Thursday, January 25, 2007

SUMMARY - January 25, 2007


UPDATED TODAY

Curtis Bibb, assistant superintendent of Gainesville City, Florida, schools, resigned. He is facing three drug charges in South Carolina. He was hired despite an earlier conviction for marijuana. He was kept on despite being briefly suspended when a maintenance supervisor failed a drug test but continued to drive a school bus and despite the fact that Bibb "wasn't showing up for meetings, or he was showing up late and not remembering things." TT link.

SENTENCED
Jeffrey Harvey was sentenced to 6 to 12 months behind bars, and will also serve one year probation for engaging in a sexual relationship with his 17 year old student. News item link. TT link.

Also sentenced was Francis Lyvers, the Lebanon, Kentucky teacher after pleading guilty to an amended charge of first-degree wanton endangerment. The girl was underage. He was given five years of supervised pretrial diversion. He has to serve 90 days in jail and admit on the record that he had consensual sex with the victim. TT link.

OUTRAGE OF THE DAY
Dennis Carter of Birmingham, Michigan, pleaded guilty for a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student. He bought the student an extra phone on his plan because, as the former student testified, "my mom saw the cell phone bill for my plan and there were hundreds of calls and text messages from him. So he bought a different phone and gave it to me so my mom would think there was no contact."
Carter's lawyer had this to say,

"It's just unfortunate the law put him in this predicament," Sabbota said. "The fact is, she was a full participant in all the activities. She knew what she was doing"
Yeah. Only problem was he was 52.