Old Bridge, NEW JERSEY

SENTENCED  to five years probation. 

December 5, 2008 - Lisa Glide, 35, a drama teacher at Old Bridge High School in New Jersey, was arrested on charges that she has been having sex with one of her male students.

Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan says the teacher faces second-degree charges of sexual assault and child endangerment. The prosecutor's office has been investigating Glide since November 25th after they received tips regarding the sexual relationship. The student graduated in June.

Glide was released on $100,000 bail on December 5th. She is being represented by Robert Wills of Princeton, a contract attorney with the state teachers union.

Anyone with information related to the investigation are urged to contact Investigator Michael Daniewicz of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit at 732-745-3600 or detective Michael Machen of the Old Bridge Police Department at 732-721-5600, Ext. 3210 anytime.

GUILTY PLEA June 2, 2009 - Lisa Glide pleaded guilty to fourth degree endangering the welfare of a child.

[She] agreed to give up her teaching certificate and not reapply for a teaching certificate in any public school New Jersey.

The agreement with the state also calls for Glide to be placed on up to five years of probation and receive mental health counseling as required by her probation officer. During her probation, she can have only supervised contact with males under the age of 18.

In return for the guilty plea, the state agreed to drop a second-degree sexual assault charge and reduce the degree of the endangering charge from third to fourth.

SENTENCED Aug 10, 2009 - Glide was sentenced to five years probation despite a request by the prosecution for a sentence of 364 days. "Glide told the judge if she was in better mental shape, "it never would have happened" and said she "shouldn't have even been teaching at the time."

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.

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.

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.

Eustis, FLORIDA

"Desperate Teachers of Florida," Episode #458

October 18, 2008 - Eustis High School English teacher Laura Pace, 38, was arrested, charged with five counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. For sexual activity with two male students.

The Lake County Sheriff's Office began investigating after the Lake County School Board received an e-mail detailing sexual misconduct between her and the two male students. One was an ongoing relationship then an encounter with the second. The papers say she sent images of her breasts and buttocks to one teen via cell phone.

One teen provided investigators with a letter handwritten on the fronts and backs of eight pages that Pace left in his mailbox, in which she apologizes for her sexual encounter with the second teen and tried to explain her drug use.The second teen told investigators he had one encounter with Pace at her home, where they also smoked marijuana and she offered him Adderall, an amphetamine. Both boys were 16 at the time and both have transferred to another school.

Pace is married.

South Daytona, CALIFORNIA

"Desperate Teachers of Florida," Episode #459

October 23, 2008 - Cynthia Horvath, 45, a teacher at Warner Christian Academy, was arrested, accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student between June and September. She is being charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor.

After she was arrested by Port Orange police on Wednesday morning and taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach, the Daytona Beach police filed an identical charge against her. Investigators think the two carried on their relationship at hotels in both cities.

Faced with termination, Horvath, an English teacher and cheer coach, resigned from Warner Christian Academy on Oct. 12, a day before a school official contacted South Daytona police about allegations she had a four-month sexual relationship with the student, according to a police report.

The school has not decided whether the boy will be allowed to return to school.
Horvath is married with four children.
(Photo Port Orange Police)

Monmouth Junction, NEW JERSEY

"It's fairly typical that teachers have been receiving this type of arrangement," Bevacqua said.

April 29, 2008 - Daniel Kerekes, 37, a South Brunswick High School gym teacher was arrested Saturday on charges that he was having sex with a female student. He was charged with second-degree sexual assault.

Kerekes has also served as the boys lacrosse coach at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South.
Full Name: Daniel W. Kerekes

Officials ask that anyone with information contact Detective James Ryan of the South Brunswick Police Department at 732-329-4646, or Investigator Raj Chopra of the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office Sex Crimes Unit at 732-745-3600.
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Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Press Release (dated April 28, 2008)

Information received by the principal at South Brunswick High School led the principal to contact the South Brunswick Police Department on Friday, April 25, 2008. As a result, a joint investigation commenced involving the South Brunswick Township Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit.

The investigation established that in the fall of 2007, Kerekes began engaging in a sexual relationship with a female student of South Brunswick High School.

May 1 - Packetonline reports on the school district responsiveness to the situation.

