SUMMARY JULY 14, 2007Follow links for updated information.
ARRESTED - possession of child pornography
School is out so you would think children would be safe. But in North Texas, the third teacher was arrested this week. The arrested included Craig Andrew Simon, 54. He was arrested for child pornography shortly after he posted bail on solicitation of sex from a minor for internet solicitation. They searched the middle school teacher's computer after his first arrest and found the child pornography.
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SENTENCED
In Florida, Daniel Zdrodowski, 29, was sentenced to 5 and a half years for sex with a student. He pleaded no contest in May to a felony charge of engaging in unlawful sexual activity with a minor. The student refused to testify against him. Shamefully, a teacher testified, hoping for a lighter sentence. "I believe those two people fell in love," testified Joyce Ostrom, a 61-year-old elementary school teacher who has known Zdrodowski since he was young. "This is a case where every law doesn't fit every crime." The judge thought otherwise. "There's is no rule that says you are excused from having sex with a student as long as you are a nice person," the judge said.
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SENTENCED - Sex with a 13-year-old girl
It's Baltimore, so you have to expect leniency in sentencing, but 18 months for having sex with a 13-year-old child we are willing to bet was poor and black, is not leniency; it's permission to abuse children. He'll have to register as a sex offender, but Timothy Nicholas Gounaris, 50, will likely be released on work release in less than 9 months. What is worse is that Gounaris was recommended to be fired by another district, but was hired to work in the middle school in Baltimore. Why they accepted the plea agreement is anyone's guess, but prosecutors dropped five other charges, including second-degree rape and perverted practice.
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SENTENCED - Child pornography with pictures as young as 5-year olds having sex
A Waterford, Maine volunteer was arrested after an online conversation. He admitted to having 100 pictures of girls as young as 5 years old performing sex acts. He admitted to an online police officer that he got "very excited" from working around children, and touched his granddaughter's buttocks when her mother was not looking. He sent a picture of a 9-year-old girl at his school to the undercover officer. The little girl was an apparent favorite.
Richard Beebe, 68 was sentenced to 60 days.
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