Stephen L. Pebley

62-year-old Stephen L. Pebley, a former Campbell County, TN teacher for more than 30 years, was caught shooting up Roxy in a middle school parking lot earlier this week and arrested.

Pebley is currently facing charges of possession, possession of paraphernalia and violation of a drug-free school zone.

The Jacksboro Middle School resource officer walked up to Pebley’s car around 2:30pm Monday afternoon after he noticed the Buick Regal parked next to the football field. Pebley was in the driver’s seat with a tourniquet around his left arm while his buddy, 34-year-old Cory Clay Overton, was in the middle of shooting up.

Corey C. Overton

Both men admitted to pulling in to the parking lot so they could cook up some Roxy.

Pebley was originally arrested in Claiborne County in 2007 when deputies raided a meth lab. Pebley pleaded guilty at that time to conspiracy to make meth and he just finished his three-year probation sentence earlier this month.

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39-year-old Kristen Hammonds, an administrative assistant at Villa Rica High School in Villa Rica, Georgia,  has been accused of having sex with at least three male students. Detectives from the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office stated that the kids were coming over to her house under the guise of having them meet her children. The alleged sexual assault was reported to the county office, who in turn informed the Villa Rica PD, who then turned it over to the county sheriff.

According to police the sex was consensual and the kids were all over the age of 17 (one of the students was 19) which would have made it legal except for her position of authority over them which under state law makes it sexual assault.

Kristie Hammonds was denied bond earlier today after police told the court that she had made contact with one of the alleged victims Monday night and Tuesday morning.

Hammonds’ lawyer, Mac Pilgrim, told reporters that her husband kicked her out after the allegations surfaced. He also stated that she had been improperly charged. “Mrs. Hammons was a secretary. She never had a position of authority. She was not in a position to do any sort of disciplinary action. Her job description for the school has no disciplinary or authoritative responsibility.” Legal mumbo-jumbo as far as I am concerned but he does have a valid point. Regardless of the fact that she meted out discipline even though her official job description doesn’t call for it, Kristie Hammonds was also a cheerleading coach. COACH, which means that she was in charge of at least a segment of the student population. Hell, sleeping with your students is just poor fucking decision making anyway, regardless their ages.

Newstalk 1160 reports that she admitted to having had sex with at least one of the students to the county office. Hammonds has resigned from the county.

Hammonds Facebook account has been deleted and her MySpace set to private.

Updated 4/25/11 – According to WSB one of the teens has possibly recanted his story. Not much more information than that right now.

39-year-old Kristina Rhoden Hartless, a fifth grade teacher in Duval County, Florida, has been arrested after being accused of having sex with a child she had been tutoring as well as counseling in church.

Hartless has been charged with Sexual Battery

The child’s mother went to police, concerned that her teenager had been having an inappropriate relationship with Hartless. When she was questioned by police Hartless admitted to a sexual relationship with the boy and he allegedly admitted to it as well, saying it had gone on for months.

Hartless has been suspended from school pending the outcome of the case.

This creepiness hits me hard considering that both of my children, and my son before them, attend schools in Carroll County, Georgia.

Richard Lee DeLong, an instructor in the online learning lab at Crossroads Academy, an alternative school, was arrested last week by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department after he allegedly sent nude photos of men to another student he had allegedly been grooming in order to potentially molest.

The student had performed yard work for DeLong, after which the man started texting the boy and calling him. When it started turning sexual the boy went to his mother who reported it to police and turned the boy’s cell phone over to them. Police continued to receive texts from DeLong and eventually received nude photos of men (not of himself though). He then arranged to meet the “boy” at night. Once he had made those arrangements police were able to obtain an arrest warrant for DeLong and get a search warrant for his home.

DeLong has been teaching for Carroll County and is still listed on the web site linked above as one of the faculty. According to the Times-Georgian DeLong is also a “major figure” in Sacred Harp (Delong quotes at the link) singing. He performed at the Academy Awards and was part of the taping sessions for the movie “Cold Mountain”.

I do have to say one thing at this point. While we post quite a few stories about teachers and other figures in the public who are scumbags, the majority of teachers despise people such as DeLong and just want to help kids. Unfortunately sexual predators often find ways to be close to children and teaching is obviously one of those professions.

50-year-old Charles Daniel Nelson used to be the choral director of Woodland High School in Bartow County, Georgia. Back in January he resigned his position after allegations surfaced that he had been skimming money from the chorus raised through fundraisers.

After a lengthy GBI investigation Nelson has now been charged with 11 counts of felony Theft By Conversion and he is accused of having stolen $11,000.

Nelson is currently lodged in the Bartow County Jail pending a bond hearing.

30-year-old Justin Wallin, a band teacher at Chino Hills High School in Chino Hills, California has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old female student.

