First day of teaching.
Jury unable to decide. Judge drops charges.
April 3, 2008 - Virgil Harper, 65, a substitute teacher at Powell Elementary School, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of 10 counts of lewd acts with children, authorities said.
The arrest came 10 days after children at the elementary school reported Harper touched them inappropriately. Investigators believe the alleged acts took place over a one and a half hour period on what district officials said was Harper's first day teaching at the school.
Full Name: Virgil Cleon Harper AKA Cleon Harper AKA V Cleon Harper
Student accuses substitute of inapproriate touching (March 27)
Police are investigating allegations of inappropriate conduct by a teacher at an elementary school, officials said Thursday. Officials confirmed the substitute teacher - whose identity was not released pending the investigation - has been accused of inappropriately touching fourth-graders at Powell Elementary on Mauna Loa Avenue
Harper was being held at the Azusa city jail today pending a court hearing Monday at L.A. County Superior Court in Pomona.
April 4 - Since 2000, Harper has taught at 11 other schools in the district, ranging from the elementary to high school level. He is a commissioner on Azusa's Architectural Barriers Commission, a board member of Stepping Stones for Women, an organization that provides services for single mothers and their children, and a former adjunct professor at Azusa Pacific University. His wife strongly denies the allegations.
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Los Angeles County District Attorney Press Release (dated Apr 7, 2008)
Case No. KA082693
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TT - Students at Rate My Professor rated him as poor. One commented that Harper "got fired halfway through his first semester of undergraduate teaching...does that explain it? "
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CHARGED April 7 - Harper was charged on Monday with nine counts of lewd act on a child under age 14. Harper's arraignment is scheduled for April 18.
NOT GUILTY PLEA April 19 - Harper pleaded not guilty to 9 counts of child molestation. A preliminary is scheduled for May 8.
HUNG JURY - JUDGE DROPS CHARGES October 28 - A jury deliberated for three days before failing to reach a decision Monday. Seven jurors believed Harper was guilty while five believed he was not. The judge Tuesday dropped lewd conduct charges against Harper, calling the accusations "implausible," officials said.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Azusa, CALIFORNIA
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Bloomington, ILLINOIS
In May, he had a Bible with him in the courtroom and blew kisses to supporters as security escorted him out of the courtroom.
ARRESTED May 7, 2007 - James Love, 37, a substitute teacher at District 87 and Unit 5, arrested last weekend, was ar
rested again on new charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and aggravated battery. The new allegations relate to two more victims. Police say the first alleged incident happened at Love's home, and the victim is between 13 and 16 years old.
He was arrested Monday on charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and aggravated battery for administering an anesthetic agent for other than medical purposes.
Police spokesman Duane Moss says the new charges also involve minors.
Parents and others who may have information on the case to contact Bloomington Police Detective Michael Burns at 434-2457.
Love is a minister at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington. His work with youth was cited when he received Bloomington's 2006 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Award. He also was a substitute teacher in Bloomington and Normal.
Love is, apparently, accused of anesthetizing and molesting a child under age 13.
FOURTH BOY May 16 - A fourth boy has come forward to accuse a former substitute teacher in Twin City schools of molestation. Love is to be arraigned on May 18th.
NOT GUILTY PLEA May 18 - Love pleaded not guilty to molesting four boys at his home. Love is being held in the McLean County Jail on $40,000 bail. He is due back in court June 22.
Love, a youth minister, had a Bible with him in the courtroom and blew kisses to supporters as security escorted him out of the courtroom.
TRIAL SCHEDULED June 22 - Trial has been scheduled for July 22.
TRIAL POSTPONED July 13 - The trial has been postponed at the request of the at prosecutors, who said they are waiting for DNA evidence. A status hearing is scheduled for July 21.
INDICTED Oct 17 - Love has been indicted on federal charges of child pornography. The U.S. Attorney says Love photographed two young boys for the purposes of child pornography.Those images were allegedly among the pornographic pictures found on Love's computer when police searched his home last month. He has been charged with two counts of production of child pornography.
Love will enter a plea to the new charges in Peoria federal court on October 29.
The state case is scheduled for trial on Dec 10.
NOT GUILTY PLEA Oct 29 - Love pleaded not guilty. While the Peoria trial is scheduled for Oct 29, the Federal trial is scheduled for Dec 17.
