Shelton Hill
01-07-09

Shelton Hill, originally charged with three counts of Unlawful Intercourse With a Minor, one count of Oral Copulation with a person under 18-years-old and one count of Lewd Act With Force Violence Duress has pleaded guilty to a the felony count of oral copulation with a person under 18-years-old. More

John Peter Salamon
01-06-09

Police say they have received fresh leads in their investigation of a Tavares High School teacher accused of groping a 15-year-old student in the school's media center.

John Peter Salamon, 54, a teacher in Lake County schools since 1986, had a history of "touchy" and "creepy" behavior, said police Chief Stoney Lubins, using descriptions given to detectives by past and present female students at the school. More

Kelsey Peterson
01-06-08

Kelsey Peterson, the Lexington teacher who had an affair with a sixth-grade student before fleeing with him to Mexico, pleaded guilty to two counts of felony sexual assault of a minor Monday in Dawson County District Court. Peterson entered the plea after a deal with Dawson County Attorney Liz Waterman to drop charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor, and felony child abuse. More

Jonathan DesRosier
01-06-09

A 29-year-old former Connecticut high school football coach has been sentenced to 46 months in prison on federal child sex charges.

Prosecutors say 29-year-old Jonathan DesRosier of Norwich had several explicit online chats with a person he believed was a 14-year-old girl, asking if she wanted to see him naked and learn to perform sexual acts. More

Brock M. Felton
01-05-09

The trial for Brock M. Felton, 33, of Melbourne has been scheduled to last five days, according to the Izard County Clerk's Office. More

Kevin J. Feyas
01-05-09

Kevin J. Feyas, 50, also has been under investigation by the Erie County District Attorney's Office over allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with minors, one of the county's top prosecutors said. The prosecutor said the investigation ran into difficulties because of concerns over the statute of limitations. More

DAVID PACE
01-04-09

A former North Henderson High School teacher accused of soliciting sex from an underage girl over the Internet will plead guilty Monday. David Frank Pace reached a plea agreement, according to federal court records filed earlier this week. The details of the plea agreement were not made public. Pace was charged with one count coercion or enticement. More

Noygel Antonio Massop
01-03-09

Noygel Antonio Massop, 41, a former English teacher and boys basketball coach at J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs, Florida has been arrested and jailed without bail on five charges of sexual battery for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old female student from about Oct. 1, 2007, to Nov. 4, 2008. More

Shanna Couture
01-03-09

Groton Town police have charged a 31-year-old woman who worked as a teacher's assistant at Fitch High School with engaging in sexual misconduct with one student and providing alcohol to two students. More

Stanley Lee Reed
01-03-09

A 61-year-old Stanley Lee Reed returns to Savannah, GA after he was arrested by US Marshals on Dec 23 in Alabama. He is being charged with sexual assault against a student, aggravated molestation, and enticing a child for indecent purposes. More

Lindsey H. Froehlich
01-03-09

A review of court records indicates that on 08/15/08 the case against Lindsey Froehlich was dismissed More

Jay Kylee Bain
12-02-08

A former San Diego middle school teacher accused of sending graphic photographs of himself to one of his female students was arraigned Monday in federal court. Jay Kylee Bain, 37, is charged with possession of child pornography. He remains in custody and is due back in court Friday for a detention hearing. According to the criminal complaint -- between 2005 and 2007 -- Bain was found to be in possession of several computers containing hundreds of images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. More

Randall Ralston
01-01-09

An Anderson Township man accused of having sex with underage girls, including two on a basketball team he coached, has admitted his guilt. Randall Ralston, 39, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of unlawful sexual conduct and three counts of sexual battery. He faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced next month. Ralston was originally charged with one count sof rape and 13 counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. More

Edgar A. Berry
01-31-09

The band leader at Olmsted Falls High School is accused of having sexual contact with a female band member. Edgar A. Berry, 38, is charged with sexual battery. Olmsted Township police arrested him Tuesday. More

Timothy Robert Brightbill
01-01-09

A high school teacher is under arrest on a charge of sexual activity with a student. Timothy Robert Brightbill, 42, of Spring Hill was arrested New Year's Eve when the victim's mom returned home early and found them in her daughter's bedroom clad only in their underwear and engaged in sexual activity. More

Robert Douglas Johnston
12-31-08

A Mt. Hebron High School band teacher arrested last year for sexually abusing a 17-year-old female student had been the target of an in-school investigation in 2007, according to charging documents.

Robert Douglas Johnston, 61, of the 4400 block of Brittany Drive, in Ellicott City, was arrested Dec. 22 after turning himself into police. He is charged with sexual abuse of a minor, third- and fourth-degree sex offenses, and obscene telephone misuse, according to police. More

Janelle Bird
12-31-08

A former teacher is starting a two-year prison term for a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student.

