No Contest

No-contest plea in teacher sex case

A former Special School District teacher pleaded no contest this morning to 21 counts of performing oral sex on four of her students at Ferguson Middle School between Oct. 1, 2005 and Jan. 12, 2006.

Cathy Heminghaus, 47, of Ferguson. faces a minimum of probation to a maximum of a life sentence, plus 150 years, when she is sentenced in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Sept. 14.

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Besides the 21 counts of statutory sodomy, Heminghaus also pleaded no contest to two counts of a teacher having sex with a student and two counts of plying minors with alcohol. Quarenghi said the victims told police that some of oral sex acts took place in a classroom at the middle school while one boy would serve as lookout for another.

17 students

Teacher Charged with Sexually Abusing 17 Students

An elementary school music teacher at the Onondaga Nation School was charged Wednesday with sexually abusing as many as 17 young students between ages seven and 14.

Authorities in central New York say Albert Scerbo was originally arrested in December for having sexual contact with two young girls, ages 7 and 8. Investigators say the incidents occurred between September 2002 and December 2006.

But Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick says the list of victims grew as deputies investigated the 44-year-old town of Clay.

The indictment returned Wednesday charged Scerbo with 17 counts of endangering the welfare of a child, 11 counts of second-degree course of sexual conduct against a child, four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, and three counts of second-degree sexual abuse.

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.

Trash Can + feces

Ex-teacher faces charges in special ed pupil’s abuse

A former special education teacher at Norfork Elementary School faces a misdemeanor charge of child endangerment after being accused of abusing a pupil.

Loretta Dianne Cruse, 59, surrendered at the Baxter County sheriff’s office Friday after authorities had issued a warrant for her arrest. The charge, endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree, is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $ 1, 000 fine.

An affidavit in support of her arrest said Cruse punished an 8-year-old, non-verbal pupil with severe learning disabilities Jan. 10 by putting a dirty trash can over his head and striking the trash can several times. Two teacher’s aides told authorities the trash can may have contained the boy’s feces, which they said they had cleaned up after he had a bowel movement two hours earlier.

Not a Nice Lady

Seminole County Teacher Faces Sentencing

A Seminole County teacher who was convicted of abusing a special-needs student will learn her fate on Tuesday.


Kathleen Garrett will return to the courtroom on Tuesday morning, WESH 2 News reported.

Garrett was convicted of abusing an autistic student. She faced several charges but was convicted on one incident.

The jury said they believed Garrett leaned on a child who was acting up until he nearly turned blue because his neck was against the edge of his desk.

Aide

Former Teacher's Aide Charged With Sex Crime

A 44-year-old former teacher's aide was charged with aggravated sexual assault early Tuesday.

Enrique Gil Martinez was being held in the Bexar County Jail in lieu of $30,000 bond.

According to a police affidavit, a 19-year-old man went to police March 7 to report a sexual relationship he had with Martinez when the suspect worked at Nimitz Middle School.

The man told police that Martinez molested him more than 100 times over a period of five years, beginning when he was 13, the affidavit stated.

Bus Driver Behaving Badly

Ex-bus driver faces sex charges

A former school bus driver faces federal charges of sexually exploiting a child.

Andrew Grabow, 40, of Florence is charged in U.S. District Court in Covington with four counts of making or trading images of child porn over the Internet. If convicted of all the charges, he could be sentenced up to 50 years in prison.

He is already indicted in Boone and Kenton counties on child sexual exploitation charges. Investigators say he exploited two children - a 16-year-old student who rode his Boone County Schools bus and a pre-teen. The abuse dates back to June 2004.

He looks creepy enough...

Riverton teacher is charged with 11 new sex-abuse counts

Eleven additional charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child were filed Friday against an award-winning teacher at Rosamond Elementary School.

Frank Laine Hall, 36, now faces a total of 14 counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, all first-degree felonies. The new charges represent six additional victims, bringing the total to nine.

Originally, Hall was accused of putting his hand down the pants of three female students in his first-grade classroom, 12195 S. 1975 West, in Riverton. All of the approximately 20 students in his class are 6 or 7 years old.

The amended charges do not give details about the six additional victims, including whether they were his students or if the abuse occurred in his classroom.

However, 10 of the additional charges reflect allegations between July 1, 2006, and March 9, 2007, the day Hall was removed from the classroom, according to court documents.

Perv in 'A Minor'

Ok so I should probably go to hell for that title. Oh well...

Piano Teacher Accused of Sex Abuse Again

For the second time this year, a Port Jefferson piano teacher has been arrested on charges that he sexually abused a young student.

Suffolk cops say 74-year-old Nicholas Panos, a piano teacher at the Three Village Music Shop in East Setauket, touched the private area of an 8-year-old female student last month. The victim told police that she had been abused by Panos numerous times within the past year.