Summary for February 3, 2007
Arrested
- A basketball coach in West Virginia was arrested and charged with attempted use of a minor in sexually explicit acts and sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian. Another teacher found the cell phone text messages and notified authorities.
- Statutory rape is the accusation against a Masschusetts teacher who was arrested. The alleged victim is not one of her students.
- A Placentia, California teacher is accused of showing two boys pornography in the computer lab. He was arrested. It doesn't sound like pop-ups.
- A drug raid in an upscale Portland, Oregon neighborhood at a former pre-school teacher's home end up with four arrests. One of them was the teacher who was indicted on accusations that include manufacturing, distributing and possessing a controlled substance.
Sentenced
A loathesome geneticist, a Time magazine's runner-up for Man of the Year in 1995, was sentenced to 14 years for the sexual abuse of girl starting when she was 10 years old. The judge acknowledged the extraordinary number of letters in support, only the judge wished they had seen the evidence.
If you really want to be disgusted, there's the camp counselor who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two boys in a summer camp in 1976. He also pleaded no contest in 1977 to sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy Connecticut, where he was ordered to resign, leave the state, and seek counseling. He went on to teach for 27 years. The Massachusetts judge gave him 90 days for the sexual assaults of the two boys.
Not all judges are so unsympathetic to victims. In Kansas, a teacher pleaded no contest to three counts of sexual exploitation of two third-grade girls when he persuaded them to take pictures of their genitals. He was about to get 45-days as "shock treatment" in jail until he opened up his mouth and the judge added another 15 days. " I don’t think leniency is appropriate," the judge is reported to have said.
Lawsuit
A Lodi, California teacher was sentenced in May 2006 after she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of child molestation, exhibiting harmful material to a minor and soliciting another to engage in a lewd act. A former student is now suing the woman and the school district.
Legal
In another courtroom, a Colorado teacher was trying to finalize a plea agreement in connection with charges from abuse that happened in Utah 20 years ago.
Arrested
- A basketball coach in West Virginia was arrested and charged with attempted use of a minor in sexually explicit acts and sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian. Another teacher found the cell phone text messages and notified authorities.
- Statutory rape is the accusation against a Masschusetts teacher who was arrested. The alleged victim is not one of her students.
- A Placentia, California teacher is accused of showing two boys pornography in the computer lab. He was arrested. It doesn't sound like pop-ups.
- A drug raid in an upscale Portland, Oregon neighborhood at a former pre-school teacher's home end up with four arrests. One of them was the teacher who was indicted on accusations that include manufacturing, distributing and possessing a controlled substance.
Sentenced
A loathesome geneticist, a Time magazine's runner-up for Man of the Year in 1995, was sentenced to 14 years for the sexual abuse of girl starting when she was 10 years old. The judge acknowledged the extraordinary number of letters in support, only the judge wished they had seen the evidence.
If you really want to be disgusted, there's the camp counselor who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two boys in a summer camp in 1976. He also pleaded no contest in 1977 to sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy Connecticut, where he was ordered to resign, leave the state, and seek counseling. He went on to teach for 27 years. The Massachusetts judge gave him 90 days for the sexual assaults of the two boys.
Not all judges are so unsympathetic to victims. In Kansas, a teacher pleaded no contest to three counts of sexual exploitation of two third-grade girls when he persuaded them to take pictures of their genitals. He was about to get 45-days as "shock treatment" in jail until he opened up his mouth and the judge added another 15 days. " I don’t think leniency is appropriate," the judge is reported to have said.
Lawsuit
A Lodi, California teacher was sentenced in May 2006 after she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of child molestation, exhibiting harmful material to a minor and soliciting another to engage in a lewd act. A former student is now suing the woman and the school district.
Legal
In another courtroom, a Colorado teacher was trying to finalize a plea agreement in connection with charges from abuse that happened in Utah 20 years ago.