The victim reported to police that she was sexually involved with the man while he was her band teacher after her parents discovered sexually explicit text messages from Wallin on her phone.

After reviewing their phone bill police discovered over 8,000 text messages from Wallin to the victim. During the investigation police obtained unspecified evidence of the crime. He was arrested last Thursday at the High School.

Wallin was lodged in the West Valley Detention Center on charges of Unlawful Sexual Intercourse, Oral Copulation and Sexual Penetration With a Foreign Object. He is currently out on $100,000 bond.

33-year-old former English teacher Marcie L. Rousseau of  Thomas Township, Michigan has been arrested and was formally arraigned yesterday in Saginaw County on 21 counts of third and fourth degree Sexual Conduct stemming from a relationship she had with a student from May of 2009 until this past February.

Rousseau has also been charged with eight more counts of sexual conduct in Midland County because she allegedly had sex with the kid there as well.

Rousseau was placed on leave back in February when the investigation into her activities began and she resigned back on June 16th. Rousseau taught for nine years at Freeland High School.

What I find interesting is that CNN and a boatload of other news sites have picked up on the story and are airing it as if this should come as some kind of surprise. Each of the stories, including CNN’s mention a couple of other cases and a quote from Robin Sax (author of Predators and Molesters), “We’re finally realizing not only that sexual assault exists and how prevalent it is, but there is such a thing as a female perpetrator” that has been taken out of context.

They are wrong.

I agree with Sax about a lot of stuff, particularly how prevalent female predators are. I just don’t think that the country as a whole, or the main-stream-media in particular, get it. Most of the general population thinks that a female teacher having sex with a student is an entirely different thing than a male teacher having sex with a student. This is just another damned news cycle for the media and the story that’s being presented as if we should be so surprised will be something else next week and the handful of crime sites that actually cover this stuff on a regular basis will go back to being the only ones who really do.

Rousseau is out on $255,000 bond.

66-year-old Carl Peak of Tucson, a substitute teacher at Rivera Elementary School, has been accused of inappropriately touching several female students and has been arrested.

Officers in Pima County interviewed six different students in Peak’s class and each of them stated that Peak touched them on the buttocks at least once.

Peak was interviewed at the Tucson PD office and afterward was arrested and charged with six misdemeanors. He was lodged in the Pima County Jail. I don’t currently know the status of bond.

Back in March administrators at Western Middle School in Burlington, North Carolina reported to police allegations that a teacher’s assistant had touched students inappropriately.

After a two month investigation a warrant was issued for the arrest of 41-year-old Russell Witcher of Burlington. He has been lodged in the Alamance County Jail on $75,000 bond and his first court appearance is tomorrow.

What the fuck is it with World of Warcraft? Do people who may not have a complete grip on reality just lose their shit while playing the game and think they can get away with anything they might do? Thanks to Me ToSee for sending this story my way.

30-year-old Lauren Tilo, an assistant principal at Middleton High School in Hillsborough County, Florida, has been arrested after she allegedly sent a sexually provocative photo to a 14-year-old boy.

The two met online in World of Warcraft and it seemed innocent enough at first, just being friends. After a while they started texting each other. On May 7th Tilo took a photo of herself with her breast exposed and sent it to the young teen, who told his guidance counselor at school. We all know what came next.

23-year-old Abby Campbell Kramer, a former dance instructor at Fort Scott High School in Fort Scott, Kansas, has been arrested after she allegedly had sex with a student at the high school.

Police were called last Wednesday to investigate allegations that Kramer had engaged in sexual contact with one of the students there. She has been charged Sexual Exploitation of a Child and Unlawful Sexual Relations and lodged in the Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center with no bond.

According to the school superintendent Kramer was not a teacher at the school but was contracted through Neosho County Community College as a dance instructor.

Judging from the photo in the article that ran in the Fort Scott Tribune last August announcing Kramer’s wedding she’s fairly hot. Hell, she should have just called me up if she wanted a little help with the old in/out…

32-year-old Green Bay, Wisconsin resident and former teacher at Kiel High School Ryan Zellner was arrested back at the beginning of April, charged with Sexual Assault of a Child, Child Enticement, Use of a Computer to Facilitate a Child Sex Crime and Sexual Assault of a Child By School Staff Person.

The charges stemmed from text messages which happened over a period of time beginning in 2007 and involving several victims. Shortly after his arrest bond was set at $100,000 and he was lodged in the Manitowoc County Jail. He has also been charged in Calumet County with asking a 15-year-old girl for naked photos, grabbing her breast and sexting. The official charges are Exposing a Child to Harmful Materials. Zellner was investigated on the same type of charges back in 2006 when he was teaching at Southwest High but the case couldn’t be substantiated and went nowhere.

According to investigators Zellner intimidated and manipulated girls younger than 16 in more than one school district.

