Lubec, MAINE

Thirty days for sexual contact with a 13-year-old boy. It's a good thing we have sex registration laws.

November 21, 2008 - Lubec Consolidated School teacher Tina Mason, 31, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy. She was also given two suspended sentences of 11 months in jail after pleading no contest to charges of assault, sexual abuse of a minor and unlawful sexual touching.

Mason resigned her teaching position at the Lubec school last December after the incident came to light. Lubec school officials had concerns about a possible inappropriate relationship between Mason and one of her students, which proved to be unfounded, but contacted police when their investigation revealed the relationship between Mason and the East Machias boy.

Mason was also ordered to surrender teaching certification and will have to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

Prosecutors say Mason, her husband and their two children, ages 6 and 10, were friends with the victim's family.

Knoxville, TENNESEE

"The court finds that the 71 days served is sufficient 'shock incarceration' to effectively sober the defendant's mind as to the seriousness of the offense," the judge wrote.

Mar 16, 2007 - Erin McLean, 30, a teaching intern last fall at West High School, is not in jail or even being investigated for a sexual relationship with a 18-year-old boy she met while at the school. Now the boy is dead, shot by her husband outside their home last Sunday.

The age of consent in Tennesee is 18 and Sean Powell was 18. The mother of two boys, ages 11 and 7, Erin McClean has reportedly moved in with relatives in Nashville while her husband, Eric, remains in jail.

The funeral for Sean Powell was held on Thursday.

Mar 21 - Erin McClean tried to commit suicide five days later with a drug overdose, Nashville police said. Her family called police, she was taken to a hospital and later released.

Mar 22 - Tabloid journalism: NBC's "Today" show interviewed McClean. General Sessions Judge Bob McGee agreed Wednesday to allow the NBC interview over prosecutors' objections that it could prejudice a jury pool.

TT - It's the kind of journalism we used to associate with the National Enquirer. There's something unseemly about such public displays when one young man is dead, his family is grieving, McClean's two children will likely be removed from the home and lose their father for a long time. Human tragedy as a spectator sport.

Apr 2 - The victims adoptive mother saw "little love" in the teacher-student sex. "how can anyone put love into this situation?" She and her husband adopted Sean when he was age 6. It was his fifth foster home.

"He struggled to overcome his pain from his early childhood," Scarlett Powell wrote. "He had been displaced many times in his short life. We hoped to assist him to feel wanted and loved, which Sean desperately needed, but mostly we wanted to keep him safe and out of harm's way."

INDICTMENT SECOND DEGREE May 10 - Eric McLean was indicted but not the first-degree count prosecutors had sought, according to court documents released Thursday. The second-degree murder count against Eric McLean carries a 25-year maximum sentence, instead of the life term the higher-level charge carries.

McLean, released on $150,000 bond in April, is expected to be arraigned in a couple of weeks and have a trial date set.

TRIAL DATE SET June 20 - A trial date has been scheduled for for January 21, 2008. A judge ruled he will have to pay for his own lawyer. The defense lawyer thinks a divorce is in the near future.

WEIRD TWIST Sept 21 - ABC News is reporting that Erin McLean has gone missing with her two children. Her lawyer thinks she may be heading to California to meet with a friend she met on the Internet.

NEW INDICTMENT Dec 13 - The grand jury has indicted McLean on first-degree murder charges. He had previously faced a second-degree murder.

NOT GUILTY PLEA Dec 14 - McLean was arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty. A motions trial is scheduled for Jan 14. McLean's two kids are with their mother. Where they are, exactly, no one seems to know. The last known location was somewhere in Colorado. A jury trial is scheduled for Sep 3, 2008.

DIVORCE Feb 1, 2008 - A judge granted Erin McLean a divorce and appointed a lawyer to serve as guardian of the children. They do not know where the mother and the children are and will be searching.

TRIAL September 3 - Jurors are being selected in the murder trial.

See our Rant of the Day.

