Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Summary - May 22, 2007


Summary May 22, 2007

SENTENCED
Hazard, Kentucky teacher Phyllis Sanders was sentenced after pleading guilty to smuggling drugs into the Kentucky River Regional Detention Center. Wierd thing is, she's 61 years old.
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SORTA SENTENCED
They call it "boot camp" or "shock sentencing" - the practice of sentencing someone to jail for years but letting them out in months, sometimes weeks. The theory is that they're first time offenders and it's a taste of prison life. The reality is that the public is the last to know that the offender is given a "Get Out Of Jail Free Card." No Pass Go or $200, but the harsh sentence looks good on paper, at least.

Randy Eddy was sentenced to 10 years, but he got out in six months. Ridiculously, the judge noted that Eddy had already lost the custody of his two children and any possibility of teaching again. He's a 37-year-old man who had sex with a 17-year-old girl. He should be teaching?
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ARRESTED
A Westbury, N.Y. subsitute was arrested charged with charged with three counts of rape in the second degree and three counts of criminal sexual acts in the second degree with a 14-year-old girl. The sub, Neal Barnes is 23. Nice way to start, and end, a career. .
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Another substitute, Julie Petty, 36, a Tennessee teacher, was arrested and was charged with sexual battery by an authority figure and rape by an authority figure. The girl was 14-years-old.
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In yet another gay teacher sex story, Emma Painter, a teacher in New Jersey, was arrested on charges of official misconduct and witness tampering for trying to pursuade a 17-year-old female student to lie about the student's sexual relations with another female teacher, Erica Umosella. Umosella was arrested earlier this month.
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An El Monte, California teacher, Marco Irigoyen, was arrested for lewd conduct with a child under the age of 14. The reports said the victims are not students at the school. Few details until he is arraigned on Wednesday.
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A second Prescott, Arizona teacher, David Chauncey, was arrested for child pornography. Police found 70,000 images, the majority of them involved children. Police selected 10 photos, which depict children as young as toddlers in lewd acts to charge him.
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IN COURT
Jason Devlin Montgomery County R-2 High School teacher. He was arrested in 2004.
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IN OTHER STORIES
Twilight Zone stuff. In Maryland, Michelle Dolm, signed an agreement stating that she will not have any contact with the five boys she threatened with explosives over a seven-month period. The agreement was entered into the Circuit Court of Frederick County this morning. The prosecution asked for the agreement after Dohm spoke to one of the victims at a sporting event. She's due to be sentenced in June but why she's not confined at home isn't clear. And why they failed to make 'no contact' a part of her release isn't clear either when it was clearly called for since she harassed the students for over seven months.
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A school yearbook in Conifer, Colorado features bongs, drugs, Minor Possession citations and smirking students. All produced under the watchful eye of their yearbook adviser and English teacher, Amy McTague, who apologized with the usual "move forward" admonition.
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Texas might soon have mandatory random steroid testing policy, paid for either by an increase in ticket sale prices or the taxpayers. Both the Senate and the House have approved versions of the bill. We can thank professional sports players, overreaching coaches and dumb athletes who want to win at any cost.
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Staggeringly, a San Francisco judge dismissed the lawsuit by eight school districts who want to have students take the standardized tests in Spanish. He said it was the state's duty to make sure students speak the language and that voters approved English-only instruction in 1996. Endangered Species Conservatives in California were stunned.
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An Albuquerque, New Mexico student was allowed to graduate after "Someone" UNNAMED in the school district administration changed his grade from "F" to "D". They're investigating, the union if filing a grievance, the state Board of Education is looking into it. The boy is the son of former Albuquerque school board member Miguel Acosta and Bernalillo County Commissioner Teresa Cordova. Need we say more?
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The Tennessee State Board of Education lists License Denial, Suspension, Revocation and Reinstatement in their monthly meetings but without explanation. We hope that the four teachers that had their licenses revoked permanently, the three had their licenses revoked for three to five years, and two teachers that were suspended, appreciate the cover. It might be failure to pay for school loans, but shouldn't the Board say so?
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A Wisconsin school district paid the family of a 15-year-old girl $175,000 in a no-details, we-admit-no-guilt lawsuit brokered by high-priced lawyers, paid for by the district's insurance company, ultimately funded by taxpayers, the facts of which are shielded from public scrutiny. That's called accountability. And, heck, there's more money where that came from!!!
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Camden, New Jersey is one of the poorest cities in the country, and one of the most dangerous. And not just street thugs. Four school employees, including the principal, pleaded not guilty to charges of tealing student field-trip money and submitting phony pay vouchers.
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