Boulder, COLORADO

His fantasy was to have sex with a 12-year-old girl.

June 25, 2007 - Michael Barta, 46, a counselor at Casey Middle School, was arrested in a prostitution sting after a "professional escort" who had serviced him alerted police that he had expressed interest in having sex with a 12-year-old girl.

Police arranged to meet him and arrested him as he arranged to meet an undercover detective for paid sex.

Now comes information that Barta was the subject of news story in November 1994 in the Rocky Mountain News about his kinky online chats. At that time he was a teacher in Golden, Colorado, and after the story, was asked to leave the school. He was allowed to voluntarily resign. He taught a year in Denver schools before he left to get his doctorate. He was then hired as a counselor by the Boulder Valley Schools.

He's on paid leave and the district is debating whether to rehire him next year.

TT - Colorado has a reputation for oddness. An April panel at the High School gave a sex talk so lurid that a parent wasn't allowed to read from a transcript because the school board president thought it was inappropriate to be read aloud at a public forum. Yet attendance at the Sex Forum was mandatory for the high school students. LINK

Then there was Laurence Reed Senterfit who would have gotten parole for his crimes. LINK

The Conifer, Colorado school yearbook featured drugs, alcohol and Minor in Possession citations. LINK