CONVICTED, SENTENCED and RELEASED December 18 - McLean was convicted of of reckless homicide in September and was sentenced to 90 days, which would have freed him on Christmas Eve. Criminal Court Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz signed an order Friday releasing McLean after serving a total of 71 days in jail.

Long Beach, CALIFORNIA

Sentenced to two years in prison and registration as a sex offender for life.

December 8, 2008 - Sentencing has been delayed for John Kinard, 36, who pleaded no contest in November to having sex with two teenage girls. A charter school teacher in Los Angeles, Kinard also taught Spanish at Wilson High School in Long Beach.

Kinard was arrested in August. Both girls were age 15 and were friends or related to his fiancee's family. The plea requires him to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. He faces up to nine years when he is sentenced. He will return to Long Beach Superior Court on April 7 for sentencing.
Full Name: John David Kinard

GUILTY - December 8, 2008 - Kinard pleaded no contest to having sex with the two girls.

SENTENCED - April 22, 2009 - Kinard was sentenced to two years in prison but with credit for one year served. Kinard will have to register as a sex offender for life and must submit to DNA profiling and AIDS testing and pay $10,000 as victim restitution.

West Seneca, NEW YORK

August 12, 2008 - Anthony Harper, 34, a West Seneca East Middle School French teacher, pleaded guilty to a felony-level sodomy charge involving a 13-year-old boy. During the plea proceeding, Harper signed a document terminating him immediately as a West Seneca school teacher. As a part of the plea agreement, misdemeanor sex abuse and child endangerment charges were dropped.
He will be sentenced November 12.

Full Name: Anthony D. Harper

SENTENCED December 5 - Harper was sentenced to two years in prison, followed by seven years of court supervision . He resigned in August after pleading guilty and had to surrender his New York teacher's certificate.

State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski reminded Harper that "The community will be safe from your predatory behavior.” Michalski also reminded him that he will now remain a closely watched sex offender.

Smyrna, TENNESSEE

He came to court hoping for probation for five statutory rape and two assault convictions.


Jan 6, 2007 - A trial date has been set for Kenneth Anderson Jr, 38, Smyrna High biology teacher, on statutory rape charges. Anderson faces 25 charges, including several statutory rape counts, sexual battery of an authority figure and rape by fraud. Trial is scheduled for May 7. Now scheduled for July 9.

DISTRICT INVESTIGATION in 2003 June 30 - The Tenneseean reports that

the Metro school district investigated paternity charges in 2003. Metro's Adult Sex Crimes Unit closed the case a month later with no charges filed. DNA tests concluded Anderson was not the father, and he was allowed to finish out the school year. Metro didn't rehire him, and Anderson moved on to Williamson and then Rutherford County.

School officials there launched their own investigation after a parent complained about racy text messages sent to their daughter. Rutherford fired him almost a month later and reported the incident to the state.

In February 2006, Metro police arrested Anderson on multiple counts of statutory rape involving two children. One was a student at Smyrna High School and one was not.

TRIAL DATE RESCHEDULED Jan 14, 2008 - Jury selection began in trial. THEN, Anderson's trial has been postponed until July 21. [No explanation.] He has been charged with three counts of rape, 13 counts of statutory rape and nine counts of sexual battery by an authority figure for having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.

PREVIOUS CONVICTION Anderson was convicted on statutory rape charges last year for having a sexual relationship with a different minor. The 13-year-old Antioch girl’s father found them in bed together. She was not a student.
See District Attorney General Case Disposition 2006-C-2268, September 27, 2007

SENTENCED (on the conviction of rape of 13-year-old - newspaper says she was 14. D.A. office press release above says 13.)
Jan 31, 2008 - The Tennessean, says that Anderson came to court hoping to be placed on probation for his five statutory rape and two assault convictions. They lament: two years of good behavior wasn't enough. (He's been wearing an electronic ankle monitor for two years and has not violated the corresponding restrictions, which allow him to go only to work, church and the grocery store, they write.)

