Dead Kids

Teacher avoids prison for Internet crimes

A fired Tokyo elementary school teacher was given a suspended 2 1/2-year prison term and ordered placed under supervision Thursday for the unauthorized posting of photos of five children who died in traffic accidents on his Web site and e-mailing child pornographic materials.

Although Toshio Watanabe, 34, was only charged with copyright violations and with circulating child-pornography materials, the case has caught public attention because it cast light on growing public misgivings over elementary school education, centering on whether such a person should ever be allowed to teach.

Watanabe was fired in March from Shorin Elementary School in a western Tokyo suburb after posting the photos on his Web site Club Kids.

'Swearing Girl' Vindicated

Teacher reprimanded for swearing, yelling

Savannah Larson isn't talking, but if she was, she would probably be saying, "I told you so."

A music teacher - accused by Larson of using foul language in a highly unconventional 'tribute' - has been sent a letter of reprimand.

The bad language came to light during a school concert when the then eighth grader stunned an audience by swearing a blue streak on stage following a musical number.

Savannah Larson told KATU News she wanted to make a point.

She said was imitating her teacher by using the same expletives she had heard in class.

Some Of That

Gary Gym Teacher Accused Of Molesting Student

A Tolleston Middle School physical education teacher accused of fondling a seventh-grade special education student was hiding in his basement Wednesday when police arrived to arrest him, Detective Cpl. Nelson Otano said.

John J. Wachel, 48, of Hammond was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor based on the girl's account, which was supported by a witness. Otano said the witness saw the coach grab the girl's buttocks while he looked at her chest and said, "I want some of that."

1st Grade Teacher Watches Porn During Class

Teacher Accused Of Viewing Porn In Class

The Edgewood school district in Ohio is sending letters home to every parent who had a child in Chris Beiser's classroom after the teacher abruptly resigned.

Beiser taught first grade at Bloomfield Elementary School up until late last week.

District officials said that they had reason to believe that Beiser was viewing porn on his school-issued laptop during class time. They said he resigned after refusing to answer questions.

In a written statement, the district said, "While assisting a class at Bloomfield Elementary, it was discovered that inappropriate images were being viewed from Mr. Chris Beiser's computer. On the morning of Tuesday, May 29th using the Remote Desktop software, the technology department observed Mr. Chris Beiser, a first grade teacher at Bloomfield Elementary, viewing pornographic images on his computer in his classroom during class time."

Just Do It

Teacher Says 'Just Do it', Student is Beaten

The severe beating of a student at L'Anse Creuse Middle School East has the boy's parents demanding punishment for a teacher they say encouraged the attack.

Six students have been punished for the beating, which left the boy with contusions and a concussion. But his parents want a teacher to answer for these words they say she uttered in a classroom full of students:

"If you're going to fight, just do it right now and I'll walk away and come back when it's done. ... Just knock his teeth out and be done with it."

A spokeswoman for the L'Anse Creuse schools tells Action News the teacher admits to saying, "If you're going to fight just do it right now." But the spokeswoman says the statement was made in "frustration" and was "not made to encourage any fighting."

Exposure

Teacher Charged After Alleged Indecent Exposure

A popular Montgomery County middle school teacher is under arrest Thursday for allegedly exposing himself to students.

Montgomery County Police say 43-year-old Charles Bouma, an eighth grade math teacher at Argyle Middle School in Silver Spring, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and disturbing a school operation.

Bouma allegedly exposed himself and engaged in sexual activity while driving in a convertible beside a school bus carrying students from the Academy of the Holy Cross on Monday around 3:15 p.m. near Rockville Pike and Tuckerman Lane, police say.

After the incident, Bouma followed the bus and drove around each side, causing "considerable commotion" on the bus, police say.

The students on the bus were members of the Holy Cross crew team and on their way to practice. The crew team coach wrote down Bouma's license plate and called police to report the incident.

Bouma has been placed on administrative leave, Montgomery County Public School spokesman Brian Edwards says.

"Naturally, this is a very disturbing situation for us," Edwards says. "We will be informing parents of the information we have. If they have any questions, they can speak with the principal about the incident.

Internet Boundaries

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Web sites cross teacher-student lines

A handful of teens posted messages about grades, extracurricular activities and substitute teachers on an embattled Jackson Middle School teacher's personal Web site in the months before she was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student.

