Summary June 20, 2007Follow links for updated information.
SENTENCED
An Ohio bad director was sentenced to two years in prison, with release promised in 9 months for a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl. John Stadler is 62-years-old. After prison, he will be on probation for five years and must register as a sex offender. Revolting.
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SENTENCED - Pedophile
A pre-sentence psychological examination of Kenneth Anderson, 60, indicated that he was an unrepentant pedophile who became aroused during contact with children. He was charged with 14 felony counts involving nine students since 1991. He was tried and there was a mistrial. He was allowed to plead no contest to to committing a lewd act with a child under age 14 and to continuous sexual abuse of a child. For that, he was to get no jail time. And true enough, he gets to serve six months' of his jail time under electronically monitored home confinement or another alternative to jail and five years' probation.
HE MUST ALSO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER, which begs the question, before sex offender registration, what kind of punishment is an ankle bracelet and probation? (California)
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SENTENCED - Forgery
A 53-year-old music teacher was sentenced to two years' probation for helping his girlfriend forge papers to help get her out of jail. She is serving one year on her sixth drunk driving arrest. (Massachusetts)
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PLEADED GUILTY - attempted sex with a minor
That's what she pleaded to for having sex in her car with a 14-year-old boy. Teacher's aide Alma Hernandez, 27, will be sentenced July 25. It might not be pretty for the teacher. The prosecutor has instituted 10-year sentences because so many adults were getting away with a year in jail and probation. (We know a lot who get ankle bracelets including pedophiles.)
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PLEADED GUILTY - Drug Dealing
In New York, Randolph Grant, 40, pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and criminal sale of a controlled substance on the grounds of a school. He was arrested selling cocaine to adults on a school playground. He surrended his teaching license. If he hadn't, the 20 vials of crack would be, we presume, grounds for revocation, but you never know. TT - Link
PLEADED GUILTY - Sex with student
Darcie Esson pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault on a child ages 15-17 while in a position of trust. She is the Colorado teacher who had sex with a 17-year-old football team member while her children and their babysitter slept in the motel room. She'll be sentenced in August but at a guess, we are thinking that she'll get probation and a possible gig to teach sex education in Boulder, Colorado. At the least, she could get an endowed chair at the University of Colorado.
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School Board Watch
In New Orleans you expect corruption so it isn't any surprise when a former school board member pleads guilty to accepting $100,000. Of course, not every school board member can claim to have received the money in a bribery scandal involving the brother of a U.S. Congressman. The Congressman, coincidentally, is also under indictment for wrongdoing. Her guilty plea is the 23rd in the scandal.
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Moral Character Complaints
Even the New York Times is starting to acknowledge the number of teachers who are sexually involved with students. They choose, however, to focus on a very low number of 104 cases investigated in 2005-2006 in New York state. They don't, however, consider how many teachers were allowed to voluntarily surrender their licenses or how many were fired outright for teacher-student sex, something that is far easier in New York state than other states due to their moral clauses in contracts. Much easier to diminish the problem if you don't look too closely.
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In North Carolina, parents fought against the sexual relationship between their daughter and her teacher. The father begged the school board to do something. For months. The board claimed they couldn't prove the relationship. In the end, the parents gave up and gave permission for the 16-year-old to marry the 40-year-old teacher. THE CLUE to the real problem is that he is the fourth employee at the high school sexually involved with a student.
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INDICTED
A Texas teacher was indicted for internet stalking for death threats to federal agent, a police officer and a former girlfriend. The school district was aware that he was under investigation when they renewed Steven Weste's contract. Now he's suspended indefintely with pay. Their generosity with taxpayer money is heart warming, isn't it?
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