DELAY GRANTED Nov 21 - Love has been granted a defense request for a delay in his trial until federal charges are settled. His attorney contends that Love would have a better chance of getting a concurrent sentence if his state trial comes after he faces charges in federal court.
He has been granted permission to see his son - but only under supervision.
WJBC: Prosecutor Michelle Brooks also revealed in court there are still other, unidentified victims in pornographic photos found during the investigation and she urges anyone with information to call police. (See note at SENTENCED below.)
TRIAL SCHEDULED Jan 3, 2008 - Love’s federal trial on production of pornography is scheduled to begin in Peoria on Feb. 25. The local case will be on hold until the federal case is over.
INSANITY? Feb 2 - Love's attorney has filed a motion in Federal court maintaining that Love may have been legally insane when he allegedly photographed four teenage boys after sedating and molesting them at his home last year. The attorney says that says Love may be suffering from a mental disease that prevents him from understanding the charges. He has asked the court to order a psychiatric exam to determine if Love is competent to stand trial.
JUDGE ORDERS DELAY Feb 8 - The judge has delayed the trial while Love is evaluated.
GUILTY PLEA September 30 - Love pleaded guilty in Federal court to charges of producing sexually explicit photos of minors while they were sleeping. Under terms of the plea agreement, Love will serve 20 years in federal prison. Sentencing guidelines require Love to complete 85 percent of the prison term.The McLean County charges would be dismissed under the terms of the plea deal.
NOTE: Love has agreed to help prosecutors identify a victim in the photos.
Formal sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 23. That’s when U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm will consider the plea agreement.
STATE CHARGES DROPPED October 29 - State charges against Love have been dropped.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Franklin, NEW YORK
New charges bring the number of alleged victims to five.
September 27, 2008 - Robert R. Becker, Jr., 36, a substitute teacher's aide at Franklin Central School, was arrested Friday after he was indicted on four more charges of child sexual abuse, including first-degree rape.
After his arrest, he was arraigned on felony charges of first-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse and misdemeanor charges of second-degree unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child.
Becker was arrested in September and arraigned Sept. 15 on three counts of third-degree rape; one count of third-degree criminal sexual act; four counts of endangering the welfare of a child; and one count of second-degree attempted sexual abuse.He pleaded innocent to charges of having sex with a student and attempting to have sexual contact with two other students.
Delaware County District Attorney Richard Northrup said the new charges bring the number of alleged victims to five.
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LOCALE: Franklin is a small rural community located in the foothills of the Catskill Mountain Region of New York State, located about one-hour from Binghamton, Utica, Albany and three and one-half hours from New York City.
Delaware County
Friday, September 26, 2008
Colorado Springs, COLORADO
Feb 15, 2008 -
Lloyd Clark, 73, a substitute teacher is "speechless" that he was arrested after 
allegedly offering money to a student in exchange for sex. He is charged with felony of solicitation for child prostitution.
The incident happened at Wasson High School in Colorado Springs School District 11.
ARREST AFFIDAVIT Feb 20 - An arrest affidavit obtained by 11 News reveals disturbing details about what a District 11 substitute teacher allegedly asked a student to do in a recorded phone conversation.
Documents say 73-year-old Lloyd Clark offered a 15-year-old boy as much as $5,000 to perform sexual acts. The first incident allegedly happened in a classroom at Wasson High School last Thursday. The student immediately contacted the school resource officer.
According to the arrest affidavit, detectives then set up a recorded phone conversation between the alleged victim and Clark. In the conversation, a detective says Clark reiterated the agreement he allegedly made with the student earlier that day.
Feb 27 - Clark, who remains free on $10,000 bail, was ordered to return to court April 23 for a possible disposition.
GUILTY PLEA & SENTENCING (Sorta) September 17 - Clark pleaded guilty to o a charge of misdemeanor harassment, unlawful conduct on public property, as part of an agreement with prosecutors. A felony charge of solicitation for child prostitution was dropped, court records show.
Fourth Judicial District Judge Gregory Werner sentenced Clark to one year of supervised probation, ordered him to relinquish his teaching certificate for a year and ordered that he have no contact with anyone younger than 18 years old except family members.
