with one count of lewd and lascivious battery on a child stemming from her alleged relationship with the girl. Lilley's alleged victim told school officials Monday that she and the teacher were in love and had sex several times since September, a sheriff's office report said.

Julia Ozirski Lund

Chaska, Minnesota - A 28-year-old language teacher at Chaska High School, Julia Ozirski Lund, has been charged for engaging in sex with a 17-year-old male student. Authorities became aware of the relationship when the student spilled the beans.

Lund faces one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct which involves sex with a victim older than 16 but younger than 18 by a person in authority. She was booked and released on bail.

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Kristen Margrif

Mayville, Mi. Meet Kristen Margrif. The Michigan woman, 27, is a high school English teacher. So can you guess why she was arrested? That's right, Margrif has been accused of having sex with a 16-year-old male student (she was arraigned on seven felony charges and one misdemeanor count). According to investigators, Margrif and the teenager trysted eight times in June and July, either in her car or at the store where the boy is working this summer. Margrif, free on $45,000 bond, has been charged under a Michigan law that makes it a crime for a teacher to have sex with a minor student.

Amber Marshall

Chicago, IL - A teacher's aide in Northwest Indiana is in jail after confessing to having sexual contact with several of her teenaged students. According to a story in the Northwest Indiana Times, Amber Marshall, 23, allegedly had sexual contact, including intercourse, with several students. The teenagers were in a special education class at Hebron High School. Marshall faces six felony counts. Police said the abuse had been going on for the last year. Investigators said Marshall turned herself in, telling police that she knew what she did was wrong and against the law, Marshall's bond is set at $75,000.

Amy McElhenney

Dallas, TX - Amy McElhenney, 25, is a former Miss Texas contestant who was teaching at a Carrollton, Texas high school.

McElhenney was arrested May 25 and charged with having an improper relationship with a student. The Spanish teacher and former Miss Texas contestant faces up to 20 years in prison, if convicted.

Donna McKnight

EL PASO, TX. - An El Paso school teacher faces another criminal complaint in New Mexico, which means she's now been charged six times. ABC-7 has learned that Las Cruces Police have again arrested 52-year-old Donna McKnight for alleged sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old boy. Ms. McJnight was previously charged with one count of Criminal Sexual Penetration, one count of Criminal Sexual Contact, and two other related charges in Dona Ana County. She was also charged with one count of Indecency with a Child by exposure in El Paso County. McKnight is on paid leave as a second-grade teacher at Vista Hills Elementary School in El Paso.

 

Marla K. Meek

Deridder, Louisiana - A 34-year-old teacher at South Beauregard Junior High, Marla K. Meeks, was arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student. Meeks turned herself in to the Beauregard Parish Sheriff's office on Monday. Reportedly, Meeks was friends with the boy's parents.

Meeks was booked on charges of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile and computer-aided solicitation for sexual purposes. She was released on $35,000 bond.

Kimberly Merson

Kimberly Merson, 24, pleaded guilty in Carroll County, Md., to felony child abuse for having sex with 4 pupils, then aged 15 and 16, while she was substitute-teaching at Francis Scott Key High. From a police interview of Merson: “I’ll tell you the truth. When I went to [Key] for the job, I told myself, ‘Don’t work at a high school. It will just be too tempting. When I was a teen-ager, I had braces and permed hair. Those kind of boys were not interested in me. Now, I [was] attractive to them.” Merson actually confessed to sex with 9 students, but according to a 1997 state att’y gen’l opinion, teachers can’t be prosecuted for off-campus sex with of-legal-age (16) kids.

Elizabeth Miklosovic

Grand Rapids, MI - A South Haven teacher is going to prison for her 14 year old female student. The former teacher Elizabeth Miklosovic, 36, pleaded no contest. Investigators say the two committed sex acts in a state park, and at Miklosovic's Grand Rapids home. Authorities say she even married the girl in a pagan ritual. Miklosovic could receive between three and a half and nearly six years in prison.

Update: Elizabeth Miklosovic was sentenced to 20 years in prison for two counts of criminal sexual conduct.

Lisa Minchew

Magnolia, Texas - A 28-year-old former art teacher at Magnolia High School, Lisa Minchew, was arrested this morning and charged with sexually assaulting male students ranging in ages 14 through 16. She was booked into the Montgomery County Jail and held on $75,000 bail. Minchew currently faces three counts of sexual assault of a child.

