Summary July 12, 2007
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ARRESTED for sex with a 13-year-old boy
Lauren Cosgrove, 28, a Texas teacher was arrested on two counts of aggravated sexual assault to a child. The boy was a former student and she was babysitting the boy and his brothers. The boys reported that the teacher and boy spent a lot of time in a locked bedroom, it turns out - for oral sex on each other. She is married and has two children. The boy told police she was afraid of losing her children if anyone found out about their relationship. Nice burden to put on a child, isn't it? FEMALE
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PLEA - no contest to sex with student
San Bruno, California band teacher Adam Albrecht, 29, pleaded no contest to to one felony count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, one felony count of oral copulation with a minor, and one misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, for providing the 17-year-old girl with alcohol and marijuana. He'll be sentenced in August.
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SENTENCED (Again) - Sex with boys
A sixth-grade teacher in Florida was sentenced to 70 years after pleading no contest to 16 counts of sexual offenses against three children during 2003. He pleaded guilty in 2006 to 13 counts of sexual battery and child molestation on a 12-year-old male student and was sentenced to 70 years and lifelong probation. Both sentences to run concurrently for Daniel Cliatt, 29.
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SENTENCED - Sex with student
It's bad enough that the victim had to testify, she also had to listen while two teachers testified for the teacher who pleaded no contest to single count of statutory sexual assault for sex with the 15-year-old girl. David Costanza, 28, was sentenced to six whole months and five years' probation. His father was the school board president who resigned when his son was arrested.
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FAVORITE STORY OF THE DAY
Is the Oregon elementary school principal who was caught with marijuana who has the "full support" of the district superintendent and, the superintendent claims, the school board. Only problem is that the school district is famous for a 1989 crackdown on "drugs" that includes mandatory testing for athletes. They took that battle to the U.S. Supreme Court. That was then. Now it's "Pot for me, but not for thee." Bless the little children. They got their lesson early on the reality of politics and education in Oregon.
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BEST E-MAIL QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I personally believe that this website is ridiculous. Teachers are people too, and everyone makes mistakes. It's not fair to have these stories on here. It on causes unfair judgements to be made." Well, frankly, sir, parents are people too. And they have a right to expect that when they send their children to school, it isn't to learn how to smoke dope and have sex in classroom closets with teachers who are most frequently nearly twice their age. (or more)
CONNECTICUT TO ALLOW CONVICTED DRUG DEALER TO TEACH
The Connecticut Board of Education has decided to reinstate a teacher who was convicted of selling drugs to an undercover police officer. He will be allowed to teach at a school with minority populations (if you can call 54% black and 42% Hispanic "minority populations.") Low-income students or parents don't deserve teachers who are role models, apparently. Or maybe the nearly all-white school board thinks all blacks and hispanics are drug dealers.
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