A Chronicle of teachers behaving badly, teacher sex scandals, and other indiscretions

Donald Sharp

Donald Sharp, a 32 year old freshman soccer coach at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills, Michigan has been arrested on charges of using a computer to commit a crime and accosting a child for immoral purposes.

Sharp is accused of having inappropriate contact with a 15 year old female student from the soccer team that he coached. The girl alerted her parents that Sharp had sent her messages through the internet social networking website Facebook.
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Ronald Anderson

Executive Principal at Kennedy Middle School in Antioch, Tennessee, Ronald Anderson, was arrested in connection with allegations that he molested two young boys at his church within the last decade.

Anderson was charged with 12 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. Anderson is said to have allegedly molested the boys, who were members of the Royal Life International Church in Madison, Tennessee.
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Elissa Myers, 28 year old former english teacher at Cranberry High School in Seneca, Pennsylvania has been arrested and charged with corruption of minors, in relation to a sexual relationship that occurred between 2006 and 2007.

Myers is accused of having sex with a male student, who at the time, was 17 years old. Myers and the boy allegedly engaged in a sexual relationship with each other between September 2006 and January 2007.

Myers was arrested after the boys mother reportedly found out about the alleged relationship and contacted the police. Myers had worked for the school since 2005, and resigned in 2007.

Emili Daniels

34 year old Emili Kay Daniels, a biology teacher at American Heritage Academy in Cottonwood, Arizona has been arrested and charged with 3 counts of sexual conduct with a minor.

It is alleged that Daniels and a 17 year old male student had had an ongoing sexual relationship since November 2008. The principal of the school walked in on the two in Daniels’ classroom, after finding her door unlocked. The principal reported that the boy had his pants down near Daniels’ desk and Daniels herself, exposing his underwear.
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Tiffany Steedman

Tiffany Steedman, the 27 year old Pre-Kindergarten teacher at Elizabeth High school, in Elizabeth, Louisiana has been arrested on allegations that she had sex with a 16 year old boy. Elizabeth High School is a School that serves all grades from Pre-K through 12th grade.

Steedman has been charged with carnal knowledge of a juvenile as well as repeated telephone harrassment. It is alleged that this sex scandal in Lousiana started out after the boys mother reported to the authorites that Steedman was having sex with her son, and even after being advised not to do so, made multiple contacts with the boy as well.

It is alleged that the sexual relationship between the boy and Steedman had been ongoing since November 2008. Reportedly Steedman has been released on bond.

Valynne Asay Bowers

39 year old Valynne Bowers, one of two Bountiful Utah teachers arrested for having sex with the same 13 year old boy, a math teacher at Bountiful Junior High School, is facing charges of forcible sodomy of a child and child rape.

It is alleged that since December of 2008, the boy and Bowers have been having a sexual relationship at Bowers’ home. Bowers came to the attention of police after another teacher at the school, Linda Richins Nef, was arrested after confessing to having sex with the same boy from October 2007 until December of 2008.

Linda Nef implicated Valynne Bowers as having sex with the boy while she was being interviewed by police. Bowers is now being held on a $20,000 bond.

Linda Richins Nef

Linda Richins Nef, 46 year old teacher and cheerleader advisor at Bountiful Junior High, in Bountiful, Utah has been arrested on charges of rape and sodomy on a child.

Nef was arrested and released from jail after confessing to her supervisor of the alleged sexual assaults. It is reported that the alleged assaults took place between October 2007 and December 2008.

During the investigation, Nef implicated that another teacher, Valynne Bowers, was having sex with the same 13 year old student since December 2008. Bowers was arrested on charges of forcible sodomy of a child and child rape. She is in jail on a $20,000 bond.

Benjamin Caldwell

Benjamin Caldwell, the 29 year old Athletic Director at Hayworth Christian School, in High Point, North Carolina and Youth pastor at Hayworth Wesleyan Church has been arrested for multiple sex crimes after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14 year old girl.

The girl reportedly is not a student at the school, however it is not clear if she is a parishioner of the Wesleyan Church or not. It is reported that, after the girls parents found Caldwell in their home, they detained him until police arrived.

After being interviewed, Caldwell reportedly confessed to multiple sex related offenses, and has been charged with 6 counts of statutory rape of a 14-year-old, 3 counts of statutory sex offense against a 14-year-old and 8 counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor.

Caldwell is being held on a $500,000 bond, and police say they are not ruling out the possibility that there could be more victims. Since his arrest, Caldwell has been let go from his positions both at Hayworth Christian School and Hayworth Wesleyan Church

Eric Johansen Jr

Eric Johansen Jr., a 30 year old teacher at Seneca High School, in Tabernacle, New Jersey has been arrested after allegations surfaced of him having sexual contact with a female student inside the school.

It is not clear what exactly happened or whether or not the alleged incident was consensual or not.

Johansen has been charged with 3rd degree aggravated criminal sexual conduct. After 4 years of working with the district, Johansen has reportedly been placed in a position within the school system that does not put him in contact with students.

Kolbee Kearns

24 year old Kolbee Kearns, our second 24 year old teacher suspected of sex with a student for the day, and in a row, and also the former teacher at Solvay High School in Solvay, New York has been arrested and charged with third degree rape, felony third degree criminal sexual act and misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child.

It is alleged that Kearns engaged in sexual acts with a female student between January and February of 2009. School officials were alerted to an alleged sexual relationship between Kearns and the student, and alerted the police.

Police say there were allegedly multiple sexual encounters, though none of them are believed to have occurred on school grounds. Kearns reportedly has resigned from his position at the school.