The teens, who identified themselves from Titusville or anonymous Florida locations like "SomeWhere," freely commented on Janet Lea Hughes' MySpace.com page. Several more were listed as "friends" on the page.

Internet experts say social networking sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com ease conversations between students and teachers. But the technology usually does not push adults over the student-teacher line.

"A professional educator does not cross those boundaries in physical space and they do not cross them in virtual space," said Dianne Lynch, dean of Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. "When you are a professional, you are a professional. Sometimes we overestimate the power of technology."

Lewd IM's

Teacher arrested for allegedly inappropriate Internet contact with student

An eighth-grade teacher at a Livermore private school has been arrested after allegedly having inappropriate Internet conversations with one of her male students.

Our Savior Lutheran School teacher Rebecca Rogers, 24, of San Ramon, was arrested April 17 at the Livermore police department on suspicion of contacting or communicating with a minor for purpose of engaging in certain lewd and lascivious behavior, according to police. She was booked at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and has been since released on bail.

The Alameda County District Attorney's Office has not yet filed charges, but Rogers has a tentative court date Monday in Alameda County Superior Court in Pleasanton.

Livermore police have been going through Rogers' computer and trying to figure out the extent of the communications, said Lt. Scott Trudeau.

"It's hard to tell," Trudeau said. "We're going through all of the computer evidence (to find out) when it started and how it started and who might have been the one who initiated it."

Trudeau said he did not want to comment on whether there was physical relationship.

The school's staff called police April 17 after the parents of a student found instant messages of a sexual nature, according to police.

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At this point we're not going to comment on that," Trudeau said. "We're encouraging people to review what they're kids have been doing" on the Internet.

Text Messages

Teacher jailed

A MUSIC teacher who sent text messages to a teenage pupil saying he wanted to grope her breasts has been jailed for 12 months.

David Howell, 34, told the girl: "For some reason you make me feel v horny" and "You really turned me on yesterday."

He had previously spent two years working at Warren School, in Whalebone Lane North, Chadwell Heath.

Howell said he innocently texted her about work and someone else must have used his phone to send the messages.

But he was convicted by the jury of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

The teacher mouthed 'I love you' to his wife Claire as he was led away.

Howell started the inappropriate relationship in May 2005.

He sent emails about schoolwork but Howell gave the girl his mobile number.

She texted him and he sent the inappropriate messages back.

Most ended with an 'x' for a kiss.

Corruption of a Minor

N.D. Teacher Pleads Guilty To Corruption Of Minor

A former math teacher from Finley-Sharon High School in North Dakota pleaded guilty to a charge of corruption of a minor.

Jonathan Champagne was accused of having sexual contact with a 17-year-old female student. As part of a plea agreement, he was sentenced to five years in prison, with all but 60 days suspended.

Prosecutors dropped two other counts of corruption of a minor and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Champagne was hired by the Crookston School District in Minnesota last summer, but was fired after charges were filed in the Finley case

4 YEAR OLD

Teacher on leave after complaint

A Wright Elementary School teacher was under investigation Monday after the mother of a 4-year-old girl alleged he improperly touched the child, Harlandale Independent School District spokesman Pete Barcenez said Monday.

The pre-kindergarten teacher, who was out sick Monday, will be placed on paid administrative leave today while the district's police department and the San Antonio Police Department investigate, Barcenez said.

Assisted to Jail

Teacher's assistant accused of sex with student

At Jefferson Davis High School -- a school of a few thousand teens -- some knew Jose Guadalupe Mondragon as a charmer.

Jose Guadalupe Mondragon is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
“A lot of girls wanted to go (out) with him,” one student said.

Now the 26-year-old teacher’s assistant is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student. The Houston school district said detectives pulled him from class and arrested him. The school district said it learned of the incident after one of the girl’s friends told a teacher that it happened at her home.

P-A-R-T-Why?

Teacher Resigns After Student's Party

A Lincoln County High School teacher has resigned after school authorities say she attended a party at a student's home that involved "inappropriate behavior."

The teacher, who had been at the school for three years, resigned when Lincoln County School Superintendent Teresa Wallace questioned her about the incident, which allegedly involved several students. According to Wallace, the teacher declined to answer any questions about the party and instead offered her resignation