40 year old Maurna Thornton, a former teacher at Hornbeck High School in Hornbeck, Louisiana has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to carnal knowledge of a juvenile. What's worse, apparently Louisiana still has chain gangs or something, because her sentence reads "10 years at hard labor". Ouch, sucks to be you.
Thornton's sentence was suspended to 5 years, with 5 years of probation to follow her release from prison. Thornton will also be a registered sex offender.
Thornton was accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14 year old mal...
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James Leonarczyk, a 40 year old teachers aide at Phillipsburg Middle School in Phillipsburg, New Jersey has been indicted on second and fourth degree endangering the welfare of a child.
Leonarczyk is accused of possessing over 50 images depicting child porn. It is alleged that Leonarczyk was caught after investigators were looking into another user. Police executed a search warrant on Leonarczyk's home and found the 50 images, along with 8 zip discs.
Leonarczyk was charged with 4th degree possession of child pornography after turning himself in. He was then relea...
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Robert Godfrey, a 23 year old gym teacher at Ewing High School in Ewing, New Jersey has been arrested and indicted on charges of official misconduct, child abuse, distributing obscene materials to a minor and two counts of sexual assault.
Godfrey is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17 year old female student. It is alleged that Godfrey sent the girl nude pictures of himself to her cell phone, and that she sent nude pictures of herself to him.
The alleged relationship is reported to have lasted for 3 months. Godfrey is being held on a $25,000 bond. I...
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28 year old Aaron Stewart was scheduled to start teaching at Clearwater Intermediate School in Clearwater, Florida, in the fall. However, he may be teaching his bunkie how to read in a Florida state prison after police found a cache of child porn on his computer.
Steward is accused of trading child porn with somebody online. Investigators allegedly traced the files back to Stewarts home computer. After a search warrant was executed on his home, police say they found a number of images depicting adults having sex with children.
Stewart was charged with 1 count of ...
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Ronald Norris, the 57 year old former english teacher at Frontier High School in Derby, New York has been sentenced to 6 and a half years in federal prison for possession of child porn.
Norris pleaded guilty to the charges in January 2008. He is also expected to surrender his teaching certificates to the state of New York, as well as 5 years of probation after his release, and a $24,000 fine.
Norris was caught after Homeland Security and ICE agents performed an investigation online.
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42 year old Ralph Waye, math teacher at Colleton County High School in Walterboro, South Carolina has been arrested on charges of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and lewd act with a minor.
It is alleged that Waye sexually assaulted a 14 year old girl, who is not a student at Colleton County, high school. The girl reported the alleged assault to the nurse at her school, who then notified the proper authorities.
Waye was released on $40,000 bond.
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Heather Thorsby, a 35 year old art teacher at Independence High School in Franklin, Tennessee, has pleaded guilty to 3 counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and 2 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. Thorsby was sentenced to 3 years in prison, and must register as a sex offender.
Thorsby and the girl, who was 17 at the time, reportedly began their relationship as simply friends, but somehow their relationship turned sexual. Thorsby and the girl reportedly had sexual contact both at the school, and Thorsby's home, between November 2006 and March...
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27 year old Justin Northcutt, along with his wife Amy, have been charged with harmful matter sent with intent of seduction of a minor.
Justin is a substitute teacher at Turlock Christian School in Turlock, California, and Amy is a former history teacher at the same school. The pair are accused of sending nude cell phone pictures, presumably of the wife, along with sexually oriented text messages, to a female student. The girls mother was made aware of the situation after Justin Northcutt was seen talking to the girl at a family get together. It is alleged that the ...
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Herbert Allen, the 64 year old reason that janitors have a bad reputation, who worked at the Model Creek School, in Peeples Valley, Arizona, has been arrested on charges of aggravated assault with sexual motivation.
It is alleged that Allen asked the student, a 13 year old female, to come into a back room of the school. She did so, and after she did, it is reported that Allen gave her a hug, then kissed her on the lips for a couple seconds. The girl told her mother who then called police.
After police investigated further, it seems Mr. Allen may have a little ob...
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47 year old Jack Ownes, a substitute teacher at Marion County High School in Jasper, Tennessee has been arrested on charges of statutory rape by an authority figure, exploitation of a minor by electronic means. Ownes was also charged with carrying a weapon on school property, however that charge has since been dropped.
Owens is accused of having sexual contact with a student on school property. The students parents found the messages on the students cell phone, and called police. After Owens texted the student and the texts became sexual in nature, the police began ...
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37 year old Shannon Fowler, a math teacher at Paul Knox Middle School in North Augusta, South Carolina has been arrested on 5 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, 1 count of enticing enrolled child from attendance in school, and 1 count of violating mandated test security regulations and procedures.
Fowler is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14 year old female student, including having sexually explicit conversation with her, and encouraged the girl to create a 'false persona or imaginary student' to hide their indiscretions.
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Physical Education teacher and Coach Lee Rucker, who worked in the Tarkio School District in Tarkio, Missouri, has been charged with first-degree child molestation and sexual misconduct involving a child less than 14 years of age, both felonies, and furnishing pornographic material to a minor, a misdemeanor.
Rucker has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the school, and his legal troubles have cost him some jail time, stopped only by a $250,000 cash bond.
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Daniel Zera, a 47 year old gymnastics instructor and owner of Back to Back Gymnastics at School at the St. Lawrence Centre Mall, in Massena, New York, has been arrested on 2 counts of 1st degree sexual abuse, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, 2 counts of unlawfully dealing with a child, and 1 count of unlawful imprisonment.
Zera is accused of having 2 13 year old girls at his house, where he gave them alcohol and then allegedly sexually assaulted on of the two girls. It is also reported that Zera allegedly would not let one of the girls call her pare...