While Zellner got a great reference from his old school before being hired at Kiel according to the prosecution he left his two prior teaching positions under suspicion of inappropriate contact with students and that several students have called the police to report Zellner since his arrest.

A couple of weeks ago the police subpoenaed Zellner’s phone records and are saying that he exchanged more than 10,000 texts, phone calls or photos on his cell phone over a four month period with just one girl.

Ryan Zellner has pleaded Not Guilty By Reason of Mental Disease or Defect. What a load of crap. Of course he has a fucking mental defect but that doesn’t preclude him from being able to judge whether or not it’s appropriate to molest high school girls.

The Marion County, Florida Sheriff’s Office arrested 49-year-old Steven T. Simmons this afternoon around 4 p.m. Simmons is a teacher at North Marion High School.

Over the past few years students have made reports of thefts from the lockers. Thus far police and the administration have not been able to figure it out so an enterprising student decided to catch it on video today. He managed to use his cell phone to catch Coach Simmons going through the lockers.

After questioning by the school resource officer (and confronted with the video) Simmons admitted to stealing money from the lockers for a couple of years. He admitted to having taken more than $400 just this school year alone.

Simmons has been charged with Grand Theft and was lodged in the Marion County Jail on $2,000 bond. He posted bond shortly before 8 p.m. this evening.

According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office the video isn’t available at this time but hopefully they will have it online soon, at which point I’ll post it here as well.

35-year-old Matthew Boyer from Neosho, Missouri, a (now) former school board member, has been arrested and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl and of possessing nude images of another minor on his computer at home.

The alleged victim of Boyer told detectives with the Newton County Sheriff’s Office that she had sexual intercourse with Boyer twice in September of 2009 at his house while she was still 16. During the course of the investigation police also found images of a 17-year-old local girl as well.

Boyer was a member of the Westview School Board at the time but has resigned since he was arrested. He was lodged in the Newton County Jail charged with Statutory Rape and Possession of Child Pornography. Bail was set at $125,000.

In 2007 Boyer (MySpace) was charged and convicted of Child Endangerment for lifting a six-year-old girl by the arm and dropping her to the ground in June of that year. He received a 60-day suspended jail sentence and two years of unsupervised probation. He also pleaded guilty to Nonsupport in 2006 and received probation for that as well. Just who I would want on my school board, someone who can’t even take care of his own children and sleeps with the students. NOT!

43-year-old Terry Kristin Rauh, a teacher at Jesse Hall Elementary School in Spanish Springs, Nevada, has been arrested and charged with 67 counts of Taking an Image of Private Parts, which is a misdemeanor.

Rauh, who has been teaching for 20 years in the Washoe County School District, is accused of planting a video camera in the unisex staff bathroom in the teacher’s lounge. Another teacher found the camera Wednesday and reported it to the principal who called the police after photos were found.

After an investigation into who planted the camera by reviewing the footage police arrested Rauh on Thursday afternoon. He has been suspended from his position pending the outcome of the investigation and has been lodged in the Washoe County Jail.

29-year-old Brandy L. Mullikin, a teacher from Star City, Arkansas, was arrested and charged with Sexual Assault after admitting to having sex with a minor on several occasions.

Mullikin allegedly admitted to the relationship after the student turned 18. She admitted that he stayed overnight at her house on several occasions and also said that the teen’s mother knew of the affair. Initially she said that the affair began outside of school and didn’t happen until after the boy turned 18 but she has now admitted that it started when he was 17 and she knew his age.

Mullikin has been terminated from teaching at Star City High School after initially being suspended.

If Mullikin is convicted she faces 5 to 20 years in prison.

Police in Bremen, GA 29-year-old Valerie Elizabeth “Liz” Parrish, a social studies teacher at Bremen High School, this week along with six other people in her home. Sorry about the crappy mug shot by the way, working on that. You can see the rest of the mug shots at this video from 11Alive.

According to the reports over at FOX News police had gone to the home to serve a warrant on Michael Bott who they thought would be at the home and when they arrived they smelled the familiar chemical odor that comes from cooking meth. It’s not the first time they had heard Parrish’s name and meth together though because they apparently knew she was dealing the drug and had made some undercover buys from her recently as well. All seven have been charged with violating Georgia’s controlled substance act and Criminal Attempt to Manufacture Methamphetamine. Bott was also a fugitive for violation of probation at the time of his arrest.

It’s rumored that this is the third time a search warrant has been executed at the home, although I can’t get that corroborated yet.

A three-year-old child was also inside the home at the time of the arrests. Police have notified DFACS and there may be child endangerment charges pending as well. I don’t currently know whose child it was.

