INDICTEDJames DeGasperin, 35, a physicial education teacher in West Virginia, was indicted on three counts of murder in the first degree for the brutal death of his girlfriend, her 4-year-old son, and her unborn child.
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INDICTED Julie Petty, 36, a substitute teacher and coach at a middle school, was indicted on a charge of sexual battery by a person in authority and statutory rape by a person in authority for sexual contact with a 14-year-old female student. (Tennessee)
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OUT OF PRISON
A judge ordered the early release of Cathy Malone, 32, the New Hampshire teacher's aide who kidnapped a 16-year-old boy and fled to Mexico with him, along with her 8-year-old son. The prison superintendent refused to order an early release because of her stalking charge. She served a total of nine months on the stalking charge. She got a suspended sentence for the kidnapping.
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SENTENCED TODAY's STORIES
Christine Marie Johanson, 35, teacher's aide - sex with 15-year old student
Sentenced to six months in jail and faces additional charges.
Jennifer Bagley, 35, substitute teacher - sex with 15-year-old female student
Sentenced to 10 years' probation.
Judge added 6 months in jail and first three years intensive supervision.
Paul Held, 68, possession of 3-4 million picutres -child pornography
Sentenced to 10 years, registration as a sex offender.
Federal monitoring for the rest of his life.
Philip Speers, 36, two counts of molestation of 2 children
Sentenced to 34 years
He has another trial upcoming in October.
Several arrests, including a third-grade teacher who brought possession of heroin, marijuana and associated pararphenlia to school with her.
ANOTHER TEACHER STRIKE
This one in Washington state. Unlike the strike in Rhode Island that is illegal, the Washington state teachers are within the law to strike. Why do parents put up with this? First thing they should do is find alternative schools and vote to eliminate taxes for schools that hold them up for ransom. We had a previous story on this school district.
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SUSPENDED
The fiancee of a John McNair, 59, was suspended from her position as a coordinator at Jim Allen Elementary School. Investigators from the FBI and Pensacola Police Department found nearly 160,000 pornographic images, including pictures of nude children, on McNair's home computer. Police also located a nearly two-hour audio recording of McNair describing explicit sexual fantasies that involved children as young as two years old. Parts of the recording were played in court Tuesday. The teacher, Frances Hinely, 58, testified at the hearing.
(Pensacola, Florida)
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PARENT PROTESTS WORK
Parents protested having a P.E. teacher at an elementary school return to class with their children after being arrested for masturbating in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Several customers complained before police were called to arrest Anthony Fazzary, 42. He will be on "special assignment."
(Lewiston, New York)
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