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.

James Darden

Charges filed against Teaneck teacher

A grand jury handed up a 20-count indictment today against an award-winning Teaneck middle school teacher accused of having sex with one of his students.

James Darden, a popular teacher at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, was also indicted on charges of kissing an eighth-grade student in his classroom.

Darden was arrested June 1 and charged with having a sexual relationship with an eighth-grader while she was between 13 and 15. The accuser, who is now 21, told authorities that Darden had sex with her in his classroom, in the men's faculty bathroom, in the dean's office, in his car and at his former home in Plainfield

Karen Patton

Former Wythe County teacher sent to prison for molesting two students

A former teacher will serve nearly four years in prison for molesting two of her students.

Karen Susan Patton was sentenced today in Wythe County court.

After she serves three years and eleven months of prison time, Patton will be on probation for five more years.

In March, she plead no contest to charges stemming from sexual relationships with two former students at Scott Memorial Middle School.

Teachers Aide Pleads Guilty

Teacher's aide fired after accused of sexual contact

A Sierra Vista teacher's aide has been fired following his arrest for alleged sexual contact with two female students.

The Sierra Vista public schools governing board made the decision to fire Kenneth Boughton, 25, without discussion or ceremony Tuesday night, the day after he pleaded not guilty to 11 felony charges, including sexual contact with a minor, sexual abuse and child molestation.

Police say they believe that Boughton was sexually involved with the two female students for "an extended period of time," at Apache Middle School.

Internet Boundaries

This is a good article, check out the whole thing:

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."

A Dozen Charges

Piedmont Teacher Indicted On Sex Offense Charges

A Triad middle school teacher was indicted Monday by a grand jury on more than a dozen charges.

Robert Watson faces six counts of statutory sex offense, three counts of indecent liberties by a teacher with a minor and nine counts of indecent liberties.

37 y.o woman + 11 y.o boy and more

Teacher-Sex Scandal Spurs Cries Of Racism

The arrest of two women teachers on charges of having sex with their male students has brought cries of lingering racism in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties and evoked some of the South's oldest and deepest-seated racial taboos.

Both women are white. The boys — six in all — are black.

Some of the blacks who make up more than a quarter of Laurens County's 70,000 residents are upset over the handling of the two cases, particularly the release of the teachers on bail.

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Wendie Schweikert, a 37-year-old married woman who had been teaching elementary school in Laurens for more than a decade, was arrested last year after the mother of an 11-year-old boy accused her of having sex with the boy at school at least twice. Authorities said they found evidence bearing his DNA in her classroom. She is also accused of having sex with him in her car near a miniature golf course and arcade in Greenville, about 40 miles away.

Allenna Ward, a 24-year-old minister's daughter in her second year of teaching, was fired Feb. 28 after she was charged with having sex with at least five boys. Some of the alleged victims, 14 and 15 years old, were students at the middle school in Clinton where Ward taught. Police say Ward, who is married, had sex with the boys at the school, at a motel, in a park and behind a restaurant.

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.

From Townhall...

Facilitating Student-Teacher Affairs

Maybe the death of an 18-year-old at the hand of a jealous husband will put an end to the rib-poking and television footage of bikini-clad teachers straddling motorcycles or gyrating in garter belts.

Maybe now that 18-year-old Sean Powell is dead, it won’t seem so cool to have had an affair with the hotty high school teacher.

Maybe now that we see the consequences of having the teacher transformed from an authority figure to a cool friend we may question current pedagogical methods.

But probably not, considering who runs our schools. As study after study has indicated, most educators do not emerge from the top tier of college graduates.

These administrators, curriculum devisers, and teacher trainers will continue in their schizophrenic way: by divesting teachers of the authority traditionally endowed to adults—especially those in the classroom—and at the same time being puzzled by student-teacher affairs.

Time was when the teacher was an authority figure, someone to be feared, not a pal, not anyone a teenager would choose to spend time with.

That was a time when parents were held in the same regard

East Lincoln High

Authorities arrest E. Lincoln teacher

An East Lincoln High School science teacher has been charged with taking indecent liberties with a 15-year-old female student.

The sheriff's office said Jeremiah Howard Wood, 28, of Cameron is suspected of having inappropriate contact with the student on school grounds.

Wood turned himself in to the sheriff's office Thursday and was released on a $9,500 secured bond.

Teacher accused of child rape

A Blackstone teacher has been indicted on charges she raped one of her students.