During the summer of 2005, Minchew started working for the Magnolia ISD where her husband also works. In February 2006, Minchew was suspended from her position after allegations surfaced that she went to a student party with alcohol and had sex with a student.

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Tracie Mokry

Carroll County, Minn. Tracie Mokry, 21, a student teacher in the art departmentat Francis Scott Key High School, was charged with bringing seven male students to a weekend party where she drank with them and had sex with a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old. The charges against her were eventually dropped.

Franca and Antonia Munoz-Juvera

Riverside County, California - Twin 26-year-old female teachers at Lakeside High School, Franca and Antonia Munoz-Juvera, were arrested in connection with alleged sex acts with an underage female student.

Detectives arrested Franca for alleged "unlawful contact" with a female student. Antonio was arrested for failing to report the alleged "unlawful contact" as required by California law. A third woman, 18-year-old Eileen Valerio, was also arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The twins were placed on administrative leave by the Lake Elsinore Unified School District which is conducting its own investigation.

The three women were booked into the Southwest Detention Center with bond set at $50,000 each. A court appearance is scheduled for Monday.


Lisa Myhre (aka Lisa Street)

Racine, Wisconsin A 33-year-old special education teacher's aide, Lisa Myhre (aka Lisa Street), was arrested Monday and charged for alleged sexual assault of a boy over a two-year period. The sexual contact began when the student was just 14-years-old and in the eighth grade at McKinley Middle School. The relationship ended on or just before January 2005, according to the complaint. Myhre allegedly performed oral sex on the boy, touched him sexually, and kissed him throughout the course of the relationship. The victim, now 17, told his mother on Oct. 24, 2005 who then informed police on Oct. 25, 2005. Myhre was booked into the Racine County Jail with bond set at $10,000. Click here for a pdf of the criminal complaint

Carrie McCandless

Fort Collins, Colorado - Last month, former teacher and the principal's wife at Brighton Charter High School, Carrie McCandless, was accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student. Ultimately, McCandless was charged with sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

In new developments, McCandless' relationship has led to formal charges being filed against the school board chairman David Mundy Sr. for tampering with at least three witnesses/victims and failing to report child abuse to the authorities. Mundy resigned his position last Friday and is scheduled to be in court today to face the charges. Police didn't learn of the case until contacted by a television reporter.

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Kimberly Michelle Nack

Kimberly Michelle Nack a 28-year-old woman who until recently was a truancy officer for Moorhead schools is charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy she met while working at a youth treatment center.

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Kimberly Padua

Former Chesterfield County teacher Kimberly Padua was sentenced to one month in jail today after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Padua, 39, was charged earlier this year with three counts of taking indecent liberties with a child by someone in a custodial role after she came forward and told police she had been having an intimate relationship with a 17-year-old student at L.C. Bird High School.

Cameo Patch

Tooele, Utah - Last January, 29-year-old Tooele High School substitute teacher Cameo Patch was arrested for illegal sexual activity with a student and, last month, she pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor sexual battery.

UPDATE

The judge suspended a one-year jail term and placed Patch on probation for 36 months. He also ordered her to obtain a psycho-sexual evaluation and fined her $2,000. But the judge said Patch could deduct the cost of the evaluation and her ongoing counseling from the fine.
Judge Kouris then explained.
"If this was a 29-year-old male and a 17-year-old female, I would be inclined to order some incarceration."


Nicole Pomerleau

Charlotte, NC - Nicole Pomerleau, 31, a former high school English teacher has pleaded guilty to taking indecent liberties with a 16-year-old student, but avoided going to prison because she had no previous criminal record. She was placed on probation for two years and ordered her to perform 60 hours of community service and turn in her teaching certificate.Pomerleau had admitted having sexual intercourse with the 16-year-old student on two occasions in January 2004 and February 2004.

Nicola Prentice

Loughton, UK - Nicola Prentice, 25, started a 19-month fling by flirting with a 15 year old student during lessons at his school. Prentice, then aged 22 and in her first teaching job, began taking him to pubs -- often wearing provocative clothing.

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Andrea Jill Rail

(Maury County, Tennessee) Arrested on Tuesday, Santa Fe teacher Andrea Jill Rail, 27, faces charges of solicitation of a male minor. The boy, 14, squealed to his family. Police are investigating computer files.