Davidson County Criminal Court Judge Monte Watkins gave Anderson two years for each rape count and 11 months and 29 days for the assault charges, but the judge has not decided whether Anderson will have to serve the sentences consecutively or concurrently.

The judge ordered Anderson to undergo a psychosexual evaluation before administering the terms of the sentence. Watkins will make a decision April 2.

Anderson is awaiting trial in July on charges of sexual battery involving a relationship he is accused of having with a 16-year-old girl.

SENTENCED Dec 5 - Anderson was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Anderson was already serving time for statutory rape and simple assault.

Ada, OKLAHOMA

Dallen will be 70 years old before he is eligible for parole.

October 22, 2008 - Jeff Dallen, 48, a Homer Elementary School music teacher was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child molestation.

Police said Dallen has been a teacher at Stonewall and Roff schools in the past. Dallen’s wife, Vicki, is the lower elementary principal at Homer.Police expect charges to be filed in Pontotoc County District Court Wednesday.

An update to the story added this:

According to a court affidavit filed by Detective Kathi Johnston, the victim was taken to the Ada CARE Cottage after telling a relative about an alleged molestation. The victim told officials the incidents would happen at the school when the other students were watching a movie in the music room.

During an interview with Dallen, he admitted to “touching” the victim on several instances, according to the affidavit.“During the interview, Dallen stated there were two other victims that he had molested at the school,” Johnston said in the affidavit.

October 23 - Letter to parents at the district web site.
Thoughtful and considerate and a response you would want from your school.

October 24 - Police have confirmed the number of children accusing an elementary teacher of molestations has risen to seven or eight.

GUILTY PLEA & SENTENCING November 3 - Dallen pleaded guilty to 11 counts of lewd molestation. Officials said there are eight victims in the case. All are under the age of 12.Dallen waived all rights to a trial by jury and his right to appeal. Some of the victims’ family members wept as Dallen entered his pleas.

Judge Thomas Landrith sentenced Dallen to 50 years incarceration with 25 to be served in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. All other time will be suspended. Dallen will be 70 years old before he is eligible for parole.

Litchfield, ILLINOIS

October 31, 2008 - Michael J. Wetzell, 31, dean of students at Litchfield High School, was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty Thursday to the aggravated battery of a female student.

He was charged in March with sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl at Litchfield High School. Police in Montgomery County say Wetzell also provided that girl with alcohol.

FROM A MARCH STORY: Rumors about a relationship between the girl and Wetzell surfaced in January. School officials investigated but found no evidence of an inappropriate relationship, and Wetzell denied the accusations. In February he resigned, effective at the end of the school year, because his family wanted to move back to Rock Falls. They moved back, while Wetzell stayed behind to finish out the year. Two concerned students called school officials and the police March 17.

Montgomery County State's Attorney Chris Matoush said Thursday that Wetzell must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence, as well as a parole period after he is released ranging from three years to natural life. He also must register as a convicted sex offender.

Dexter, KANSAS

October 31, 2008 - Richard Berkley, 42, a teacher at Dexter High School, was arrested October 19 and charged for engaging in inappropriate sexual relations with a female student at the school. One felony charge of unlawful sexual relations has been filed against Berkley with the district court in Winfield.

An investigation began during the 2007-2008 school year. He was suspended with pay in April. He resigned later that same month.

The formal criminal complaint alleges that between Jan. 1, 2007 and May 9, 2008, Berkley engaged in lewd fondling or touching with the girl, who would have been 16 or 17 at the time.
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LEGAL NOTE: (From the story.) Berkley faces the charge - even though the age of consent in Kansas is 16 - because he held a position of authority over the alleged victim. The law is in place, officials said, to protect young people from being victimized by teachers, social service workers or others who might work closely with kids.
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The 10/31 story source is NewsCow.net, an Internet only news site.