The investigation into the incident began on Friday, when SBHS Principal Tim Matheney contacted the South Brunswick Police Department.

”The staff became aware of a circumstance that was not of a sexual nature, but just didn’t sound right, and they realized it required further investigation,” Dr. McCartney said. “As soon as any idea of inappropriate behavior came to us the police were contacted and an investigation went forward.”

GUILTY PLEA July 31 - Kerekes pleaded guilty in Superior Court in New Brunswick Tuesday to endangering the welfare of a minor. During the plea hearing before Judge Frederick DeVesa, Kerekes admitted to having sexual relations with the 16-year-old girl at his home and at the school. Under the plea agreement, he will surrender his teaching certificate and will face a maximum three-year prison term when he is sentenced Oct. 17. He will not, however, be placed on the sex offender registry.

SENTENCED Oct 23 - Kerekes was sentenced to three years in prison. He was remanded into state custody following his sentencing by Superior Court Judge Frank DeVesa in New Brunswick on Oct. 17.

Mr. Kerekes will be able to apply for an early release into the county’s Intensive Supervision Program after he has served 60 days in prison and will not have to register himself on the sex offender registry, according to Assistant Prosecutor Christie Bevacqua.

Kerekes will have his teaching license permanently revoked.

From The Sentinel (Oct 23) :

"He pled to second-degree endangering for abuse involving a 16-year-old while he was basically in a supervisory position," Assistant County Prosecutor Christie Bevacqua said. State Superior Court Judge Frederick DeVesa sentenced Kerekes, a South River resident, to three years in state prison Friday. Bevacqua said the judge received a letter from the girl requesting that he not send Kerekes to prison.

The intensive supervisory program that would release him on parole after three to nine months in custody.

This punishment fits within an acceptable range for such cases, Bevacqua said.

"It's fairly typical that teachers have been receiving this type of arrangement," Bevacqua said.

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TT - The question is, Why are teachers receiving preferential treatment?

Tampa, FLORIDA

October 24, 2007 - Christina Butler, 33, a special education teacher at Middleton High School, was arrested and charged with having sex with a ninth grade student.

Butler faces charges of lewd and lascivious battery after detectives say she had sex with a 15-year-old boy who is reportedly one of her students.

She was arrested after police officers stopped teenagers in a car belonging to the teacher.

According to Tampa Police, they pulled over a Jeep Cherokee on 22nd Street after it was spotted driving erratically. Officers say the Jeep was occupied by a group of six teenage boys.

Once officers stopped the vehicle, they determined it belonged to Butler. The driver stated that he did not have a license and his friend Christina let him use the Jeep.

Butler was called to the scene to pick up her vehicle.

While waiting for Butler to arrive, officers spoke with one of the kids, who said the driver was in a relationship with the teacher.

When asked what type of relationship, police say the boy just smiled and said, "I don't ask what they do, they are just good friends," and smiled again.

The officers became suspicious of the possible relationship. According to police, when Christina Butler arrived, she first stated her relationship with the victim was platonic, but then admitted to having a sexual relationship with the student.

Butler has been suspended with pay.

Charge Report from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Oct 26 - The school was notified TWICE about Butler's inappropriate relationship with the boy, but the school dismissed the girl's reports as "rumor" and suspended her. TT - Link

Oct 31 - Butler has been hospitalized because of "emotional stress, " according to her lawyer.

[Her attorney, Tom] Fox did not discuss the allegations but said there could be problems with statements Butler made to police last week based on her "long history of mental disorders."

GUILTY October 23 - Butler pleaded guilty today in a Tampa courtroom to all of the charges against her. The charges included contributing to the delinquency of a minor and two counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. The boy was borderline mentally retarded. Prosecutors say there was no plea deal in the case and Butler could get nearly 30 years in prison when she is sentenced December 10.

Reminder: When another student came forward to report Butler, the student was ignored and later suffered a school suspension. School officials have since apologized for the suspension.

Wicomico County, MARYLAND

October 17, 2008 - Freddie Prince, 23, a substitute teacher, was sentenced to two years in prison, followed by two-and-a-half years of probation.

He pleaded guilty Thursday to sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl.

In May, a teenage girl contacted the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office and told a deputy she was having sex with Prince, according to court documents. The student also said she was communicating with him on MySpace.