She resigned, quickly.

[Update 07/31/06]

Another report states that Andrea Jill Rail, aka Andrea Arnold Rail, will face two counts of solicitation of a minor with arraignment scheduled for August 8. Upon conviction, the charges carry punishment of two to 12 years in prison. After her arrest, she was released on $10,000 bond.

Notably, Rail was investigated a year ago for a similar situation with no conclusions.


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LaDonna Rangel

(FREMONT, California) A former teacher accused of having sex with one of her students has pleaded no contest to the crime and will receive five years' probation. LaDonna Rangel, 35, accepted the plea deal Thursday at the Fremont Hall of Justice and will serve no jail time for her one-time affair with a 16-year-old boy, according to court records.

Adrienne Lee Raymond

SHERIDAN, Ore. -- A Sheridan teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her students. Adrienne Lee Raymond was arrested Friday on six counts of third-degree sexual abuse. Police say the relationship between 38-year-old Raymond and the 15-year-old boy began during the summer and carried over into the school year. Raymond has worked for two years at Sheridan High School, teaching art, chemistry and physics. The alleged abuse happened at her home and at the home of one of her friends, but not on school grounds.

Deborah Ann Reeder

Coral Springs, FL - 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. Deborah Ann Reeder faces four counts of unlawful sex with a minor, according to Coral Springs police.

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Rebekah Todd

Rebekah Todd, 25, faces 30 days in home detention and the permanent revocation of her teaching license. A former high school teacher she is charged with having sex with a student and pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted assault.

Pamela Rogers Turner

McMinnville, TN - Pamela Rogers Turner, 27, was named Ms. Monday Nitro during broadcasts by World Championship Wrestling from Spring Break in Florida in 1997. Turner was arrested and charged with 15-counts of sexual battery and 13 counts of statutory rape. She’s accused of having a three month sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy beginning in November.2004.

UPDATE
The teacher, Pamela Rogers, was jailed in 2005 after she admitted to having sex with the student, who was 13 at the time. She was released on probation six months into her eight-year sentence and, despite a judge's order not to contact the boy, used a cell phone to send him sexually explicit photos of herself, authorities said. She received an additional two years for each of the two charges, which will be served at the same time after the conclusion of her first sentence.

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Amira Sa'Di

Math teacher Amira Sa'Di, 30, of College Park was charged with sexual assault in September under a law that seeks to prevent people in authority from taking advantage of those in their custody, Clayton County police say. Sa'Di says she fell in love with a teen and that he at times pursued her. The relationship began after Sa'Di and the 17-year-old student attended a July family reunion during which he spent the night at her house. His brother is related to her by marriage. The two saw each other again and had sex once and oral sex once, a police report says. Sa'Di, who is a private tutor, said she misses the teen, does not regret the affair and has not had relationships with other students

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Maria Saco

Paterson, NJ - A former math teacher at a Passaic middle school has been sentenced to one year in jail for having an intimate relationship with a teenage student.Maria Saco, 28, of Passaic had pleaded guilty in state Superior Court to endangering the welfare of a child. Saco met the boy, then 14, while teaching remedial math to seventh- and eighth-graders at Lincoln Middle School during summer school in 2003.

Update: Maria C. Saco of Passaic pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and was sentenced to one year in the Passaic County Jail.

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Brianna K. Said

(Hummelstown, Pennsylvania) A ninth-grade English and language arts teacher at Milton Hershey School, Brianna K. Said, 30, has been charged with felony interfering with the custody of children and misdemeanor corruption of minors for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student. Said allegedly engaged in the relationship at the school and at Said's home between March and December 2005. Said was fired from her teaching position on January 23.

Judge William Rathfon released Said on $25,000 unsecured bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 19 before Hummelstown District Judge Dominic A. Pelino.

Sarah Salorio

Orange County, CA - A teacher is charged with 20 counts of lewd acts for allegedly having sex with two of her former students. Twenty-eight-year-old Sarah Salorio was charged with molesting the boys between May and December of 2004. The boys were between the ages of 12 and 14 at the time.

Update: Bench-Salorio pleaded guilty to 29 counts of lewd acts with the three boys before Judge Richard Toohey in Orange County Superior Court under an agreement that she be sentenced to three to six years in prison. As an aside, this equates to a range of about one to two months prison for each felony child sex crime. Bench-Salorio, jailed in lieu of $500,000 bond, is scheduled to appear in court for sentencing on November 18, 2005.