Donna Giguere, 38, of Susan Drive, Blackstone, was indicted by a grand jury in Worcester last week on two counts of rape of a child under age 16; two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14; and two counts of unnatural rape of a child under 16, according to Timothy J. Connolly, a spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.

Ms. Giguere, an eighth-grade teacher at Frederick Hartnett Middle School in Blackstone, is scheduled to be arraigned April 20 in Worcester Superior Court, according to court records. The indictment was handed up Thursday, Mr. Connolly said.

Mr. Connolly did not comment further on the charges.

Blackstone police yesterday said Ms. Giguere was arrested Jan. 16 on charges that she befriended the boy when he was a student and sexually assaulted him. Blackstone Police Detective Wayne Mowry said the boy is now 17.

Solicitation

Teacher in solicitation case may lose career

A Rutherford County teacher who entered a no-contest plea on charges of soliciting a 15-year-old student for sex will probably have to find another profession.

"Pretty much, his teaching career is over," said Rich Haglund, General Counsel for the State Board of Education.

On Tuesday, former Siegel High School teacher Nalin White entered a no-contest plea to three counts of soliciting a minor.

The 29-year-old geography teacher had been suspended without pay since the incident was reported last May.

Update

Teacher in teen sex case tried suicide

A teacher accused of having sex with a former student who was shot to death outside her home tried to commit suicide five days later with a drug overdose, Nashville police said.

Nashville's 911 call center was contacted on March 15 by a Knoxville police officer, who said Erin McLean's family there believed she had taken an overdose.

Update

Miramar Coach Re-Arrested On Sex Charges

More charges have been filed against a Miramar high school wrestling coach accused of sexually assaulting students.

In the last week, two more girls have come forward to Miramar Police and said they were sexually molested by 28-year old Alain Cupas while he was working at Everglades High School.

The first girl, a 14-year old, said she and Cupas had unprotected consensual sex between 10 and 20 times in either his office or the school’s gym.

A second teen to come forward, a 17-year old girl, said when she was 15-years old and on the wrestling team, Cupas would touch her on her breasts and buttocks, look down her shirt, and even tried to kiss her after wrestling practices and tournaments.

Earlier this month, Cupas was arrested for allegedly molesting a teenage student on March 2nd.

It never stops...

Deputies say Bellaire teacher found with half-naked teen

A teacher at Bellaire High School is under investigation for possible sex crimes involving a former student, 16, for whom she also serves as legal guardian, according to Precinct 5 Constable's Capt. Michael Coleman.

Residents in the 4900 block of Valkeith in Meyerland spotted a van Sunday parked in the driveway of a vacant house and called Precinct 5 constable's deputies to investigate.

Deputies found the male teen naked from the waist down in a van with blacked-out windows. Tamara Ryman, 37, a Bellaire algebra teacher, was with the teen in the van, Coleman said.

Allegations...

Salpointe teacher quits after sex allegations

A female teacher at Salpointe Catholic High School resigned Friday after being questioned about allegations of a sexual relationship with an underage male student, a police report says.

Salpointe administrators first received reports of sexual misconduct by the teacher with the student on Thursday, but they didn't notify police until Friday, a Tucson Police Department report said.

Prom Bride

An interesting read:

Teacher, 47, brings bride, 16, to prom

It wasn't until Averill married the girl in 2000 -- then brought her to the Dixie High School prom -- that Lord realized her mistake.

The girl was 16. Averill was 47.

Another Pretty One

Teacher, 21, accused of sex with student, 14

A 21-year-old substitute teacher from the Dunklin School District was charged Friday with having sex with a 14-year-old male student, whom she knew for years as a friend of her brother.

The Jefferson County prosecuting attorney charged Teresa Engelbach of Pevely with three counts of statutory rape and one count of statutory sodomy following an investigation by the Jefferson County sheriff's office.

As a bonus treat heres her MYSPACE.

The Best In Utah

Utah teacher accused of abuse in class

A first-grade teacher honored last year as among the best in Utah was charged with sexually abusing three students in his suburban classroom, authorities said Friday.

10 years

De. Teacher sentenced for student sex

A sixth-grade science teacher who was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Rachel L. Holt, 35, had pleaded guilty to second-degree rape. She sobbed in court Friday as Superior Court Judge Calvin L. Scott gave her the mandatory minimum sentence.

Prosecutors had wanted Scott to sentence Holt to the maximum of 25 years.

Holt was initially charged with 28 counts of first-degree rape.