Full Name: Freddie Lee Prince

TT - The location may change if we find out the name of the school where Prince was teaching at the time.

La Mesa, CALIFORNIA

This has got to be the School from Hell.
Fourth time in two years a teacher at Helix Charter High School is accused of sentenced for having sex with a student.

RESIGNED June 20, 2008 - Helix High School teacher Jeff Wenham, 46, has resigned after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student, the same teenage girl that a geography teacher at the school was accused of having sex with, authorities said. That teacher was Garry Wilcox, 41. He was arrested in May.

The girl's father came to the station a week ago to report that his now 18-year-old daughter had been involved with Wenham. The teacher resigned the same day. Police are recommending that misdemeanor child-molestation charges be filed against him. They are forwarding the complaint to the District Attorney's office for review

Wenham, who is married, taught at the school for six years. Wenham had been scheduled to replace a retiring assistant principal.

As a result of the previous incidents, the school said they are contracting with the National Institute of Ethics to "evaluate our needs, develop appropriate training, and participate in obtaining ethical certification." The process is slated to begin in July. [TT - something they announced back in May. Entry We still have the same criticisms and think parents should be involved in developing training in order to educate parents, and, through them, students.]

June 24 - The governing board approved paying the National Institute of Ethics $43,000 to develop training to prevent teacher sexual misconduct.

SENTENCED (Sorta) October 15, 2008 - Wexham was sentenced to 60 days in a work program where he spends his nights in a locked building, followed by three years probation. The judge also ordered Wenham to undergo counseling. He will have to perform 20 days of community service.
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La Mesa Police Dept. Press Release PDF on Wenham. (dated June 20, 2008)
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All links are to TT entries.
Frank Palumbo, 27, assistant band director, victim age 17.
No jail or prison time. No sex registration. Sentenced April 2007.
Sentenced to five years of probation.

Jessica Kahal, 22, music teacher and band director, victim age 17, male.
No jail or prison time. No sex registration. Sentenced Feb 2008.
Sentenced to three years of probation.

Garry Wilcox, 43, geography teacher and coach, victim age 17.
Arrested May 2008. Arraigned June 3. Pleaded guilty in July.
Sentenced to one year in jail and three years probation in August.

Erie, PENNSYLVANIA

Nov 13, 2007 - Erica L. Baker, 24, (also known as Erica L. McEldowney) a student teacher at Strong Vincent High School and a substitute teacher at Pfieffer-Burleigh Elementary School, was arrested on charges that she had sexual contact with a 16-year-old female student.

Baker is accused of three counts of corruption of minors, a first-degree misdemeanor. She was suspended today.

Nov 14 - She pleaded not guilty, according to her attorney.

[lSchool district attorney Richard] Perhacs said intimate encounters between students and teachers are on the rise, even though many of the incidents do not rise to the level of criminal activity. However, many still result in faculty terminations.

"In recent years, these cases have come to light primarily because the culture has changed, and I think people, particularly young people, affected by these types of behaviors, have become a lot more likely to come forward and tell people about them and report them," Perhacs said. "Whether they're being reported more often or occurring more often, I can't say."

Baker was recently divorced. She's been suspended without pay.
News story contains list of teacher misconduct cases.

GUILTY PLEA September 3, 2008 - Baker was pleaded guilty to one count of corruption of a minor in a plea bargain that dropped two additional corruption of a minor counts. She also agreed to give up her teaching license. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 23

SENTENCED October 23 - Baker was sentenced to three months to one year in jail - not prison - to be followed by four years of probation.

Though prosecutors had said they wouldn't oppose probation, Judge John Garhart said jail was warranted because Baker was in a position of authority.

The Erie Times-News reported that both the prosecution and the defense expected probation. But the judge rejected the plea agreement.

"The thing that looms large is the court's responsibility for general deterrence," Garhart said.

He said he wants his sentence of Baker to send a message: "If a teacher gets involved with a student, jail time will be served."Garhart also said incarceration was appropriate because Baker, who was teaching at Strong Vincent High School when she met the victim, was in a position of authority when she had sex with the victim in August and September 2007 at a campground near Presque Isle State Park.

"What she did was with a protected class of person -- a minor," Garhart said.

Baker's family seemed shocked, according to the article. The judge was adamant.