November 3 - Berkley was arrested Oct. 19 after a months-long investigation by the Cowley County Sheriff's Department and charged in the Cowley County District Court. Cowley County Attorney Chris Smith Smith said the duration of the case was due to the fact that a lot of people had information that finally led to the charges' being filed.

Berkley is scheduled to appear in front of the Cowley County District Court at 9 a.m. Nov. 10.

Ocean City, NEW JERSEY

“When we reach a point in society when we as parents can no longer safely and reliably entrust our children to the care of those professionally responsible, we are bankrupt as a culture,” the judge said. “How does it stop? When does it stop?”

May 15, 2008 - Robert Dilullo, 24, a substitute at Ocean City High School, was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and providing alcohol to a minor in connection with a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.

It is alleged that he had sex with a high school student beginning when she was 16. The relationship reportedly began in December 2006. Police said Dilullo raped the girl in August 2007, when he invited her to his Seaville home in Upper Township. Police said he gave her alcohol and raped her while she was inebriated and unconscious.

Dilullo now works as a restaurant cook. A counselor who learned of the incidents, earlier this month, reported them to the Division of Youth and Family Services, which reported them to the Cape May Co. Prosecutors Office.

Dilullo did not teach in the district this year, whether that was his choice or the district's choice. Police said they want to know if the accused teacher had sex with any other students.

GUILTY PLEA August 16 - Dilullo pleaded guilty to one count of endangering the welfare of a child in a nonsexual manner and agreed to never again seek employment as a teacher. The plea agreement also includes five years of probation along with 364 days in the Cape May County Jail. He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 31.

SENTENCED October 31 - Superior Court Judge Raymond Batten sentenced to a year in jail for providing alcohol to a student. Dilullo will have to serve 77 of the 364 days before he is eligible for parole. He will not be allowed to teach again or serve in public office.

Assistant Prosecutor Matthew D. Weintraub repeated the allegation Friday that DiLullo had oral sex with the student at his Upper Township home. In a victim-impact statement, the girl, not identified in court, said DiLullo should have to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law.

Judge Raymond Batten said cases in which authority figures have inappropriate relationships with minors are becoming all too prevalent in Cape May County. He said he sentenced DiLullo to the year term to deter other would-be criminals.

“When we reach a point in society when we as parents can no longer safely and reliably entrust our children to the care of those professionally responsible, we are bankrupt as a culture,” he said. “How does it stop? When does it stop?”

Denton, MARYLAND

MOTHER CHASES DOWN TEACHER IN HER CAR.

Feb 1, 2008 - Lee Holmes, Jr., 25, an eighth-grade math teacher at Lockerman Middle School, was arrested on child sex abuse charge for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old female student.
Full Name: Alexander Holmes, Jr.

Police say Holmes became a suspect Tuesday night after the girl was dropped off at her home in Marydel after leaving without permission. Her mother chased the driver at high speed, until the driver's car crashed in Queen Anne's County. The mother recognized Holmes as the driver of the wrecked car.

Holmes was treated for his injuries at Shock Trauma in Baltimore and was arrested Wednesday at his mother's residence in Prince George's County.

WMTD : Holmes is facing several charges, including sex abuse of a minor and possession of child porn.

Police are asking anyone who might have had negative contact with Holmes to contact the Sheriff's department at 410-479-2515.

May 11 - Pre-trial conferenced scheduled for May 20. Criminal trial scheduled Aug 11. cts

GUILTY PLEA October 15 - Holmes pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual offense for having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl. Under his plea agreement, he will serve no more than nine years in prison. Sentencing was set for Oct. 30.

SENTENCED October 31 - Holmes was sentenced to 9 years in prison.

Flagstaff, ARIZONA

A registered sex offender for life.

October 30, 2008 - Tawni Wimberley, 30, a Flagstaff High School and technology teacher, was sentenced to six months - suspended. She will be on supervised probation for three years. She will have to REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER for the rest of her life.