Janelle Bird, 28, a former East Hill Christian School and Escambia High School teacher, was convicted in July 2006 of unlawful sexual activity and committing lascivious acts with the teen. More

Karl Lemart Wells II
12-31-08

Police arrested a former Western Guilford High basketball coach Tuesday on a sex charge.

Karl Lemart Wells II, 27, of 4003 Old Oak Ridge Road is charged with indecent liberties with a student. More

David G. Kistler
12-31-08

A Kokomo man and former teacher was arrested after hundreds images and videos of child pornography were discovered on a computer he brought in to get repaired, police said. David G. Kistler, 63, turned himself in at the Howard County Jail Tuesday evening after a warrant was issued for his arrest, said Lt. Don Whitehead. Workers at a local computer store contacted police after finding child pornography on the machine's hard drive. More

Michael Gottier
12-31-08

Former Warwick High School band instructor Michael Gottier has waived his right to a preliminary hearing and is headed for trial in Lancaster County Court on allegations he had intimate contact with a 16-year-old student. More

Matthew Gantz
12-30-08

A former Cherokee County drama teacher will spend six years behind bars and another 14 on probation for having sex with two of his students.

Matthew Gantz, 41, of Canton, also cannot teach or have contact with females under 18 while on probation, Cherokee County District Attorney Garry T. Moss said Tuesday. More

Brandon Bates
12-30-08

A Southern University at Shreveport employee faces multiple charges after being caught in a car with a Huntington High School student he once taught. Caddo sheriff's deputies were investigating a suspicious car on Jefferson Paige Road when they found the 16-year-old girl and Brandon Bates, 38, of the 6500 block of Tierra Circle in Shreveport, in the Honda Prelude about 3:30 a.m. Dec. 25, according to a Caddo sheriff's office arrest report. More

James Robert Barany
12-29-08

The San Jose teacher arrested for soliciting sexual favors from a 13-year-old over the internet, was sentenced today. 

James Barany was arrested in August in Santa Cruz. He had agreed to meet a Santa Cruz police officer who was posing as a 13-year-old girl. More

page white
12-29-08

A former Travis High School teacher was sentenced to 15 years of probation Monday after pleading guilty to child pornography and improper photography charges. Under the terms of his probation, Page White, 40, right, must register as a sex offender and avoid contact with children. He has surrendered his teaching license. More

Hope Jacoby
12-29-08

An athletic trainer at Tustin High School has been arrested on suspicion of engaging in unlawful sex acts with a student at the school, an Orange County sheriff's spokesman said Wednesday. Hope Jacoby, 23, who has worked with athletes at the school for the last year, was arrested last week on suspicion of oral copulation of a minor and unlawful sex with a minor, said Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino. More

Danny Villa
12-29-08

A former New England Patriot and ex-coach of this year’s state champion Walpole football team surrendered to police in Arizona last night and will return to Massachusetts to face three counts of child rape and three counts of enticing a minor, police and his lawyer said last night. More

Damon M. Williams
12-29-08

The Orleans Parish district attorney's office has declined to press obscenity charges against a popular high school choir director after concluding that evidence against the educator didn't meet the legal definition of the crime. Rabouin High School music teacher Da'Mon M. Williams was arrested at the school in October and charged with obscenity after a 17-year-old Rabouin student told New Orleans police he received a "picture message of a penis" to his cell phone from Williams' phone, according to a police report. More

Gustavo Bordenabe
12-28-08

A borough man, who is a math teacher and soccer coach at a Jersey City high school, was arrested Friday on charges of carrying a sexual relationship with a minor for more than a year. More

Matthew Wilson
12-26-08

A Somonauk, Ill., high school agriculture teacher has been arrested and charged for the second time in a two-week period, the DeKalb County sheriff's office said today. The latest charges against Somonauk High School teacher Matthew Wilson, 51, came Friday after he was accused by an alleged victim who had read a news account of the earlier charges, Sheriff Roger Scott said. More

Melissa Diana Koehn
12-26-08

A teacher on leave from a private high school in Minnesota faces charges she had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl who had been her student. Authorities said Melissa Diana Koehn, 30, of Kenosha, Wis., was charged by the Dakota County Attorney's office Tuesday with three felony counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and freed on $10,000 bail, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Wednesday. More

Ryan Christopher Janssen
12-26-08

A former Norwalk teacher will be on probation for a year and must register as a sex offender because he engaged in a two-year sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student.
Ryan Christopher Janssen, 31, pleaded guilty this week of lascivious acts with a minor. The plea means he will spend 10 years on the state sex offender registry. More

Manuel Rivera
12-24-08

A Salinas teacher suspected of molesting a male student was arrested again Tuesday for allegedly molesting two other boys. More

Joaquin Gonzalez
12-24-08

A Butts County high school teacher accused of preying on female students in exchange for grades is home Tuesday night -- unexpectedly released from jail.