Clark was the second former teacher this week to be accused of felony sexual misconduct with a student, then to plead guilty to a non-sex-related misdemeanor. A former Lewis-Palmer Middle School teacher and girls basketball coach, Gregory Jackson, pleaded guilty to harassment Monday after being charged with felony sexual assault on a child.TT Entry for Jackson.
TT - Surely it is the responsiility of the Department of Education to impose sanctions on Clark's teaching certificate. Perhaps the judge didn't trust that they would do anything.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Gowanda, NEW YORK
"When I saw that child's body in the morgue, covered from head to foot with bruises, I cried . . ."
September 5, 2008 - Harold Eisenman, 60, a substitute teacher in the Gowanda school district, was abruptly fired after school officials learned that he was convicted in 1973 of killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter by deliberately hitting her in a karate demonstration.
At the time of the girl's death, Eisenman was a substitute gym teacher at Merrick and Bellmore schools. He was sentenced to a term of 2 to 10 years in prison and released in 1982.
Eisenman demonstrated karate kicks to the girl's sibilings by demonstrating on her. He also instructed the 5-year-old and the 8 year-old to kick the child. The mother was convicted of criminally negligent homicide in a separate trial. She sat by and watched as the girl was hit with at least two blows that would have been fatal, including one that ruptured her kidneys. The mother then tried to revive the girl by punching her in the chest and holding her under a cold shower.
After seeing the dead girl's body at the Nassau County morgue, homicide commander Capt. William Meddis said, "When I saw that child's body in the morgue, covered from head to foot with bruises, I cried . . ."State officials said Eisenman was cleared in 2004 to work as a substitute teacher at the Gowanda school district after falsely claiming his manslaughter conviction stemmed from a reckless driving accident.
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Google Map - Gowanda
TT - State Departments of Education in every state are allowed to give waivers to hire public school teachers who have been convicted of crimes that range anywhere from manslaughter to drug dealing. You would think a felony conviction would preclude any possibility of employment, but it does not.
Most often you find these waivers in state Board of Education minutes. At the New York State Department of Education site, you will NOT find teacher disciplinary actions anywhere. You will find disciplinary actions against other "professionals" in the Board of Regents minutes. (Sample) but NOT teachers.
You can find information about every licensed professional except educators. You can also verify the license of every professional. Except teachers.
UPDATE - CHARGES FILED - September 25, 2008 - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the arrest of Harold Eisenman, 60, on a charge of lying to the New York State Education Department about his prior conviction for manslaughter in order to qualify as a substitute teacher.Eisenman was charged today with offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree (class E Felony), which carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison. The case was referred to the Attorney General by the State Education Department.
Monday, September 01, 2008
White Bluff, TENNESEE
May 22, 2007 - Julie Petty, 36, a substitute teacher at William James Middle School, was arrested and was charged with sexual battery by an authority figure and rape by an authority figure.
The sheriff said the victim is a 14-year-old girl at the school.
WKRN news: According to the court affidavit, the student said Petty “touched her all over and then went further.”
The Dickson County Sheriff is asking parents or anyone else to come forward if their children had inappropriate contact with Petty. 615-789-4130
INDICTED: August 30 - Petty was indicted on a charge of sexual battery by a person in authority and statutory rape by a person in authority. Both charges are Class C felonies.
Last month the judge put several restrictions on her. "Petty was also warned not to knowingly make a visual, audible, sexually suggestive or obscene gesture, sound, or communication at or to the alleged victim." She will be arraigned on September 10.
TRIAL SCHEDULED May 30, 2008 - Petty goes on trial Monday on sex-related charges involving an eighth-grade female student.
GUILTY PLEA - August 17, 2008 - Petty pleaded guilty to sexual battery by an authority figure. In exchange for that plea, the state dismissed a statutory rape charge against her. She will be sentenced next month.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Webster Parish, LOUISIANA
August 18, 20008 - David Taylor, 51, a substitute teacher, has been charged with being an accessory after the fact and indecent behavior with a juvenile. Police say knew of the aggravated rape of an 11-year-old girl, but instead of reporting it he asked her to do the same thing him.