In September, Wimberley pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual conduct with a minor. She was on a leave of absence when she had improper relationships with 16-year-old and 17-year-old boys in 2007. Police alleged that Wimberley had consensual sexual relationships with ``several'' male students, most of them legal adults.
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This AP story says nothing about sex offender registration.

Spring Grove, ILLINOIS

Elementary school principal found in motel with two underage girls and they weren't watching "Alvin and the Chipmunks."

April 8, 2008 - Daniel Markofski, 47, the principal of Spring Grove Elementary School, was arrested and charged with two counts of exposing a child to harmful material and one count of sexual intercourse with a child age 16 or older. Both girls were from Milwaukee.

Markofski was arrested after an officer on patrol found him partially clothed in a Glendale motel with two girls, ages 15 and 16, on Saturday. The police officer noticed the smell of pot coming from a room at the Super 8 Motel on Port Washington Road. The girls were partially nude. Police say Markofski had alcohol and marijuana.

According to a criminal complaint, Markofski admitted that he met the 16-year-old girl in an online chat room. He told authorities that he and the girl had talked on the phone several times and that he had taken her to the motel twice. The 15-year-old was a friend of the other girl. She accompanied them to the beach and then the motel room. said they talked about watching a movie. She asked to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks, but says Markofski ordered a pornographic movie instead. According to the 15-year-old, shortly after the movie started, Markofski had sexual contact with the 16-year-old and and took sexually explicit pictures of the 16-year-old with his cell phone.

He has been suspended with pay. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 18.
Full Name: David Scott Markofski

EMPLOYMENT He is licensed to teach in Wisconsin. According to state records, he taught at North Lake Elementary in Boulder Junction from 1994 to 1997. He was a teacher then assistant principal at Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary School from 1997 to 2005. He was principal of both Blackhawk and Tower Rock elementary schools, which are in the Sauk Prairie School district, from 2005 to 2006. (From Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

NO SHOW April 9 - In 2005, Markofski abruptly resigned as a school principal. He just didn't show up for work. Craig Bender, the superintendent of the Sauk Prairie School District in Sauk City, Wis. said that one day Markofski just disappeared. “We couldn’t track him down.” he said.

He told the school district that he was going through a divorce and struggling with personal issues when the superintendent contacted him shortly after he stopped showing up to work. Markofski’s divorce was finalized in January 2006.

SCHOOL BOARD VOTES April 15 - – District 2 board members voted unanimously Tuesday to fire Spring Grove Principal Dan Markofski. That came despite Markofski tendering a letter of resignation to the district earlier Tuesday.“They wanted to have on public record that they chose to dismiss him,” Superintendent Dan Oest said.

The school board admitted that they did not call his previous employer and promises to to check with all previous employers.

NOT GUILTY PLEA April 18 - Markofski waived a preliminary hearing and pleaded not guilty.

TRIAL DATE SCHEDULED for August 6 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. (Found in this story on drug testing.)

SENTENCED October 30 - Marfofski pleaded guilty in September to having sex with a child 16 or older and to two counts of exposing a child to harmful material. This week he was sentenced to one year in prison and 18 months of extended supervision. Markofski will also have to REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER.
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ONLINE RESOURCE: You can find teacher license revocations in the minutes of the Illinois State Teacher Certification Board. No reasons are given, however, for the disciplinary action. (You cannot assume that it was for criminal acivity as many states revoke licenses for failure to pay back funds advanced for professional training.)

Sample Of those listed in these minutes, we have entries for Church, Pappas and Williams. All three were sentenced for sexual misconduct with students.

