SUMMARY JULY 13, 2007Follow links for updated information.
ARRESTED - sexual abuse
In Alabama, a a Beulah High School job coach, was arrested and charged with first degree sexual abuse after a former student alleges he fell asleep to find Charles Bochette, 45, on top of him.
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ARRESTED - possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia
Methamphetamine arrests used to be confined to inner city adults, mostly male adults. Not any more. Amy Hill-Tabor, an elementary school teacher in Kentucky was arrested and charged with possession.
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ARRESTED - Internet solicitation of sex from a minor
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Scott Hovey, 26, was arrested when he went to a mall to meet with what he thought was a minor. He was charged with internet solicitation of a child for sexual activity. He's been suspended with pay. In February, the assistant principal of the school was arrested for sexual abuse of a boy.
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ARRESTED - Child Pornography
In Alabama, a a Beulah High School job coach, was arrested and charged with first degree sexual abuse after a former student alleges he fell asleep to find Charles Bochette, 45, on top of him.
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ARRESTED - possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia
Methamphetamine arrests used to be confined to inner city adults, mostly male adults. Not any more. Amy Hill-Tabor, an elementary school teacher in Kentucky was arrested and charged with possession.
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ARRESTED - Internet solicitation of sex from a minor
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Scott Hovey, 26, was arrested when he went to a mall to meet with what he thought was a minor. He was charged with internet solicitation of a child for sexual activity. He's been suspended with pay. In February, the assistant principal of the school was arrested for sexual abuse of a boy.
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ARRESTED - Child Pornography
David D. Koepp, 40, a Wisconsin teacher was arrested for trying to download a video file via his computer that depicted a four-year-old girl engaging in sexual activity with an adult male. The indictment also charges that Koepp knew he had two images on his computer that depicted young girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
An Ohio teacher, Victoria A. Cramer, 27, was arrested for petty theft and receiving stolen property. Bizarrely, she attended weddings and stole gift cards from two different weddings.
By a federal grand jury on on a felony count of interference with a flight attendant and two misdemeanor assault charges, Valjean Marguriet, 55, a Pompano Beach, Florida, teacher had to physcially restrained on the plane. She was teaching despite a 1998 arrest for driving under the influence and being in the company of a juvenile at the time. She was placed on six month's probation and fined at that time.
“I believe that I must send a message to every person who walks in that school as a teacher, as a coach, as a mentor, as whatever it may be, you do not lay a hand on a child," said the judge.There's one judge who ought to run for public office. He sentenced Loral “Cassie” Hall, 32, to 60 days years probation on a misdemeanor unlawful sexual contact charge involving a 17-year-old female. In addition, Hall will have to register as a sex offender. Those were the requirements of the charges. The judge also ordered 50 hours community service, substance abuse evaluation, fine, costs and sex offender fees and surcharges and said Hall would pay for counseling if the victim required it.
Gonzales added there would be no exceptions to the no-child-contact prohibition including family members such as nieces, nephews and cousins. “You will be that conspicuous absent family member at family gatherings,” Gonzales told Hall. “You will miss the baptisms, you will miss the confirmations, the birthdays, Christmases, the reunions."(California)
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SENTENCED
In North Carolina, Cornelius White, 25, a substitute teacher, was sentenced to 60 days (after credit for time in jail before he posted bail, it means 16 days in jail) for sex with a 17-year-old female student. He will also be on probation to two years and be required to register as a sex offender.
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SENTENCEDIn Wisconsin, Nathan E. Cox, 38, was sentenced to 1 year in jail for sexual assault of a 13-year-old female student. How a 38-year-old man could kiss and pet a 13-year-old is a mystery. Why the heck newspaper would refer to the sordid groping as "Barron teacher sentenced for affair with student" is beyond us.
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NO SEX OFFENDERS WANTED
Not everyone is happy to have Christine Scarlett living so close to a school. She's the teacher who had sex with a student and got a wrist slap of three days in jail. They want the 39-year-old former teacher to move away from their children. You would think the real question is whether a registered sex offender should even allowed access to her own children. TT - LINK
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ST. LOUIS SCHOOL BOARD
The state appointed an administratie school board to take over St. Louis Schools. But the elected school board refuses to cede authority to the administrative board. At issue is who is to write the checks. A judge intervened to rule on behalf of the appointed school board.
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OAKLAND SCHOOL BOARD
St. Louis and Oakland have just about the same demographics and much of the same problems. In Oakland, Isaac Haaq, founder and principal of a charter school finally resigned. The state invalidated the test scores for the school for a second straight year due to "adult testing irregularities," or, in other words, cheating. And not by students. The big question is why anyone with half a brain would trust someone with Haaq's past to run a school in the first place.
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