Both parents and investigators were surprised - and angry - when they heard the Jackson High School Spanish teacher was out on bond. More

Jason Neelley
12-24-08

A local high school teacher charged with sexual abuse of a student pleaded not guilty today.

Investigators say 34-year-old Jason Neelley had inappropriate sexual contact with a 17-year-old student. More

Fernando Gonzalez
12-24-08

In May, a North Shore High School Algebra teacher was arrested on two counts of possession of child pornography after students allegedly observed him looking at porn on a computer in a classroom at the school while committing indecent acts.

An indictment on Fernando Gonzalez, 34, of Houston, was handed down Dec. 10. He will face trial on Feb. 9, 2009. More

Steven Yewcic
12-24-08

Newport News high school teacher is accused of having sex with a former student. Police say Steven Yewcic is a teacher at Woodside High School.

Yewcic is being charged with five counts each of taking indecent liberties with a child and with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. More

Scott Eugene Dietlin
12-24-08

The A 34-year-old Petaluma high school teacher accused of setting up an illicit date with a person he believed was a 15-year-old girl pleaded not guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court Tuesday, a deputy district attorney said. Scott Eugene Dietlin is charged with four felony counts of sexually explicit communication with a minor and faces up to five years in prison if convicted, Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. More

Stephanie Harris
12-23-08

A former Marble City schoolteacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old male student has waived her right to a preliminary hearing, court officials said Tuesday.

Stephanie Diane Harris, 27, of Sallisaw is charged in Sequoyah County District Court in Sallisaw with first-degree rape and three counts of soliciting sexual conduct of communication with a minor by use of technology. Her next court date is Jan. 22. More

Robert Douglas Johnston
12-23-08

A Howard County police have charged the longtime Mt. Hebron High School band director with sexually abusing a 17-year-old female student over a period of two years.

Robert Douglas Johnston, 61, of Ellicott City was arrested last night after surrendering to police. More

Yvette Starzyk
12-23-08

A former Hinkley High School athletic trainer received three years probation Monday after she was convicted of attempted sexual assault on a student by a person in a position of trust.

As part of her supervised probation, Yvette Starzyk, 27, was ordered by Adams County Judge Michael A. Cox to register as a sex offender. More

Thomas Bavedas
12-22-08

A former city elementary school teacher faces criminal charges for allegedly hiding a video camera in a classroom closet and videotaping girls as they changed into costumes in preparation for a Halloween pageant. More

Thomas Beltran
12-22-08

A Santa Monica middle school teacher pleaded guilty today to multiple counts of illegal sex acts with young girls and is scheduled to be sentenced to 14 years in state prison, prosecutors said. Thomas Arthur Beltran, 61, taught at Lincoln Middle School for 20 years and admitted to sexually molesting nine girls. Beltran also admitted to molesting two others but was not charged in those cases because the statute of limitations had expired. More

Jared Wolfgang
12-22-08

A former Troy schools music teacher and assistant band director was ordered to spend 30 days in the Miami County Jail Monday, Dec. 22, after being convicted of misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency or unruliness of a minor. More

Adam Friedman
12-22-08

A Connecticut State Police have charged a Willimantic magnet school teacher with multiple counts of sexual assault for having a relationship with a 15-year-old student. Troopers said Adam Friedman, 44, of Newington, an instructor at the ACT Magnet High School, surrendered to police Monday. He was to be arraigned later in the day at Rockville Superior Court on 10 counts of second-degree sexual assault, one count of fourth-degree sexual assault and 11 counts of risk of injury or impairing the morals of a minor. More

Michael John Kozak
12-22-08

A former Crescent Elk Middle School teaching assistant pleaded guilty Friday to the molestation of a child in his home.

Michael John Kozak, 36, is facing up to eight years in prison for the offense, said Del Norte County District Attorney Mike Riese. Kozak had worked for the school district since January, according to district officials. More

Matthew Gantz
12-22-08

A Canton man accused of having sex with at least two students while he was their drama teacher has pleaded guilty.