Springfield, MISSOURI

May 4, 2007 - Jeremy Anderson, a Glendale High School science teacher, may lose his teaching license. In February, he was seen on a security camera pushing a 15-year-old female student against a wall, rubbing her face and hugging her . The student reportedly tried to get away by walking across the hall, and he followed, putting his arm around her.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, told the newspaper that DESE had opened an investigative file on Anderson. State statutes allow for revocation of a teaching license for a number of reasons, including if a teacher is found guilty of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude. Though Anderson is not charged with a felony, lawyers for the state attorney general's office would decide if Anderson's actions amount to moral turpitude, said Rosenkoetter.
Full Name: Jeremy Warren Anderson AKA Jeremy W. Anderson

RESIGNED June 20 - Anderson resigned. A court date is scheduled for July 5.

SENTENCED October 30 - Anderson was sentenced to 45 days in jail and a $1000 fine for a “common assault” of a 15-year-old student. The victim took the stand at the August 29 trial.
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ONLINE: There are NO teacher disciplinary actions online at the Missouri Department of Education. The Missouri Board of Education meeting minutes are not online either.

You can, however, search at the Missouri Department of Revenue for a business (by county, city, name or ID tax number) to see if they have had their sales tax license revoked for failure to remit sales tax.

At the Missouri Division of Professional Registration, you can look for licensee information for Accountants, Architects, Dentists, Doctors, Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists and Pharmacists and other professions. At the Missouri Board of Healing Arts you can browse through license suspensions. Their monthly newsletters contains information on license actions.

However, you can not find any information on disciplinary actions that may have been taken against a person who is in daily contact with your child. It's a lack of transparency that no parent should tolerate.

Dublin, OHIO

October 23, 2008 - Two former Dublin Coffman High School boys lacrosse coaches were sentenced to prison in Tennessee for assaulting a lacrosse player in 2006 while the team was on a trip to Memphis, Tennessee.

The two former coaches pleaded guilty to the assault charges in August as part of a deal that dropped felony rape charges against both of them. The school district fired both of them in the spring 2006.

Dustin Pentz, 28, a volunteer lacrosse coach was sentenced Wednesday, Oct. 22 to 30 days in prison, with the remainder of his 11-month, 29-day sentence to be served on probation.

Another volunteer coach, Greg Simpson, 26, was sentenced to 15 days in prison and to serve the remainder of his six-month sentence on probation. Simpson will have to turn himself in Dec. 1st.

The victim, now a 21-year-old Ohio University student, testified that Simpson, 29, held him down on a team bus while Pentz, 28, inserted gloved fingers into his rectum during a trip to Memphis in March 2006.

The victim said it was a traumatic sexual assault. The former coaches characterized it as a case of horseplay, what they called "goosing." Pentz said he never put his hand inside the boy's shorts, and Simpson denied taking part at all.

The victim has filed a civil case against the team coaches and Dublin school district. That case is pending in federal court.

Greg Simpson's father, Frank Simpson, was convicted of witness intimidation in February 2007 and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
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OTHER: You can find pictures of the two coaches here.
Google map of Dublin, Ohio from GreatSchools.net
The school rates a 10 (with 10 being the highest) at GreatSchools.net

Fayetteville, GEORGIA

Sentenced to 20 years, with 15 to serve.

April 15, 2008 - Craig Bowen, 57, was arrested Saturday and faces charges of child molestation, incest and sexual battery for having “sexual contact with a female relative who is under the age of 16 between the years of 2000 and 2003," according to a police report.

The police investigation is on-going and other charges may be pending. He was Rising Starr Middle School social studies teacher since 1996. Bowen resigned.
Full Name: Craig Steven Bowen

April 15 - The Citizen reported that Bowen served on the Senoia Planning Commission during the latter part of 2001 and 2002. He also ran against Billy Horne in the race for Rep. Lynn Westmoreland’s vacated Georgia House seat in 2004. [TT - election results.]

Coweta County Investigator Casey Mullis asked that anyone with further information about Bowen contact him at 770-253-1502.

GUILTY VERDICT & SENTENCING October 28 - Bowen was found guilty of four counts of child molestation. He was sentenced to 20 years with 15 to serve in prison for each count of child molestation -- all of which will run concurrently.