The seven people arrested include Parrish, 22-year-old Jake Ryan Lee, Liz’s boyfriend 22-year-old Blake Bryan Lee, 23-year-old Michael Lee Bott, 25-year-old Andrew Denton Grimes, 23-year-old Amanda Therese Crabb and 25-year-old Victoria Ann Deaton. All but Grimes and Deaton reportedly live in the home with Parrish, whose parents are also an Administrator and board member of Bremen City Schools.

According to her website at Bremen High School Parrish teaches World History.

All seven were lodged in the Haralson County Jail.

Updated 4/1/10 – Parrish and Deaton are both out on $15,000 bond. The rest of them are still sitting in the Haralson County Jail. A Grand Jury will be meeting and most likely there will be additional charges added on to the existing ones.

Updated 4/6/10 – I have heard from several unconfirmed sources that Parrish has resigned. Bear in mind that it’s folks who live in the area but even though people like to gossip there is usually a grain of truth in the middle somewhere. I know a couple of the teachers and will try and confirm it that way when I return to the area next week.

Updated 4/10/10 – The rumor I heard last week is true. Parrish officially resigned on April 2nd. The letter of resignation was read at a school board meeting last week and read,

Thank you for letting me teach here for six years. Please accept my apology for the negative perception caused due to my actions and for the incident that occurred this week at my residence.

The board issued a statement on the 3rd that said “the events leading up to Valerie Parrish’s resignation were truly unfortunate for the family and the school system”.

33-year-old Jodi Lynn Barrus surrendered to police and was charged with Sexual Exploitation of a School Student according to the Wright County, Iowa Sheriff’s Office.

Barrus is currently out on bond.

The Belmond, Ia School District got in touch with the Wright County Sheriff’s Office to get them to start an investigation. The alleged victim is a boy who goes to the High School where Barrus teaches. The Sheriff’s Office is currently not releasing the age or name of the student or the type of alleged contact.

Her MySpace can be found here.

…or perhaps he was TOO nice.

37-year-old Kevin Matthew Nice was indicted last Friday on charges involving four teenage girls from Pilot Rock High School in Pendleton, Oregon. The charges are Sodomy, Sexual Penetration, Sexual Abuse, Luring a Minor, Child Sexual Display and Official Misconduct.

From September 2007 until November 2009 Kevin Nice, who taught for 12 years, allegedly engaged in sexual relationships with four different students he new in his capacity as a teach and coach at the high school. Police haven’t released a lot of information in the case as of right now but more will be forthcoming.

Nice is currently lodged in the Umatilla County Jail on $1 million bond.

33-year-old Laura Deane Lyles from Jasper, Georgia has been arrested and charged with Sexual Assault, Sodomy and Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor after she was of having sex with a male student from Pickens County High School (Laura’s page a Pickens).

Lyles is a science teacher at Pickens and police say that the sexual encounter occurred on the Pickens County High School Campus.

The school superintendent reportedly brought the allegations to the attention of the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office.

Lyles is currently lodged in the Pickens County Jail without with no bond.

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Laura’s MySpace

41-year-old Melinda Dennehy of Hampstead, New Hampshire turned herself in to police in Londonderry after she was accused of emailing nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old student at Londonderry High School, where she teaches. She has been released on $10,000 bond after being charged with Indecent Exposure and Lewdness.

Dennehy was placed on administrative leave Wednesday, which is the same day that the school and police were informed of the pictures, which are now being sent around the school.

The kid who received the photos from Dennehy (and then forwarded them to two other male students) claims that Dennehy sent him text messages offering her sexual services and kissed him at school twice recently.

Police have question the boy as well as several other male students including the ones who received the photos. The arrest affidavit says that at least one photograph shows the mother of two with her “genitals exposed”. Also according to the affidavit (which can be seen here) Dennehy continuously sent the child text messages, in some of them telling the student that she wanted to give him a blow job.

Yurp.

While I am quite an admirer of the female form in all shapes and sizes, somehow the thought of looking at Dennehy’s beef curtains is a visual I really didn’t want tonight. Just damn.

Dennehy has her arraignment on April 30th and has also been put on administrative leave with pay from Londonderry High School. She has been ordered as a stipulation of her bond to stay away from anyone under 16.

H/T to Me ToSee

Melinda and her husband must share the same email address as this is the MySpace account linked to it. Either that or she sent the nude pictures from her husband’s email account.

Updated 3/26/10 – Melinda Dennehy has resigned her teaching position rather than remaining on administrative leave. Police are also trying to determine if she violated her bond when she attended a gymnastics meet last weekend that the victim also attended.

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Back on February 24th 34-year-old John Samuel Gravely of Warner Robins, Georgia, a teacher at Northside High School in Warner Robins, was arrested and charged with Child Molestation and making False Statements for incidents that allegedly occurred earlier in the month.

According to the incident report Gravely, the head wrestling coach at NHS and football coach for Northside Middle School, fondled a 15-year-old female student in front of a male student and also asked him to join in.