Rockcola "Rocky" Plaisance, 19, is being held on $4 million bond after his arrest in Cotton Valley over the weekend. He is accused of aggravated rape of the girl.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Newark, NEW JERSEY
August 11, 2008 -
Cesar J. Rivero, 34, a substitute teacher in Newark, was arrested after trying to set up a sexual encounter with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
He was charged with attempting to endanger the welfare of a minor, attempted luring and attempted sexual assault.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Skidmore, TEXAS
August 5, 2008 - Rolando Longoria, 56, a substitute teacher in the the Skidmore Tynan Independent School District, was arrested August 1, charged with improper 
photography without consent and indecency with a child.
From the Beeville Bee-Picayne (August 6): Police said the victim in the initial charge was an adult.
[Deputy Capt. Dan] Caddell said that during the follow-up investigation, Linam found further evidence that led him to approach Justice of the Peace Joe Lyvers and obtain an arrest warrant against Longoria on a charge of indecency with a child by contact.During the search of the residence deputies seized computers and a cellular phone and turned them over for analysis at the crime laboratory in Corpus Christi.
Full Name: Rolando Rene Longoria
Bee County
Skidmore Tynan Independent School District has three schools with 780 students. Source: GreatSchools.net
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Ferndale, PENNSYLVANIA
Seventeen to thirty-four years in prison and lifetime registration as a sexually violent predator.
Feb 27, 2007 - Bruce Haskins, 48, was charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl. He faces multiple charges including statutory sex assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault and corruption of minors.
With his head in his hands, a Ferndale man sobbed as a 14-year-old girl described how he sexually assaulted her for nine years.[Entry continued here for space considerations.]
Update May 9 - Haskins is also being charged with taping the encounters and saving them on his computer. Haskins remains in jail, unable to make a $200,000 bond.
GUILTY PLEA Jan 19, 2008 - Haskins pleaded guilty to one count of rape, two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and one count of filming or photographing sex acts. He was accused of abusing the girl from the time she was 5 until she was 14.
Before sentencing, Haskins will be evaluated by the Sexual Offenders Assessment Board to determine if he is a sexually violent predator, which would require him to register his address with police for life. If he is not deemed a sexually violent predator, he will be required to register for 10 years after completing his sentence.
Two years ago, Haskins completed the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program for first-time offenders for similar charges from 2004. When he was a substitute teacher for the North Star School District, he was accused of inappropriately touching a 15-year-old girl.Haskins will be sentenced April 16.
See The Sexual Offenders Assessment Board (See SOAB Process.)
CBS3 (Jan 18) Ex-substitute teacher pleads guilty to molesting girl
Until his arrest in February, Haskins had been a Web-design instructor at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown. He also worked as a substitute teacher in the North Star School District in Somerset County.
Tribune-Democrat (Jan 17) Ferndale man admits years-long child-sex abuse
SENTENCED July 10 - Haskins was sentenced to 17 to 34 years in prison. He has been designated a sexually violent predator. [TT - Sexually violent predators are subject to lifetime registration and increased reporting requirements.]
State officials expect the length of the sentence to prevent Haskins from committing similar crimes in the future.
"He's 49. 17 years puts him at fairly advanced age as far as being released." [Herbert Hays of the PA Sexual Offenders Assessment Board ] said.
Eugene, OREGON
The conviction carries an automatic revocation of her teaching license.
Because of jail overcrowding, she most likely will serve no more than 10 days of the 60-day sentence.
June 6, 2008 - Sarah Bridges, 24, a substitute teacher in the Eugene School District, was arrested on accusations of third-degree rape, sodomy and sexual abuse for an 
alleged off-campus sexual encounter with a middle school male student earlier this year.
The arrest followed a complaint made earlier in the day by the school district that Bridges engaged in sexual activity with the student off-campus in March. Police did not identify the school where she taught or the age of the victim.
Full Name: Sarah Jayne Bridges
School officials said Bridges taught at all four high schools in the district this year in addition to the middle school. She had been a substitute since September 2006.
June 9 - No age was given for the student, but kval 13 reports that the since all in the third degree, meaning police allege the crime involved a child who is 14 or 15 years old. "Rape" is considered sexual intercourse under Oregon law. "Sodomy" covers a number of other sexual acts, including oral sex. "Sex abuse" is any other sexual contact.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Dan Braziel at 541-682.5836.