Bowen sexually fondled the juvenile relative in Coweta County on several occasions beginning when the victim was around 5 or 6 years old and ending when she was 9 or 10. He was a foster parent until his arrest.

Bowen was offerred 20 years with 12 to serve. The judge said Bowen got a harsher penalty because he put the victim through a trial. The jury deliberated the case from approximately 2:50 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. before finding Bowen guilty on all counts.

Keller, TEXAS

August 25, 2007 - Aaron Pompa, 25, assistant band director at Keller High School, was arrested and is expected to be charged with having a sexual relationship with a 16-yar-old female student.

The girl confessed to her parents and they contacted police. Pompa is expected to be charged in the next few days with having an improper relationship between an educator and a student. It has been a second degree felony in Texas since 2003.

Pompa resigned August 13, just days before his arrest on August 17. Pompa is married.
Full Name: Aaron Daniel Pompa

August 29 - Police seized several items from Pompa's home, according to according to arrest and search warrant affidavits that were released. According to the affidavits, authorities seized green sofa cushions and a box containing six condoms from Pompa's home Aug. 22.

SENTENCED (Sorta) October 28, 2008 - Pompa pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child under 17 years old October 20 in Criminal District Court No. 2 in Fort Worth. He was sentenced today to 10 years of probation.

Pompa, who was married at the time, was arrested Aug. 17, 2007.
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TT - Sexual assault of a child under 17 years old is a felony. The conviction will show up on any background check done on him for the rest of his life. He will never teach again in any classroom in any state. And he will have to admit the conviction on any employment application for any job and try to explain that to an employer.

Palos Verdes, CALIFORNIA

Sixty days in the local jail. Registration as a sex offender for life.

August 17, 2008 - Barry Sacks, 49, a Peninsula High School walk-on coach who also runs youth athletic camps , was arrested on July 16, accused of nine misdemeanor counts of child molestation. The charges fuel "mixed emotions.

Several former female athletes who Sacks has coached or worked with declined to be interviewed for this article, but said in e-mails that he is kind, warm and incapable of such conduct.

Some of them have lashed out at the alleged victims, accusing them of trying to oust Sacks, and at the Daily Breeze, for ruining his life by publishing a story about his court case.

The alleged acts involved nine girls, who were all 15 and 16 years old and involve "inappropriate touching" of a sexual nature.

Sacks was fired from his coaching job in June. He has also coached at Bishop Montgomery and Palos Verdes high schools. He is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 27 in Torrance Superior Court.
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ONLINE RESOURCE: Daily Breeze reporter Denise Nix maintains a blog to track South Bay crimes in the courts called Court Tracker. It's the kind of responsible public service that all newspapers should provide.
Reader Reaction to the Sacks story and how Nix found out about the charges.
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GUILTY PLEA & SENTENCING October 28 - Sacks pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of child molestation and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. Sacks can serve the time in a city jail instead of a county facility, and will likely do so. He will be on probation five years.

He will undergo 52 weeks of sex offender counseling, In exchange for his plea, seven other counts against Sacks were dismissed by prosecutors. Sacks will also have to REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

Elkhart, INIDIANA

Time to update those old 1980s yearbooks.

March 12, 2008 -
Thomas Thornburg, 52, was arrested last month in Springfield, Illinois, for trying to solicit sex from a 12-year-old boy. The boy turned out to be a federal agent. He is charged with indecent solicitation of a child under the age of 13.

Thornburg was arrested for allegedly molesting at least two teens while teaching at Woodland Elementary School near Elkhart, Ind., in the 1980s. He was convicted in 1986 and was sentenced to five years in prison for child molestation. The allegations involved boys who were 13 and 14 years old. (He served 3 and a half years.)

At the time of his arrest last month, Thornburg worked as a manager of the McDonald’s in Springfield.

TT-Working at a McDonalds is a good job if you want to be around teenage boys.

SENTENCED October 28 - Thornburg was sentenced to 19 1/2 years in federal prison for solicitation and possession of child pornography.