Since his initial arrest two other students have come forward with separate allegations, one of which told police that in December of last year Gravely hugged her and kissed her neck in the process.

Gravely is currently out on $2,000 bond and on house arrest with an ankle monitor after a hearing earlier this week. He is forbidden from having any contact with the victim or anyone else under 16 for that matter.

The two False Statements charges Gravely is facing apparently are from incidents during questioning from February 5th and 11th during the initial investigation. The school initially made the report, which was sent to the Houston County DA’s Ofice who turned it over to the Houston County Sheriff.

Gravely has also given a letter of resignation, through his lawyer, effective on March 15th.

Thanks to Me ToSee for the story.

John’s MySpace

Last week police in Manassas, Virginia received information that pointed toward 49-year-old Kevin Garfield Ricks, an English teacher at Osbourn High School. The allegations are that the man had sex with a 16-year-old former student.

According to police the sexual contact between the boy and Ricks took place back in December and January.

Ricks has been arrested and charged with Carnal Knowledge, Aggravated Sexual Battery and Indecent Liberties While In a Supervisory Position. He’s currently being held without bond.

35-year-old Charles Clarke was a coach at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Atlanta up until recently. He worked as a part-time swim coach for the school until his arrest and subsequent termination by the Atlanta School System.

Clarke was arrested at the end of January and charged with Child Molestation, Aggravated Sodomy, Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, Statutory Rape, Sexual Assault, Enticing a Child for Indecent Purposes and Battery. Clarke is currently lodged in the Fulton County Jail.

Atlanta police opened an investigation after a student at the Middle School confided to her mother and a counselor that Clarke had raped her. The man allegedly took the 15-year-old girl to the Fulton Inn Motel, gave her drugs and alcohol and then raped her.

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35-year-old Stephenson Middle School Spanish teacher Rafer Lamar Grier is currently lodged in the Dekalb County Jail charged with Aggravated Child Molestation and Statutory Rape over incidents that happened in 2008.

Grier was arrested on February 5th.

Apparently law enforcement didn’t see fit to inform Dekalb County Schools about Grier’s arrest and the charges, as they claim to not have heard anything about it until they received a media inquiry from CBS Atlanta.

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Yet another teacher from Tennessee is in the news this week for alleged “improper conduct” with her students. In this case it was supposedly several students, at least according to the Courier News in Clinton, Tennessee. I would link to the site but you can’t even access the article without having to pay $26 for a six month subscription. Fuck them.

Anyway, while no charges have been filed again her, 27-year-old Social Studies teacher Megan Grubb Baumann has been placed on unpaid leave and is the target if a multi-jurisdictional investigation involving the Clinton Police and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as well as DCS.

Reportedly two students became “concerned” about the relationship between Baumann and another student and went to the principal. After interviewing her on Thursday the school board suspended her in accordance with Anderson County Schools policy.

29-year-old Carter High School teacher’s assistant Heather A. Pratt of Knoxville, Tennessee has been on administrative leave since shortly before Christmas break this past year after the Knox County Sheriff’s Department informed them of an investigation going on involving Pratt in what police are calling an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Police in Knox County aren’t releasing a lot of details in the ongoing investigation but apparently the TN Department of Children’s Services has been investigating it as well since she went on leave on November 30th.

Pratt has been employed by Knox County Schools for slightly over a year, having worked as a substitute teacher, in the food services department and finally as a teacher’s assistant.

39-year-old Tammy Renee Clinton, a teacher at Farnell Middle School, was arrested yesterday after being accused of trying to coerce a 14-year-old 8th grade student to have sex with her.

Reportedly, last month Clinton grabbed the 14-year-old boy’s ass and then forced him to touch her breasts. She allegedly tried twice to get the boy to meet her off of school grounds to have sex with her but it creeped the kid out so much that he reported her to another teacher two days ago. The teacher in turn told the principals who contacted the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

Clinton has taught for the last eight years and this is the first time there have been any allegations of any improper behavior.

Clinton was released from the Hillsborough County Jail on $30,000 bond.

Arrest Inquiry

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Shanna Detwieler, a 40-year-old teacher in a Paulding County, Georgia middle school, has been arrested and charged with Child Molestation and Sexual Battery for having what is described as a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy. Detweiler teaches science at Austin Middle School.

Detwieler, who lives in Dallas, GA, was arrested yesterday by the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office. She was lodged in the Paulding County Jail and bonded out today on $4,050.

The alleged incident did not happen on school property but the Paulding County School System has taken her out of the classroom, but wouldn’t part with any more information.

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26-year-old Kyle Campbell, a teacher at Creekland Middle School in Cherokee County, was arrested earlier today and charged with Child Molestation.

