Summary July 16, 2007Follow links for updated information.
FIRED
Three Eastern Michigan University officials were fired for covering up a murder. As outrageous as it seems, university President John Fallon along with the Vice President of Student Affairs, Jim Vick, and the school's public safety director, Cindy Hall, told the family and the media that a 22-year-old student, Laura Dickerson, was asphyxiated and that there was no sign of foul play. When a student was arrested and charged with the crime, the parents and public found out she had been raped and killed. Apparently, though, that would have been bad publicity for the university. And for the school administrators and their careers.
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ARRESTED - Enticing a child
Police in Alabama went to Georgia to arrest Keaton Lamar Battle, 34. He was charged with two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes for sexual involvement with male students during his first year of teaching in Alabama.
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ARRESTED - Sexual Assault
In March, an Illini social studies teacher was arrested for sex with a student. Now the Principal at Illini Bluffs Elementary School has been arrested on criminal sexual assault charges. John C. Walker, 42, was charged with sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman. (Illinois)
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CASE PENDING - TRIAL DATE SET
Found in a story about the sentencing of her husband, Susan J. Gore, 41, a former teacher’s assistant at Bolivia Elementary School, was charged in April 2005 with second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and solicitation to commit a felony. Her trial is scheduled for August. No other details. (North Carolina)
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SENTENCED
A North Carolina teacher will be serving less than 6 months after pleading guilty to seven charges in connection with sexual involvement with a 16-year-old girl. John Tyler Beatty, 28, will also be on three years' supervised probation.
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SENTENCED - Mommy Sex (When she's old enough to be your mother.)
In Utah, speech and language pathologist Kathryn Louise Parmley, 49, was sentenced to a year for sex with a 17-year-old male student. She'll be on probation for three years. The judge, however, made it a condition of her sentence that she not be around children under the age of 18, including her 4-year-old grandson. Nice, huh?
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SENTENCED - AGAIN
We're willing to bet that Donald Shissler, 74, a teacher's assistant who got a retrial because he wasn't adequately represented, wishes he had stuck with the first lawyer. After conviction in the second trial, he was sentenced to 210 years. Yes. Two centuries. Not, of course, that he will live all that long, but it's good to know that he won't be eligible for parole for 70 years, long past his expiration date. (Colorado)
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Sociopath of the Day
Angela Comer, now 28, the Kentucky teacher who fled to Mexico with her 3-year-old son and a 14-year-old male student, now claims that the student forced her at gunpoint. She wanted her side of the story heard before she was sentenced after pleading guilty one count of third degree sodomy and to custodial interference. Maybe she's hoping for a pych evaluation.
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SINCERE APOLOGIES
Apologies to readers for the delay in daily summaries. We also apologize for what appears to be a lack of consistency in identifying coaches who have sex with students.
We began identifying them on the basis of whether the victims were being coached and the relationship was one of coach-student. However, few coaches are full-time at schools, and there was problem that not all stories identify whether the student was being coached by the accused or the relationship developed through the classroom. We settled on identifying coaches where it was clearly established that the victim was being coached by the perpetrator. It isn't because coaches are more testosterone-driven, but due to the unstructured time that coaches spend with students. The same can be said for band teachers, who thankfully, have dropped off in frequency.
