Fort Stockton, TEXAS

We have absolutely no idea why this story was in a New Zealand paper. But we loved the headline:
"Disgraced Texas teacher sent students porn"

October 28, 2008 - Jaime Steen, 26, was arrested and charged with selling, distributing or displaying harmful material to a minor, a misdemeanour punishable by 180 days to a year in jail.

The investigation began after school officials started looking into allegations that Steen had recently purchased beer for five teenage boys, Fort Stockton police Lt. Louis Hernandez said. Police investigators found she had been sending adult pornographic pictures in the form of jokes as text messages, he said.
Full Name: Jaime Katheryn Steen

Steen was a first-year agriculture teacher at Fort Stockton High School. She resigned.
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Comment at the story in a San Angelo, TX newspaper:

Quite a number of persons who are willing to risk their careers and education for the sake of wanting to keep "being young" and seen as "cool". Personality disorders and issues need to be addressed for persons who go into education or any other field that work with children in order to avoid problems/incidences that can result in some serious consequences.

Only foreign journalists would label her "disgraced." Our journalists have no acquaintance with the word.