The commonwealth and the defense are entitled to reach any agreement they want," he said. "In the end, the decision is mine."

Baker has surrendered her teaching license.
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ONLINE RESOURCE: The Standards and Practices Commission at the Pennsylvania Department of Education maintains online list of actions taken against teaching certificates.

Troy, OHIO

A very courageous girl.



ARRAIGNED Dec 13, 2007 - James H. Clay, 41, basketball coach at Troy Christian School, pleaded not guilty to one felony count of sexual battery for alleged sexual conduct with a 15-year-old girl.

Clay was a coach at Troy Christian School for about two years before he was fired in February. The firing was unnrelated to the sexual misconduct allegations. Clay was indicted by the Grand Jury.

Clay was charged earlier this year as part of an investigation by the sheriff's department but the charges were dismissed in favor of presenting evidence to a grand jury. The charge is sexual battery because at the time of the alleged conduct, Clay was in a position of trust as a coach.

CONVICTED August 28, 2008 - A Miami County jury that deliberated for around 80 minutes before finding Clay guilty of felony sexual battery.

Jurors reviewed all evidence, particularly a tape of a call the girl made in summer 2007 to Clay, asking him about videotapes she said he made of two sexual encounters. As the girl talked briefly with Clay, sheriff's Detective Mark Slater sat nearby.

"The tape was probably the most damaging," foreman Mark Herkins of West Milton said. Jurors listened to the tape four to five times, he said, adding, "We tried to listen to every word." On the tape, Clay tells the girl the tapes had been destroyed.

After the verdict, she thanked supporters.

OF NOTE: Lawyers challenge jury pool.

On Tuesday, Clay's lawyers challenged the county's jury pool because there were no blacks among the more than 40 people called for possible jury service. The lack of minorities, they argued, took away the right of a jury of his peers for Clay, who is black.

A couple of days after Clay was charged in December, his house burned. The fire was ruled an arson, but no one has been charged. Prosecutors are waiting for a final investigation report from the sheriff's office. Clay will be sentenced October 14.

SENTENCED October 14 - Clay was sentenced to the maximum - five years in prison for sexual conduct with a 15-year-old student. Clay is 41 years old.

Clay cried as he asked Judge Jeffrey Welbaum for mercy for him and his family, saying the past year has been filled with pain for his children, who have been harassed, and his loss of five jobs because of the criminal charge and conviction.

"I just want peace for my family and peace for (the victim's) family," he said.

Judge Welbaum reviewed Clay's criminal record, which he said included 26 convictions mostly between 1988 and 1997, including multiple assaults and driving under suspension.

Clay was classified a Tier III sex offender, requiring him to register his address with the sheriff in the county where he lives for the rest of his life.

Morristown, NEW YORK

April 30, 2008 -
Daniel Frick, 38, a music teacher at Morristown Central School, was arrested yesterday and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a class A misdemeanor for an inappropriate relationship with a female student.

According to St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells, the charges stem from hand-holding, kissing and other inappropriate behavior. The relationship was considered injurious to the mental and moral welfare of the student. The girl was 16.

Frick was previously an instructor at the Salmon River and St. Lawrence Central School districts. He has been a teacher at Morristown for a year and a half. Frick has been suspended with pay.
Full Name: Daniel G. Frick

GUILTY PLEA August 1 - Frick pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor child-endangerment charge July 17th in Morristown Village Court. The investigation revealed Mr. Frick and the girl had sex at the school several times after her 17th birthday, which isn't a crime, investigators said.

Morristown Superintendent Beverly L. Ouderkirk said Thursday that Mr. Frick's employment ends Wednesday. Frick will be sentenced October 2nd.

SENTENCED (Sorta) October 3 - Frick was sentenced 60 days in the St. Lawrence County Jail and three years probation on a guilty plea to a charge of child endangerment. The time is to be served on the weekends.

Lexington, NEBRASKA

While on the run, she shut off her cell phone because her daughter, whom she had left behind, was repeatedly calling her. Now that she's sentenced, the question should be: Should she ever have custody of that girl again?

Oct 31, 2007 - Police are searching for Kelsey Peterson, 25, a sixth-grade teacher and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School, who is wanted for kidnapping, child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She is on the run with a 13-year-old male student.

