Busy Month

Catholic school principal arrested for outdoor sex.
MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK
July 16, 2008 - Gabriel De Jesus, 41, principal of Mount Vernon's Sacred Heart School for the Arts, was arrested, charged with public lewdness, trespassing and disorderly conduct, for having sex on July 13 with two men outside an empty house in Greenburgh. Police are still searching for a man they say fled naked from the outdoor group sex scene.

Sacred Heart School for the Arts is an Catholic elementary school.

Assistant principal charged with theft of class photo sales money
LUBBOCK, TEXAS
July 17, 2008 - Cloris A. Tiffin, 53, assistant principal at Wolffarth Elementary School, who resigned in the spring was arrested June 12 for stealing money from a locked filing cabinet on campus. In April, a surveillance camera filmed Tiffin entering a classroom where cash from candy and class photos sales were kept in a locked cabinet.An aide reported $120 missing a few hours later. Five days later, school police say a camera recorded Tiffin attempting to open that filing cabinet, but no money was taken.

Tiffin was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of theft by a public servant.

L.A. high school principal posed as girl
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
July 4, 2008 - Randolph Cornfield, 60, principal of Del Rey Continuation School, was arrested in June when investigators found images of child pornography on his home computer. Police were tipped off by man who reported meeting a 12-year-old girl in an online chat room who made "very crude, sexually graphic statements," said Deputy Dist. Atty. Marc Beaart of the district attorney's High Technology Crimes Division. Police were worried that there might be a 12-year-old out there that was being sexualized and possibly molested, and trolling for adult male partners. They found Cornfield.

Cornfield has been charged with two counts of possession of child pornography.

State auditor's investigation leads to theft charges
WASHINGTON, IOWA
July 21, 2008 - Washington Junior High School Principal Monte Davis, 43, pleaded guilty in to second-degree theft and four counts of felonious misconduct in office, all Class D felonies. He was ordered to repay $16,000 in restitution. He received concurrent five-year prison terms for each charge, both suspended, and three years of probation. Oh, and, 100 hours of community service.

Murder trial delayed
CHESAPEAKE, VIRGINIA
July 25, 2008
Arrested in February for the murder of his wife, assistant principal at Great Bridge High School Wesley Earnest, 38, is scheduled for trial on Monday. However, no pre-trial motions have been entered or heard. So the trial will not start as planned. Entry for Earnest.