Former Cherokee High School teacher and coach Matthew Gantz, 41, entered his plea in Cherokee County Superior Court on Friday. More

Kelly Parker
12-21-08

Meridian High School Principal Kelly Parker, who spent the night in the Bosque County Jail after he was arrested Tuesday on an improper relationship between educator and student charge, was released Wednesday after posting $25,000 bond. More

Brian Norman
12-21-08

A Harford County high school teacher who was arrested last month after being accused of slapping a 16-year-old female student on the buttocks was found dead of a gunshot wound in his home last night. More

Craig Dinwiddie
12-19-08

A 20-year Gonzales High School teacher faces more than three years in prison after pleading no contest Thursday morning to felony counts of possessing child pornography. More

James J. Atkinson III
12-19-08

Thirteen people, including a department chairman at West Deptford High School, have been charged with child-pornography offenses after a 10-week investigation, authorities said Thursday. More

Charles Edward Johnson Sr.
12-19-08

St. Lucie County schoolteacher and coach charged with molesting two female students accepted a plea deal Friday that gets him out of jail but forces him to give up teaching.

Charles Edward Johnson Sr., a Fort Pierce Westwood High School math teacher and baseball coach who had been charged with two felony counts of lewd or lascivious molestation and a single count of misdemeanor battery, pleaded no contest to three counts of misdemeanor battery. More

Odis L. Moreton Jr.
12-19-08

A math teacher who recently resigned from First Coast High School has been arrested on a charge of sexual battery on a 16-year-old student. Odis L. Moreton Jr., 36, who lives in St. Augustine, was taken into custody Dec. 12 in St. Johns County after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was extradited to the Duval County jail Monday where he remains on $1 million bail. More

Michelle Ward Farley
12-19-08

Boise police arrested a Borah High School psychology teacher Thursday for two charges of sexual battery of a boy between the ages of 16-to-17.

Michelle Ward Farley, 40, is being held in the Ada County Jail on a $10,000 bond. Defense attorney Chuck Peterson said Friday that Farley planned to post bond and will defend herself against the charge. More

Claire Richards (a.k.a Marie Richard)
12-19-08

Columbus Police say they have arrested a Jordan High teacher accused of having sex with a student. More

Douglas E. Hunt
12-19-08

A teacher at Shepherdstown Elementary has been charged with enticement of a minor and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, school district officials said during a press conference this morning. More

Erica Morquecho Gonzales
12-19-08

Authorities are in the process of issuing an arrest warrant for a Kress teacher's aide. Erica Morquecho Gonzales allegedly had sexual relations with a 17-year old student in January. On Wednesday, a Hale County Grand Jury indicted the 33-year-old for improper relationship between educator and student. More

Emma Painter
12-19-08

A teacher suspended from Kingsway Regional High School in Woolwich Township, Gloucester County, was found guilty yesterday of trying to persuade a 17-year-old female student to recant statements about the girl's sexual relationship with another teacher. More

Brian Evan Morgan
12-19-08

A Newton County elementary school janitor is facing two counts of sexual exploitation of a child, Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials said. The GBI arrested Brian Evan Morgan. Authorities issued a search warrant after receiving information that the 48-year-old was sharing files containing child pornography. More

Elizabeth Gaddy
12-19-08

Troup County Sheriff's officers arrested a school teacher  on charges of aggravated child molestation, child molestation, and enticing a child for indecent purposes. 

Elizabeth Gaddy is a seventh grade teacher at Callaway Middle School. She has been on administrative leave since November 20, 2008 -- pending investigation of her professional conduct. More

Jonathan Ulloa Ruano
12-19-08

A 22-year-old teacher's aide was arraigned Wednesday on charges that he had unlawful sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old female student, prosecutors said.

Jonathan Ulloa Ruano, of Santa Ana, pleaded not guilty. He was ordered held on $20,000 bail but has since been released. More

Eric Achenbach
12-19-08

Eric Achenbach, 59, reportedly a computers and graphic arts at Brattleboro Union High School in Brattleboro, Vermont has been charged with possession of child pornography after two deer hunters stumbled across what is allegedly Achenbach’s collection of child pornography, hidden in the woods. More

Kellie Ann Lundon-Cormican
12-19-08

A former teacher's aide from Crookston has pleaded guilty to charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy.

Thirty-nine-year-old Kellie Ann Cormican entered guilty pleas Wednesday to five counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct which occurred in August, September and November of 2007. More

Carl Kubicek
12-19-08

A former Pitman High School teacher sentenced to nine months in jail for having sex with his 17-year-old student won't get to serve his sentence at home, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

Carl Troy Kubicek, 36, was denied for the department's home detention program, which allows defendants to serve their jail time from home while wearing an electronic ankle monitor, said deputy Royjindar Singh, the Sheriff's Department spokesman. More

Christopher Wright
12-19-08

A Moorpark High School teacher has been arrested on suspicion of showing a nude photograph of himself to a 15-year-old student, police said today. More