Court documents showed authorities had recovered several e-mails and letters in which the two professed their affection for one another.

In letters, the boy called Peterson his "Baby Gurl," and said their relationship was "just not about the sex but that it was pretty good," according to court documents.

Court documents say Peterson's school-issued laptop contained letters to the student, including one from April saying she loved him, thought he loved her, was "100 percent faithful" to him and would always be faithful.

The boy contacted his parents over the weekend to report they were in Grand Island. Police have tracked them to Denver, then back to Nebraska.

Kelsey has an 8-year-old daughter.

Over a hundred comments at the story.

have no clue what happened here and why there have been all these cases where teachers have these relationships with students that are so young and impressionable. They must be missing something from their lives and choose kids that adore them and think they're just the greatest things since colored crayons. They feed on the attention and admiration and take it to a completely bizarre level. I'm sure she knew what she did was wrong and just didn't give a damn. I guess now, we need to give prospective teachers psych evaluations before they get certified.

Another good comment:

I cannot speak for girls, but if you ask ANY grown man - and if he is honest - he will be able to remember AT LEAST ONE adult teacher or staff member that he fantacized about in middle school. The problem we are having is that some of the adults feel some form of license to respond to these teen crushes, and that has to do with the mixed messages our society sends regarding children and sexuality. As long as we have schools supplying contraceptives to students, school-sponsored "gay" or "gay/straight" groups on middle-school campuses, and other messages to students that being sexually active at age 13 or 12 or even 11 is "normal" in some sense, then these messages will also get to the teachers and at least SOME of them - perhaps only those who have issues of their own - will interpret the messages as license or even as a "calling" to "introduce" children to the world of sex. The boys will not say "no" - given the messages our society trumpets about "sexual conquest" and "scoring", almost every middle-school boy will see this sort of liason as an ultimate "proof of manhood". And there will always be girls who are - if nothing else - simply grateful for an adult's attention - not having the means and maturity to judge it harmful. The sad truth is, we have brought this plague upon ourselves.

TT - When you can't find a Halloween costume for your child that doesn't make them look like hookers, you know there's a problem.

ARRESTED Nov 3 - Peterson and the boy were stopped in Mexico. She was arrested and returned to the U.S. She now faces federal charges. Why the boy's picture and name is listed in the stories across country is unfathomable. It's hard ot find a story in the 858 online that doesn't name him.

Nov 10 - Fascinating story of the Baja California state police department's officer who traced and captured Peterson.

BIRTH CERTIFICATE Nov 15 - The defense attorney suggested that the boy was really older and the sex was legal. However, it's untrue.

The certificate was provided to The Associated Press by the Mexican police officer who found the pair. He says the document is real and recognized by Mexican authorities. He says he got it from the FBI.

The boy is 13.

PASSPORT Jan 16, 2008 - Mexico issued a passport for the boy, "verifying his underage status and wrinkling the defense strategy for the teacher accused of having sex with him," as KETV7 put it. More dumb remarks from her attorney.

TRIAL SCHEDULED April 18 - A federal judge has scheduled the trial to begin July 8.

GUILTY PLEA July 2 - Peterson pleaded guilty to an information charging her with Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct with a Person Under 18 years of Age.

The plea agreement entered into between the United States and Kelsey Peterson calls for the imposition of a sentence of at least 70 months but not more than 87 months. That is the sentencing range recommended by the United States Sentencing Guidelines for her conduct.

Ms. Peterson agreed, as part of the plea agreement, to sentencing enhancements arising from the fact that: (a) the victim was under her custody, care or supervisory control; (b) she unduly influenced the victim to engage in prohibited sexual conduct since she was more than ten years older than the victim; and (c) the offense involved the actual commission of a sex act. As part of the plea agreement Kelsey Peterson agreed with the United States that certain facts would be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in the event her case proceeded to trial. Those stipulated facts are the following:

The news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Omaha lists the acknowledged facts and the laws broken in the States of Nebraska, Colorado and California. [TT - Hopefully, each and every one of those states will press charges.]

SENTENCED September 29 - Peterson was sentenced to six years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. She pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of transporting a child across state lines to have sex in July

North Platte Bulletin (Sept 30 <--- date shown on article) Former Lexington teacher gets six years

Peterson told U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp that she took responsibility for what she did.