The 15-year-old student told the school’s resource officer that one of the male teachers had inappropriate contact with him according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department. After spending the last week investigating the incident, Kyle Campbell of Jasper, Georgia was arrested at the school district’s print shop and lodged in the Cherokee County Jail.

He is currently being held without bond.

Kyle Campbell’s MySpace Profile

Kyle’s “Dating ‘n More” Profile

36-year-old Stacey Rochelle Goodloe is a former Ceres, California teacher’s aide. I say former because she has been terminated from her position and has been charged with six sex charges including Unlawful Sex and Oral Copulation With a Minor after being arrested back in March 2009.

Goodloe allegedly had sex at least six times in hotels in the area as well as in her car near a park in Modesto. According to testimony provided by her victim Goodloe would pick him up at his house in her car and then drive them to Mancini Park where they would have sex. The teacher’s aide even came to visit him in the hospital when he had a broken leg.

When police initially contacted police she told them she thought they were asking about gang threats to her family and at the high school and that she was afraid of her 15-year-old victim, that he owned a knife and had threatened to kill himself. She then told police that she was in love with the student and admitted to having had a sexual affair with the boy.

Goodloe is to be arraigned in Stanislaus County Court on January 25th. She pleaded not guilty to the charges last year. It’s certainly taken long enough to finally get this into court.

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32-year-old Amy Lynn Barhite, a teacher at West Florence High School in South Carolina has been arrested and charged with Criminal Solicitation of a Minor after she allegedly exchanged inappropriate text messages with two of her students.

Apparently someone in the administration heard a rumor that Barhite might be giving alcohol to students and when they questioned one student about it indirectly the kid asked them if they were inquiring about the text messages. ooops.

Turns out that during most of the first half of last year she was supposedly sexting two different students. According to investigators she was texting them,

for the purpose or intent of persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing the underage person to engage in or participate in sexual activity.

Barhite was arrested earlier today by police in Florence County. According to the Florence School District One Barhite is no longer employed.

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Back in October 42-Year-Old Christopher John Ontiveros, a teacher at Oxford Academy in Cypress, California, reportedly one of the best high schools in Orange County, was arrested and charged with Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Communication With a Minor, Grooming a Minor and Child Annoyance after he allegedly had inappropriate sexual contact with one of his students over a period of several months.

The Cypress Police Department sent out this press release on October 22nd,

On October 13, 2009, information was brought forward to the Cypress Police
Department by school officials from the Anaheim Union High School District reporting possible inappropriate, sexual contact between a teacher and minor student. The teacher was a full time faculty member at the Oxford Academy located in Cypress and the victim, whose identity is being withheld, was a female student at the school.

After the preliminary investigation, Cypress Police detectives believe over the course of several months, inappropriate sexual contact between the suspect and the minor student under the age of 18 occurred.

Cypress detectives arrested the suspect on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, at
approximately 11:38 a.m. in the City of Tustin. Mr. Christopher John Ontiveros (12-17-66) was placed under arrest and transported to the Cypress City Jail where he was booked on the charges of PC 220(a) – Assault with intent to commit a felony, PC 243.4(e)(1) – Sexual battery, PC 288.2(a) – Sending harmful matter to a minor with intent to seduce, PC 288.3(a) – Contact with a minor to commit specific offense, and PC 647.6(a)(1) – Child annoyance. Mr. Ontiveros was being held on $100,000 bail and was able to post bail. He was released from the Cypress City Jail on a notice to appear in Court on Wednesday, January 6, 2010, at the West Justice Center.

The investigation is ongoing and detectives are equally concerned about the potential of other victims that may have had contact with this suspect. Anyone with information pertaining to this case or other unreported cases is urged to contact the Cypress Police Department, Detective Bureau at (714) 229-6631.

Ontiveros was arraigned on Wednesday, January 6th and pleaded not guilty to all charges. According to the arrest warrant Ontiveros got familiar with the victim during tutoring sessions which then led to some sort of counseling for medical issues and then the two started spending time together outside of school.

The victim’s mother apparently found a bunch of text messages on her daughter’s phone last fall and had her report it to the principal, who transcribed them (10 typewritten pages worth) to be turned in to law enforcement as well as to most likely remove the man from his teaching position.

The text messages include the following as well as plenty more,

Now the mist across the window hides a light, but nothing hides the color of a light that shines… You…dress in pink and blue just like a child, in a yellow taxi turn to me and smile, stepping out tonight!

I think of u constantly, see u everywhere, still a session with photo album, write bad post its, constantly;

I fell when I stole extra long stares at u as u left 106 late after class all those times last year;
I stumbled forever at apush (AP U.S. History) nights watching u stretch and reposition itself on the red couch;
u grabbed my hand in the onion feast and my heart leapt… I can go on and on… may I please hold u? May I explore and kiss each lip tenderly?"