GUILTY PLEA & SENTENCING July 17 - Bridges pleaded guilty to one count each of third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy. She was sentenced to five years of probation and 60 days in jail for sexual contact with a middle school-age boy in two off-campus encounters earlier this year. As part of her sentence, she must undergo sex offender treatment and register as a sex offender.
Because of jail overcrowding, she most likely will serve no more than 10 days of the 60-day sentence, Chief Deputy Lane County District Attorney Alex Gardner said. The conviction carries an automatic revocation of her teaching license.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Fremont, NEBRASKA
What can you say?
June 19, 2008 - Julie A. Hamilton, 49, a substitute arrested for stalking a teacher, pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace, a Class III misdemeanor. The plea agreement was because Dodge County Attorney Paul Vaughan said he didn’t believe he had enough evidence to convict her of stalking another teacher, so he entered into a plea agreement.
Hamilton was accused in a case that dates back to 2004 and stems from a disagreement over National Honor Society nominations. Hamilton was accused of leaving letters for her victim - another teacher - and writing graffiti outside of her victim’s classroom. She also was accused of breaking windows of her victim’s house.
Hamilton had been a substitute since 1990. She was fined $500.
Hamilton is the wife of Fremont Middle School Principal Gale Hamilton.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
West Frankfort, ILLINOIS
"It was brought to a faculty member's attention and the principal and his designees, which are the faculty, are all mandated to report any weapons violations on school property," Tharp said.
June 18, 2008 - Jeremiah S. Mandrell, 26, a West Frankfort substitute teacher, was indicted for allegedly bringing a gun into classrooms in which he was teaching on more than one occasion. Mandrell
was arrested in April after officials with Central Junior High School contacted police regarding the teacher’s possession of a handgun.A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for August 21.
Police chief Jeff Tharp said Mandrell told detectives that he retrieved a gun from his vehicle and concealed it in his waistband after a verbal confrontation with a student. Mandrell also said he had brought the gun on campus previously, police said.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Miami, FLORIDA
June 13, 2008 - Guillermo Triana-Prieto, 44, a substitute teacher at Dante B. Fascell Elementary School, was arrested for allegedly fondling two girls.
Triana-Prieto was charged him with two counts of lewd and lascivious assault on a minor.
Reportedly, he was helping the two fourth graders May 23 with their math work at the school. Textbooks were propped on their laps, he began touching them inappropriately over their clothes, police said. The girls reported the allegations to another teacher during an awards ceremony that same day.
Triana-Prieto has been a substitute for the Miami-Dade school district for four years. He has no criminal record.
Monday, June 09, 2008
Winston-Salem, NORTH CAROLINA
"People do do things wrong," he said.
ARRESTED May 16, 2007 - Police arrested Hubert Crosby, 46, a substitute teacher at at Reynolds and Mount Tabor high schools, and charged him with having illegal sexual contact with two male students.
The newspaper doesn't provide it, but if you have information, contact Police at (336) 773-7700.
Update May 17 - Fox8: The investigation began when another student at Reynolds High School told a teacher he has been offered money for sex. Next court date is June 8.
NEW TWIST May 20 - In a new twist, police learned that they were not notified that Crosby had been removed from the substitute roster in response to allegations of sexual misconduct until almost three weeks later when a second boy's family contacted police.
Delayed reporting. The district removed Crosby Apr 3, but Winston-Salem Police were not aware of the allegation until April 23. A Forsyth County Sheriff's Deputy school resource officer at the school investigating Crosby stopped his work after learning that the allegation didn’t take place at the school.
The deputy then suggested that the family contact Winston-Salem police, which police said didn’t happen. The County Sheriff's office didn't notify Winston-Salem Police either.
NEW CHARGES July 21 - Police filed two new charges of taking indecent liberties with a third student - a 15-year-old boy. Cosby is being held on $1.5 million bond.
GUILTY PLEA May 20, 2008 - Crosby pleaded guilty to three counts of sex offense with a student, five counts of indecent liberties with a child and eight counts of indecent liberties with a student. He was sentenced to seven to nine years in prison.
He will be on five years of probation after release, and, after that, 10 years of wearing a monitoring bracelet that allows him to be tracked by satellite.