“But I am not a sexual predator,” Peterson said at sentencing. “That’s not who I am.”
Camp said she did not consider Peterson a sexual predator but that her maturity “seems to be on the level of a junior high student.”

KETV7 (Sept 29) Teacher Gets 6 Years In Jail For Sex With 13-Year-Old

"I want to move on with my life and make it better," Peterson said Monday in court. "I'm here to take responsibility for what I did."

TT - Hopefully, the boy's parents will sue her and delay her idea of "moving on." And let's hope there will be state charges.

KIDNAPPING CHARGE DROPPED November 3 - Before a hearing in Dawson County, the state kidnapping charge against Peterson was dismissed by the county attorney.

Sun Valley, CALIFORNIA

September 18, 2008 - Ricardo Flores, 32, a teacher at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, was charged Thursday with sexually molesting two female students. The girls are 11 and 12. (Ages from LA Co District Attorney press release.)

Police started investigating Flores after the 12-year-old told a camp counselor at a summer day camp about the abuse she endured at school. Police believe there may be other victims.

Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed 10 counts Lewd Acts upon Child under 14, against Flores Thursday and set bail at $1 million.
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Anyone with additional information regarding this case is asked to contact Detective Moses Castillo, Juvenile Division, at (213) 485-6550.

After hours or on weekends, calls may be directed to a 24-hour, toll-free number at 1-877-LAWFULL (529-3855) or by texting CRIMES (274637) and beginning the message with the letters LAPD.

Tipsters may also submit information on the LAPD website, www.lapdonline.org.
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Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office Press Release (dated Sept 18, 2008)

Portland, TENNESSEE

September 26, 2008 - Portland High School math teacher Sandy L. Binkley, 36, was arrested and charged with statutory rape by an authority figure.

She is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old Portland High student in March 2008. Parents of the student reported the incident to Portland High Principal Bob Gideon. A police investigation indicated that Binkley and the student had sex at the school during school.

According to police, Binkley admitted to having sex with the student. According to police, Binkley admitted to having sex with the student.

She is scheduled to appear in Sumner County General Sessions Court on Oct. 8
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WE FOUND: Portland High School rates a 3 (with 10 being the highest) at GreatSchools.net.
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Jackson, MISSISSIPPI

September 23, 2008 - Sheral Smith, 37, has been charged with statutory rape and transferring a controlled substance. Smith was a teacher at New Summit school. Since her arrest, Smith has been fired from the private school. She'd been a teacher at the schiool for only three weeks.

She is accused or having sex with a 14 year-old student in her Brandon home. Investigators say they think the 37-year-old wife and mother of two boys may have drugged her victim before the incident.

She was arrested Wednesday night. Smith has not been indicted. her case will be presented to a grand jury.
Full Name: Sheral Lee Smith

INDICTED December 7 - A Rankin County grand jury indicted Smith on four counts of statutory rape. Smith's trial has been set for July 2009. She is also facing statutory rape and sexual battery charges in Hinds County against the same teen. Those charges are pending.

Lakewood, COLORADO

CHARGES DISMISSED

Apr 20, 2007 - April T. Robertson, 32, a teacher's aide at Sobesky Academy, a special-education school, was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old male student.

She was arrested for investigation of several felony charges including sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust”, sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust with a pattern and enticement of a child.

CHARGES DISMISSED September 25, 2008 - Charges of sex assault of a child by a person in a position of trust, and enticement of a child, against April T. Robertson were dismissed in June, according to court records. The case is closed, court records state.
Robertson no longer works for the school district.
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TT - No reason given.

Eloy, ARIZONA

September 25, 2008 - Bradley Key, 28, described as a "popular physical education teacher at the Toltec Middle School," was arrested on allegations of three counts of sexual conduct with a 17-year-old Eloy girl starting in June of this year, and sending obscene items, including videos of himself, to the teenager via the internet.

Key has been in the district for four years, having transferred to the middle school form Toltec Elementary three years ago. He had even been selected as teacher of the month in August.

A search warrant was issued on Thursday, Sept. 11 for Key's and his wife's home on Sunshine Boulevard, which was investigated by local police forces.
Full Name: Bradley Jason Key