Compiled by the San Bernardino Sun , one of the few newspapers that follow up on cases. An education blog would help keep all the stories together where readers could find them.
Area teachers either charged with or convicted of sexual misconduct with students
Eric Norman Olsen, 29 - Substitute teacher from Ontario who taught in at least 17 school districts. He pleaded no contest in February to charges that he improperly touched six female students. He faces a sentence between probation and five years in prison. Olsen told police he enjoyed female students sitting on his lap. Detectives initially said the Ontario man may have molested more than 100 students.
Rogelio Alvino Cardenas, 60 - Sheriff's deputies believe Cardenas, a 17-year teacher at Del Rey Elementary School in Victorville, may have molested at least 15 female students. He faces charges based on the reports of two students. Cardenas was arrested in January and has pleaded not guilty.
Sean Ramiro Lopez, 32 - Lopez used a fabricated science experiment as a ruse to molest three boys and was sentenced in January 2006 to more than 74 years in prison. Lopez was convicted of inviting the Clement Middle School students to take part in a scientific program to help them increase muscle mass and the size of their genitals. Beginning in 2000, the students met Lopez in what they believed was a laboratory, where they would undress, allow Lopez to measure them, watch pornographic movies and masturbate.
Joan Hadden, 33 - A former teacher at Cajon High School in San Bernardino, Hadden was arrested in Las Vegas in May 2002 after she was found in the company of a 15-year-old student with whom she was having a sexual relationship. Hadden was sentenced to two years in state prison on June 20, 2003, on nine counts of various charges, including lewd and lascivious acts with a child and unlawful intercourse with a minor.
Michael Carrol Logan, 35 - Palmdale resident was arrested March 27, 2002, on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student at Granite Hills High School in Apple Valley. Logan, a firefighter and paramedic with the Apple Valley Fire Protection District, taught a fire service class at the school, according to sheriff's officials. Logan was sentenced to three years in state prison March 9, 2005, on charges of oral copulation with a person under 18 years old and unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
- Compiled by Mike Cruz