Friday, June 06, 2008
Long Beach, California
- Guilty plea, despite the best efforts of the local newspaper race-baiting rag and community activists semi-professional race-baiters who excuse any conduct, even violation of black youth.
- Sentenced to the minimum in prison and registration as a sex offender for life.
- The sendoff to the big house was touching.
Jan 31, 2008 - Dionn Holton, 32, a substitute for Long Beach Unified School District, was arrested on suspicion of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy.
Holton was arrested after the student told a Cabrillo High School staffer about two incidents that allegedly occurred on campus during school hours in late October and mid-December of last year. Holton was fired on Thursday.
He has been a substitute at half a dozen middle and high school campuses since August 2000. Holton was also an assistant basketball coach for the boys varsity team at Millikan High School.
Holton is the second basketball coach at Millikan H.S. to be arrested on suspicion of sex crimes since the start of the school year.
Head boys basketball coach Raul Olivas, also a mathematics teacher at the high school, was arrested on suspicion of secretly videotaping his 16-year-old stepdaughter in September after
the girl found a camera in her bedroom closet with graphic images of her in various states of undress. TT - entry
Long Beach police asked anyone with any information about Holton's possible contact with other children to contract Det. Hector Nieves at 562-570-7368
FAWNING Feb 2 - Holton a "former Poly High School basketball stand-out" and "West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year in 1995 at the University of Portland" working the same community where he grew up, etc, etc. etc. story in the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
Holton is scheduled to be arraigned at the Long Beach Superior Court on Monday.
HEARING DELAYED Feb 4 - Hearing delayed.
"I find it impossible that (Holton) could have done this."TT - Great newspaper coverage and there's a good possibility that before any trial, the Long Beach Press-Telegram can run maybe five or six more stories to help bias a jury against the victim. With any luck, in the Southern California tradition, the newspaper could even get angry and disaffected youth to throw stones through the boy's window and threaten him and possibly burn his house down.
[longtime friend Joe] Luyben said he worked very closely with Holton for three years and he said the 32-year-old husband and father of two [TT - Holton has four.] children was an inspiration to the youths on the St. Anthony's team.
Citing other cases where teachers and coaches have been wrongly accused of misconduct by students who were failing academically or having disciplinary problems, Luyben said it appears as though the school district and city moved too soon to fire Holton from his jobs.
"He now has no way to support his family," Luyben said.
"His reputation is already ruined by the articles and all the other things that have happened."
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Feb 8 - Awesome reporting.
Close to two dozen supporters filled the gallery of a Long Beach courtroom, and several more waited in the hall Friday, in support of a local substitute teacher charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.SHORT VERSION: His arraignment was postponed.
But they got this in:
A number of his supporters have said they believe the case is like others where students have falsely accused coaches and teachers of crimes to cover up their own disciplinary or academic problems, such as the case if Dominguez High Coach Russell Otis - who was acquitted of molestation charges in April of 2001. [TT and that's a distortion of what really happened.]NOT GUILTY PLEA Feb 11 - Holton pleaded not guilty and he has a private lawyer who is catching up on the case. [Why the mention of a "private" lawyer is another matter that someone ought to examine. Closely.] The Private Lawyer wanted a photographer from the newspaper barred from the courtroom, a motion the judge denied.
The "Private Lawyer" argued that he wanted the case "to be tried in the court," rather than the media. The "Private Lawyer" also accused the Press-Telegram of what he called "inflammatory reporting" on the case for a line in a story that said police were asking anyone with information on the case to call Sex Crimes Detective Hector Nieves. [TT - The "private attorney" is one supplied, not by a union, but by the "community activists" and the "inflammatory reporting" remark is to keep community sympathy. Someone did this to Dionn!!!]
Bail was raised to $150,000. He'll be in court for a preliminary hearing on March 3.
GUILTY AS SIN March 20 - Holton pleaded guilty to both felony charges that he had a 15-year-old boy perform oral sex on him at school last semester. He must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, the prosecutor added. He will be sentenced April 24.
TT - Criminals like this don't have "supporters." They have facilitators in the media, in the legal community and in the hatemongers who destroy community standards. Doesn't matter what the criminal does. He's black; they're proud. And if you don't think their little performances aren't meant to intimidate the victim and influence the D.A., you don't follow Southern California politics close enough.