Kokomo, INDIANA

Hindson was not an educator but a swim coach at a local school where he had a hidden camera in the girls' dressing room for ten years.

Feb 7, 2008 - When a police detective viewed videos taken from a computer the swim coach sold through eBay in 2006 to a buyer in Gastonia, N.C., the detecive found the source of the files.

"Upon viewing the videos, Det. Banush went to the girls swimming locker room at Kokomo High School's Memorial Gym and determined that the video discovered by [the computer purchaser] on her computer was in fact produced in that locker room in Memorial Gym," the search warrant affidavit states.

A search warrant was served Tuesday on the coach's residence. They seized 65 items. On Wednesday, school officials met with parents of both female and male students and confirmed an investigation was taking place, and that some children may have been taped undressing in the female locker room.

Brian D. Hindson, 40, was arrested today and is now in federal custody. An examination of an external hard drive of a computer in his home obtained during the search contained eight videos of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The complaint does not allege that Hindson produced the videos.

Hindson also admitted to hiding video cameras in the locker rooms at Kokomo High School and Westfield High School.

The buyer of the computer told the FBI about finding the files in 2006 when she and her son turned on the computer. The FBI contacted the North Carolina detective on Tuesday.

This investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about the case should call the Kokomo Police Department at (765) 456-7248.

U.S. Department of Justice Press Release (Dated Feb 7, 2008)
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TT - Hindson has a blog at http://indianaswim.blogspot.com/ The description of which reads:

DISCLAIMER: Personal opinions by Coach Brian D. Hindson, you don't like what i write, don't read it, simply change the channel. No point in calling or emailing anyone about what I write, as now I am the renegade. FREEDOM!!!

Yeah.

Feb 8 - Hindson did not work for the school. He rented space from the school.

SENTENCED October 17 - Hindson was was sentenced today in Indianapolis to 400 months in prison on 11 counts of production of child pornography, four counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. He was ordered to serve a LIFETIME PERIOD OF SUPERVISED RELEASE.

Hindson pleaded guilty July 23, 2008.
The statement of facts established that during an approximately 10-year period, Hindson hid video cameras in locker rooms at Kokomo High School and Memorial Gym, and then secretly videotaped female teenage swimmers from his teams while they undressed.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice Press Release (dated October 17, 2008)

Baton Rouge, LOUISIANA

Almost a year later, two of the three teachers have been sentenced.

ARRESTED Nov 15, 2007 - Amanda Elizabeth Key, 29, is the third teacher at the Louisiana School for the Deaf arrested in a week for improper contact with a 16-year-old female student. Key is accused of maintaining an improper relationship with the girl.

Earlier, Christopher Joseph Watson, 38, and Nathan Daniel Boyes, 26, were both arrested and each was charged with a count of indecent behavior with a juvenile.

Watson was a teacher at the School for the Deaf last year. Boyes is a physical education teacher at the school Both are accused of sending the girl sexually explicit e-mails and text messages.

WATSON SENTENCED - TEACHER
October 22, 2008 - Christopher Watson, 39, admitted last month to sending sexually explicit messages and images to a teenage Louisiana School for the Deaf student while teaching there. He was sentenced on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. He will be on active supervised probation for five years. He will have to REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER.

Watson and Veronie were among five people arrested between November and April on sex-related charges involving students at the school on Brightside Lane. Three of those arrested were current or former teachers at the school.

Veronie's case will go to trial. The case against Boyle is pending.

KAY SENTENCED - TEACHER
October 4 - In May, Amanda Key pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. She was given a suspended two-year prison term and supervised probation for five years. She must REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER.

SCHOOL REOPENS November 1 - The Louisiana School for the Deaf will reopen Wednesday, a month after shutting down because of alleged sex incidents among students and staff, Department of Education officials said Friday.

State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek closed the school Oct. 7 after a sex attack by an unsupervised student with a history of bad behavior.