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Lynn Samuels

Staten Island, NY - Lynn Samuels, 38, a Catholic school gym teacher was arrested after allegedly kissing and fondling a 12 year old female student while on a "date." Samuels who teaches at St. Paul's School in New Brighton, allegedly grabbed the child's thigh and kissed her with a closed mouth inside a movie theater on Forest Avenue at around 9 a.m. on March 1st. Later, at Samuels' home, she lay atop the child and touched her breast and vaginal area through her clothes, a law enforcement source said. The girl's parents found out about the alleged incident after reading text messages on her phone, the source said.

 

Michelle Dawn Sewell

Fort Worth, Texas - Popular 27-year-old third-grade teacher at Durham Elementary School, Michelle Dawn Sewell, was arrested in March 2005 and charged with repeatedly performing sex acts on a Carroll High School student at her Grapevine apartment. Sewell subsequently resigned her teaching position and was released on $10,000 bail.

Bethany Sherrill

Farmington, MS - Bethany Sherrill, 24, who worked as a teacher's aide in Farmington school district (and who's also the daughter-in-law of the Farmington School Board president) was charged this week with molesting a middle school student who was 14 at the time. According to police, a 15-year-old boy, who claims that in November, when he was 14, Sherrill performed oral sex on him in the basement of a friend's home. The friend told police that he had never engaged in sex acts with Sherrill.

Samantha Solomon

New York, NY - A guidance counselor at a Manhattan high school is in trouble for having an affair with one of her students. Samantha Solomon, 29, was booted from the High School for Health Professions and Human Services after school bosses learned she was having sex with a teenage boy, according to the Education Department. This is the second sex scandal to rock the school this week (Rhianna Ellis listed above).

Angela M. Stellwag

Riverside, NJ - A 24-year-old substitute teacher Angela M. Stellwag, is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy. According to the boy's family, they thought the pair were "just friends" until rumors of a stronger connection started floating around this fall when Stellwag began teaching at Riverside High School, where the boy is now a student. He apparently had been a student of hers at another school. What's more, Angela is the daughter of the mayor of Delran, New Jersey.

Elizabeth Stow

Tulare, CA - A Tulare Western High School English teacher Elizabeth Stow, 26, has been arrested by police on suspicion that she had sex with three 17-year-old boys several months ago It's the second teacher sex scandal at a Tulare high school in the past year.A male teacher was charged last year and is awaiting trial. The district superintendent says the cases don't indicate problems in the district.Stow has resigned from her position as an English teacher.

Lakina Stutts

Milwaukee, WI - A public school bus driver was having sex with a 14-year-old boy, according to police. Police said Lakina Stutts, 24, admitted to them that she had sex with the boy in her home and in a car outside the boy's home a few times. Police said she admitted to them that she had sex with the boy in her home and in a car outside the boy's home a few times. Court records show Stutts also persuaded the boy to smoke marijuana. If convicted, Stutts faces up to 40 years in prison.

Lisa Suitter

(BLACKFOOT, Idaho) Former Idaho Falls teacher Lisa Suitter will spend 90 days in jail for having sex with a teenage boy. Thirty-six-year-old Lisa Anne Suitter earlier pleading guilty to felony sexual battery of a 16-year-old in the year-long relationship with the boy. He was not one of her students. The mother of three was caught last May by Bingham County Sheriff's deputies with the boy in her car. Deputies also found alcohol in the vehicle.

Update: Lisa Suitter will spend 90 days in jail for having sex with a teenage boy.

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Jodi Thorp

Patterson, New Jersey - Here's an enduring case dating back to at least February 2003. It involves a 35-year-old 7th-grade teacher at Paterson Public School No. 24, Jodi Marie Thorp, who was charged with having sex with a male student. It's alleged that Thorp, a married mother of two, had "sex at least 20 times between June 2001 and Oct. 31, 2002, with a teenage boy when he was between the ages of 14 and 15."

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Michelle Leigh Tolar

(Lakewood, Colorado) Michelle Leigh Tolar, a 26-year-old teacher at Jefferson Hills, a troubled youth facility, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 16-year-old student.