SENTENCING DELAYED April 26 - Holton and his attorney requested a psychological profile in the hopes of finding a psychologist who will recommend probation so Holton can avoid prison. Sentencing was delayed until May 23.
SENTENCED May 23 - Holton was sentenced to 16 months in prison. He will have to register as a sex offender for life.
Sixteen months was the minimum term imposed by Judge Arthur Jean. Holton's lawyer provided the court with letters from former students, teachers, school administrators, relatives and friends that spoke highly of Holton's character and commitment to the community.
Yet, in a caption under the picture of Holton, the newspaper reported that the student student told authorities it was consensual, but he went to another staffer at his high school for help when Holton became too aggressive.
FAREWELL!!! FAREWELL!!! June 6 - Holton
surrendered quietly to authorities at the Long Beach Superior Court Friday morning.Holton was accompanied by an aunt, who gave him a hug and a kiss and some encouraging words before he was taken into custody, court officials said.
A kiss and some words of encouragement from a relative were the last things the 32-year-old experienced as a free man before deputies snapped handcuffs around his wrists and took him away to begin serving a 16-month prison term.
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TT - Kinda like the Good Ship Lollypop with a cheery reporter from the Long Beach Press-Telegram waving farewell in print to a fond friend. Reality check. How many felons do you know who get coverage when they show up to go to prison?
He's a 32-year-old married man with four children who had a 15-year-old boy perform oral sex on him twice. In a school, for God's sake!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tampa, FLORIDA
The headline reads: Another teacher arrested in Tampa
The mugshot: Another smiling female
April 30, 2008 - Jordan Tate, 19, isn't a teacher in Florida. 
She was arrested in Tampa on for grand theft and grand theft of a firearm charges.
She claims to be a substitute teacher in teacher in Liberty County, Georgia, working in Hinesville, Georgia.
Full Name: Jordan Ashley Tate
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Hillsborough Sheriff's Office online. No press release online at this time.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Alton, ILLINOIS
Substitute who reportedly bragged about outstanding traffic arrest warrant to her class is arrested.
April 26, 2008 - Jane Kodros, 50, a substitute teacher at Alton High School, was arrested after she reportedly told students Monday about an outstanding arrest warrant. They told their regular teacher when he returned the next day. Kodros was arrested during a second-hour class on Thursday at the school by the school resource officer.
The school's resource officer learned Kodros had a warrant for failing to appear at a court hearing related to a derelict vehicle in Alton, and also that her drivers license was suspended due to a drunken driving conviction, McLemore said.Madison County court records show that the warrant was issued in October 2003.
Police say she allegedly made an obscene gesture with her middle finger and used derogatory words int he classroom. She told students that she wanted to be called "Miss Bitch," said Madison County Sheriff's Capt. Marc McLemore.
Kudros says that allegations were stirred up by misbehaving students.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Egg Harbor, NEW JERSEY
Arrested for a string of arson fires.
April 20, 2008 - Elizabeth Peters, 43, a substitute teacher in Little Egg Harbor, was arrested with four counts of aggravated arson, two counts of burglary and two counts of attempted burglary. The arson charges are in connection to a series of fires that occurred between Feb. 20 and March 1.
The first fire destroyed a Great Bay Boulevard home.Three days later, an early morning fire destroyed a Nantucket Court home, authorities said. A fire Feb. 29, also on Great Bay Boulevard, damaged a home when a boat in the driveway apparently was set on fire. And on March 1, a home on North Boom Way sustained exterior fire damage.The Little Egg Harbor school system has students in preschool through eighth grade.
Neighbors were shocked.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Columbus, INDIANA
April 14, 2008 -
Ryan Allen, 26, a substitute teacher in the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation, was arrested, charged with child seduction, obstruction of justice, and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
An investigation started in February when a 17-year-old student contacted a police detective who also is an educator at Columbus East High School. The teen told the detective that Allen had acted inappropriately toward her. Police are not releasing details.
TheRepublic.com: (April 14) A former substitute teacher seduced a Columbus East student into a sexual relationship, offering her whiskey and sending her illicit text messages, authorities said. He was employed as a substitute teacher for Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. in February when the girl accused him of engaging in flirtatious conversations that led to a sexual encounter in a church parking lot.