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Eric Grange, the 45 year old former teacher at the Montessori Community School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina was arrested and has plead not guilty on five counts of statutory first-degree sex offense and four counts of indecent liberties with a child.
Mr. Grange is accused of molesting 5 girls, aging in range from 5 to 8 years old. Grange is not a US citizen, he is French. That's the first thing wrong with this guy. After police issued an arrest warrant for Grange, he was picked up by immigration officials at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.
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Melody Gawliu, the 24 year old former teachers aide at El Camino High School in South San Francisco, California, who was also a counselor at summer school, has pleaded no contest to oral copulation with a minor.
Gawliu is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old female student. Reportedly, other members of the faculty became suspicious when Gawliu brought balloons to the school for the girls 17th birthday. During a police investigation, police say they found text messages to the girl from Gawliu that advised the girl to deny any sexual activity or ...
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Timothy Byars, a 45 year old former track coach at Dyersburg High School in Dyersburg, Tennessee has been sentenced on 1 count of sexual battery and 1 count of statutory rape. The incidents are reported to have happened in November of 2006, before a track meet. The incidents involved 2 sisters.
Byars was sentenced to 9 years in prison, with one year in the Nashville-Davidson County Jail, another year in Knox County Jail, 7 years of supervised probation, lifetime non-reporting probation, and lifetime sex offender registration.
It is not clear why he didn't just se...
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Heather Chesser, the 26 year old teacher at the Phoenix School, in Crossville, Tennessee, which is an alternative school, has pleaded guilty to statutory rape. Chesser is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a teen aged male student at the school.
Chesser was originally charged with 2 counts of statutory rape and 2 counts of sexual battery, and released on $10,000 bond. Chesser requested a lawyer and plead not guilty after a grand jury indictment.
Chesser will be in court on September 26th, 2008, to face sentencing. The charge carries only a coupl...
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Armando Rodriguez, the 34 year old teacher at Castle Park High School in Chula Vista, California has been arrested and charged with 7 counts of annoying or molesting a child.
Rodriguez is accused of french kissing a 16 year old female student at the school on 7 different occasions. Rodriguez has pleaded not guilty on all 7 counts.
Rodriguez was released on his own recognizance and will be back in court September 2nd.
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Randy Sayler, the 46 year old volunteer football coach for 9th graders at West Valley Junior High in Yakima, Washington, has been sentenced on multiple molestation charges, to a minimum of 23 years in prison. Sayler was arrested after a boy who he coached accused him of molesting him. Shortly thereafter, Sayler incurred more charges as two other young boys came forward with allegations of molestation.
Two of the boys were 13, and one was 15 years old. It is reported that the molestations occurred in Saylers home, or during road trips traveling to sporting events. On...
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Allegedly. Mark Brown, the 37 year old principal at Highland Christian School in Arlington, Washington has been arrested and charged with 3rd degree rape of a child. Brown is accused of helping the 14 year old girl, a student at Highland, run away from home. It is further alleged that Brown allowed the girl to stay in a seldom-used area of the third floor of the school, with a fold-up bed and television.
Even further alleged, Brown is accused of supplying the girl with alcohol, and then sexually assaulting her. It is not clear if the sexual allegations were consensu...
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Michelle Morano, the 34 year old former teacher at West Essex Regional High School in North Caldwell, New Jersey has been sentenced to 3 years probation. Morano was originally arrested in 2007 after being accused of having sex with a 17 year old special education student.
Morano admitted to two sexual encounters with the boy in late 2007. The prosecution and family of the boy pushed for jail time, however the judge was quoted as saying "There is a difference between justice and vengeance", and gave her the 3 year probation term. Morano's name came up after the boy w...
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Craig Dinwiddie, awesome name haver, and 52 year old spanish teacher at Gonzales High School in Gonzales, California has been arrested on 7 counts of possession of child pornography, 2 counts of distributing child pornography, 2 counts of annoying children and 1 count of possession of marijuana. Of course, who doesn't like to get stoned while looking at child porn?
Apparently somebody received some porn, in some way, by an AOL user. Police ordered AOL to release the personal information of that person, I'm assuming via IP address, and the information was traced back...
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Laura Kirkland, the 25 year old 5th grade teacher at Christian Schools of Springfield, in Springfield, Missouri, has been arrested on charges of statutory rape and statutory sodomy of a person less than 14 years old. The boy in question is an 11 year old boy, who she has allegedly molested over the past 2 years.
Kirkland reportedly babysat for the boy from ages 8-10 years old, where she repeatedly had intercourse and oral sex with the boy in his home. Kirkland is also reportedly a day care worker. Great. Kirkland remains jailed, thank god, on a $75,000 bond.
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45 year old Kevin Goddu, a former teacher at Timberlane Regional High School in Plaistow, NH has plead guilty to 2 charges of misdemeanor assault, following a lengthy legal battle. Goddu was arrested in June of 2007 on 14 counts of felonious assault, for allegedly raping a 16 year old female student.
Goddu's lawyer reported that the two had been in a consensual relationship, and that there were witnesses to contest to that theory. After 9 hours of deliberations, in December of 2007, Goddu's fate ended in a Mistrial, with the jury deadlocked at 5 voting guilty, 7 vot...
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Joseph Curie, the 51 year old math teacher at Vista Del Lago High School in Moreno Valley, California, has been arrested on suspicion of child annoyance, a misdemeanor. It is alleged that Curie was passing inappropriate notes in class to a 15 year old female student, during summer school classes.
The story gets even weirder. Curie was arrested and subsequently released, with no charges yet filed, and his case turned over to the prosecutors. Curie says that he often gives students notes of encouragement during class, or to commend their work. This time, however, Curi...
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