From RockyMountainNews.com:
"We have laws in place to protect juveniles for a reason," said Steve Davis, Lakewood police spokesman. "No matter how appropriate the juvenile feels about the relationship, it is illegal for a 26-year-old teacher to have a sexual relationship with a 16- year-old."
Tolar was booked without bail into the Jefferson County Jail. She faces two counts of sexual assault.

Nancy Torres

Frisco police are accusing a teacher's aid at Staley Middle School of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.

Nancy Torres, 29, was arrested Wednesday night and charged with sexual assault of a child and improper relationship between an educator and a student.

Katherine Tew

Greenville, NC - Katherine Tew, 30, an English teacher at South Central High School in North Carolina, faces charges of sex offense with a student and indecent liberties with a student for an affair with a 17-year-old boy.

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Rachelle Vantucci

Warsaw, NY - A 32-year-old former substitute teacher has admitted having sex with a 16-year-old boy, pleading guilty to sexual misconduct, authorities said. Rachelle Vantucci, 32, who taught in the Geneseo Central School District. Under a plea deal, Vantucci agreed to surrender her teaching license, register as a sex offender and pay a $1,000 state surcharge, a prosecutor said. An order of protection will be issued for the teen County investigators arrested Vantucci on charges of third-degree rape and endangering the welfare of a child.  

Jennifer Marie Villacrusis

Williamsport, PA - Jennifer Marie Villacrusis, 35, of 256 Highland Drive Extension, was charged Thursday by state police with two misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors and one felony count of interfering with custody of children.

Police allege that she engaged in consensual sexual relations with a 16-year-old boy on two occasions, once at her school office Nov. 29 and once at her home the next day.

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Jaymee Lane Wallace

Meet Jaymee Lane Wallace. The Florida math teacher is facing charges that she carried on an 18-month affair with a teenage student she coached at a Tampa high school. The alleged victim, now 17, gave investigators a detailed (and graphic) account of her alleged involvement with Wallace, who is 28 and married. Wallace has been charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, a felony that carries a maximum 15-year prison term.

Kathy Denise White

Lumberton, TX - Kathy Denise White, 39, a high school teacher was arrested for allegedly having an ongoing sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy. She was indicted on two counts of an improper relationship between an educator and a student.

Robin Lynn Winkis

(York, Pennsylvania) Last December, Central York High School English teacher Robin Lynn Winkis (pic), now 30, was arraigned on sex and corruption charges resulting from a relationship with a 17-year-old student. She was booked and released on bail. Winkis resigned her position with the school system. Later, charges were filed regarding a second student, 16.

In accordance with the terms of an agreement with the prosecution, Winkis pleaded guilty in April to two counts each of corruption of minors and unlawful contact with minors, and one count of furnishing liquor to a minor.

On Monday (7/19/06), York County Judge Stephen Linebaugh sentenced Winkis to 2 to 23 months in York County Prison and 100 hours of community service. She was also ordered to have no contact with the victims or their families and she must register as a sexual offender under Megan's Law.

Prior to sentencing, Winkis' attorney Terrance McGowan stated he wasn't offering excuses when he said that she was lonely and depressed because her boyfriend beat her and she sought friendship with the male students that escalated to sex. Winkis then apologized to everybody for her poor decisions.

Rebecca Withrow

Smithfield, North Carolina - A 30-year-old former fifth-grade teacher at Polenta Elementary School, Rebecca Withrow, was arrested yesterday for engaging in sex with an 11-year-old boy. The sex allegedly occurred in the classroom between February and June 2003.

Toni Lynn Woods

Braxton County, WV - A sixth grade teacher Toni Lynn Woods, 37, of Strange Creek (seriously that is her picture and she is from that Creek) has confessed to having sexual intercourse with three juveniles a total of four times and oral sex with one of those juveniles and another juvenile a total of four times.

 

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Brandy Yates

(Ferron, Utah) A former teacher at San Rafael Junior High School, Brandy Yates, 26, has been charged with sex abuse of a minor for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old boy.

Being a person in a position of trust, Yates was charged with forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. According to authorities, Yates is cooperating with the investigation.

[Update 04/20/06]

Brandy Yates pleaded no contest to one count of attempted forcible sexual abuse. She is scheduled to be sentenced on July 18 by 7th District Judge Bruce Halliday. Yates faces a possible five years in prison.

[Update 07/20/06]

Yates sentenced to stay home


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