Greatest thing ever was u left a draft on the monitor, apologized, then typed ty, ily. I soared told everyone how happy I was, u affect me. Let’s sleep together tonight, shalli climb through ur window? Will u let me in?

Ontiveros wrote that he was "still aching from today’s goodbye," and added, "if I may be so bold, to ask you to wear an article that allows easy access."

On Oct. 7, he wrote, "Maybe there’s many ways to prove myself, but one forsure is when I get to hold u and share this ecstatic love making, it’s real and binds us."

On Oct. 8, he set up a meeting: "At per 8, I’m taking the suburban to office parking across from library; I’m running in to change clothes in the men’s room at the east end; passenger door will be unlocked just in case; have a wonderful day."

On Oct. 11, two days before the investigation started he texted "I know u aren’t feeling well and I suspect something’s up at home… ur mom is calling us; dnt know why, wants to talk to Mrs. O; hmm; we’ll never retreat…"

That’s some seriously creepy shit.

Ontiveros is married and has children, at least one is still living at home. It sucks that when someone victimizes a child like this they don’t take into account the fact that not only are they hurting that person but they are victimizing the child’s family as well as their own family and friends.

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Leah Gayle Shipman, a 39-year-old teacher from Brunswick County Academy in Wilmington, North Carolina, has been arrested and charged with Statutory Rape, Indecent Liberties With a Child and Sexual Acts by a Teacher.

The alleged incidents happened starting in April of 2009 when her victim was 15-years-old.

Shipman has been teaching in Brunswick County since 2002 and has been suspended pending the investigation. The school system has been working with the Brunswick County Sheriff and made the sheriff’s department aware of the allegations as soon as they found out about it.

Shipman is currently lodged in the Brunswick County Jail on $100,000 bond.

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The charges came about after the boy’s parents found sexually graphic text messages from Stitzel on their son’s cell phone. Police were contacted on November 29th and began an investigation. In addition to the text messages it’s alleged that she and the boy had kissed (ewww. Not even drunk) and had other inappropriate contact on and off of school grounds.

Jennifer Stitzel was lodged into the Linn County Jail and then released. She has a court appearance scheduled for December 23rd. She was suspended from the school and has since resigned her position.

Check out the t-shirt Jennifer is wearing in her mug shot. See what it says?

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FAIL!

When the police officer attempted to question McGee about why she was there and what they were doing she initially lied to law enforcement. The parents of the child were not aware that their son was with McGee.

She has been charged with False Pretense and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor. From what I have read she has been ordered to pay a fine withing 30 days of the arrest. According to police there is no indication that there was any inappropriate contact between McGee and the student.

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While certainly not the first educator to ever have sex with a student Debra Lafave was one of the first to be seriously prosecuted for it and ushered in the current trend of outing the small percentage of teachers who consider their profession to be entry into a dating pool.

Lafave was originally arrested in 2004 for having sex with a 14-year-old student. She pleaded to a lesser charge in late 2005 and was placed on three years of house arrest to be followed by seven years of probation. Part of her deal was not to have any contact with children.

LaFave’s attorney is asking the court for limited contact with a small group of children, namely those in her family and friends. LaFave recently finished her sex offender ‘treatment’ program that she’s been participating in since 2005.

I am sort of on the fence on this one. Obviously we can all see what a PITA it would be not to be able to have any contact with family members when their children are around but then again perhaps she should have thought about it before doing the horizontal bop with a 14-year-old child. What do you think it?

Updated 10/29/09 – Now that I’ve had a day to sit back (not really) and wonder what the hell I was thinking when I posted this I see that the judge ruled earlier today in Lafave’s request.

Not only did the judge give her permission to have supervised contact with the children of family and friends but Judge Wayne S. Timmerman decided that since she had finished her sex offender therapy she can have unsupervised “apprpriate” contact with any minors (other than her victim).

What a crock of shit.

Back in December of last year a couple of sites I frequent posted about 46-year-old Elizabeth Gaddy, the social studies teacher at Callaway Middle School who was accused of molesting a 13-year-old male student during the ’07-’08 school year. You can read more about the initial case at both sites.

Basically Gaddy had oral sex with the boy and sent him over 5700 text messages at night while her husband was at work as well as phone calls, in addition to using other students to send him notes at school.

The charges of Aggravated Child Molestation and Enticing a Child for Indecent Purposes were dropped in exchange for Gaddy copping a guilty plea to Child Molestation. She was sentenced to five years in prison (she’ll be lucky to do one including time served) and 15 years of probation.

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39-year-old John Robert James Cody was arrested last week by Washington, Utah police on charges of sexual abuse of a child. The alleged incidents involved three different students aged 18, 15 and 12 according to a police report.

Cody has been teaching for 18 years according to his home page at Pine View High School and is a well-liked and respected teacher as well as a husband and father.

The Washington County School District has placed Cody on Administrative leave pending the investigation and will also be conducting a full investigation in cooperation with police. Prior to teaching for nine years at Pine View he taught in the Wyoming system for nine years.

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Back during the spring of 2008 now 31-year-old Allison Dean, an English teacher at Magnolia Junior High School in Arkansas, started a relationship with a 15-year-old student. It started out with her asking for his cell phone number and sending him text messages and over a period of time the two started smoking marijuana together and they had sex several times.

Dean was arrested in August of 2008 for sexual assault as well as for providing drugs to the minor after his mother grew suspicious of his cell phone use and he finally admitted to his father what was going on.

Jury selection for Dean’s trial was to have started this past week  She entered a guilty plea to four counts of sexual assault and has been sentenced to twenty years in prison.

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Being married to a teacher I know how hard it can be to make ends meet as an educator. If I were out of work for any length of time I don’t know what the hell we would do as teacher’s salaries are very low compared to other careers considering the amount of education and experience required.

Apparently Angela Strube of Smyrna, Tennessee allegedly found a way to get around that. She’s been arrested and charged with theft after the principal of a Murfreesboro Elementary School reported that she had possibly stolen lunch money from several students in the summer months from July through September.

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29-year-old Rebecca Dawn Bogard, who taught science in an alternative school in Biloxi, Mississippi, was arrested in January 2008 for having sex with a 15-year-old student from the school.

After having been found guilty of statutory rape the judge suspended six out of seven years of her sentence and she will now spend one entire year in jail for molesting a child. She has also been ordered to give up her teaching certificate and has to register as a convicted sex offender.

There is a MySpace account linked below that is listed as her’s but I am pretty sure someone else must have set it up. It has her mug shot as the profile picture and also has her age listed as 16.

What a load of crap.

Rebecca Bogard’s MySpace.

41-year-old James A Ciammetti of Oak Lawn, Illinois was arrested in September 2008 and accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student of his over the course of about 10 months. During that time he exchanged hundreds of emails with the girls, most of them explicitly obscene.

The girl’s father discovered the emails after using a program that tracks web activities and reported him to the local police. After an investigation Ciammetti was charged with Child Molestation, Sexual Misconduct With a Minor and Child Solicitation. He was lodged in the Lake County Jail and pleaded not guilty.

He was also indicted in March on federal charges that he sexually enticed a minor, crossed state lines for sex acts with a minor, made child porn and transported child pornography across state lines.

A couple of weeks ago Ciammetti (who claims to have Asperger’s Syndrome) sent Federal Magistrate Judge Paul Cherry a letter attacking the work of his defense lawyer, accusing him of being too busy to answer Ciammetti’s questions about the case. The letter was stricken from the record.

Ciammetti and his attorney have now agreed to a plea agreement that will have him facing 30 years in jail and another 20 on probation if the judge accepts it. Under the plea agreement Ciammetti will plead guilty to enticing the girl and making child porn if the state will drop their charges.

Back in January 25-Year-Old Nina R. Urban (Facebook) of Lucas, KS was arrested on charges that she had sex with one of her male students. After an investigation the Russell County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant and Urban turned herself in to the Sheriff.

She posted a $10,000 bond, was released and was placed on administrative leave at Lucas-Luray High School where she taught English. Urban also graduated from Lucas-Luray High School in 2002 and her father, David Urban serves on the local school board.

Urban, who was originally charged with three counts of Unlawful Sexual Relations reached a deal with the prosecutor and pleaded guilty to one of the counts. Her sentencing is supposed to be in January 2010. She has also resigned her teaching position.

37-year-old Rebecca Nichols, a former clerical aide at East Lawrence High School near Trinity, Alabama (southwest of Huntsville) was arrested and charged with contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor after allegedly supplying a 16-year-old male student with alcohol and drugs. The two also had a sexual relationship but since Alabama Law Enforcement is about 25 years behind the rest of the United States there have been no charges related to that because the boy claims that he initiated the contact and it was mutual. WTF? I’m sure that makes makes the boy’s mother, who filed the complaint, real happy. NOT. There are several different reports but in the one linked to below as the source the mother of the boy claims that Nichols initiated the sex and should be charged with rape.

Rebecca is currently going through a divorce, her husband being the principal of East Lawrence High School.

Nichols is currently free on $500 bond and is supposed to be back in court on September 3rd. Becky hasn’t logged into her MySpace page in about eight months so it’s obviously not active anymore.

While I rant and rave about predators and pedophiles on here I think that this was probably just a huge miscalculating mistake on Nichol’s part (albeit it a really ugly one) rather than a case of her being a predator or pedophile. Unfortunately as adults when me make bad decisions like this it can have long-lasting effects on a child that we don’t even consider.

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