Friday, September 21, 2007

Summary - September 21, 2007

TOP STORY: DeAnna Abasolo-Farley, 34, pleaded guilty to aggravated indecent liberties with a child and unlawful relations between a teacher and student between the ages of 16 and 17. The plea agreement calls for 30 months in jail with 3 years of post-release supervision. She will be required to be on the registered sex offender list for at least 10 years. She will be sentenced in October.
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SENTENCED - Assault and batter of a female student
Achi Ben-Shalom, 52, convicted in August of misdemeanor counts of assault and battery on a female student, was sentenced to 90 days in County Jail for misdemeanor assault and battery against a former student. He must also serve three years of county probation. He also cannot work as a teacher or in a position of trust with children and cannot possess pornography.
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CHARGED with child abuse
In Shaumburg, Illinois, a special ed teacher at Robert Frost Junior High, was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated battery and one count of unlawful restraint. Patrick McCarthy, 30, was turned in by a classroom aide who witnessed the abuse.
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INVESTIGATION
Police have referred a school principal to prosecutors for possible obstruction of justice charges and two teachers for possible child abuse charges for allowing older students to terrorize a classroom for a half hour while they did nothing. The principal reportedly sent one of the students home to avoid arrest. The charter school is for troubled students in Pinellas Park, Florida.
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ARRESTED
A 23-year-old substitute teacher in the Honeoye Falls Central School District (NY) was arrested accused of sending sexual pictures via cell-phone, as well as soliciting girls to send pictures to him. He is also accused of sexual contact with a female less than 17 years old. Timothy Meehan, 23, was arraigned on charges of disseminating indecent material to minors in the 1st degree, promoting sexual performance of a child, criminal Sexual Act in the 3rd degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
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ARRESTED - Child Pornography
Mike Govig, 44, described as a "hero coach" in Papillion, Nebraska, was arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. It was part of their investigation into a website called "Home Collection" a year-and-a-half ago. That led them to other child porn websites like "Sexy Angels," "Spycam Lolitas," Lollivirgins," and "Excited Angels." Govig paid for a subscription to a site.
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ARRAIGNED - Internet Sexual Solicitation
He told police he didn't own a computer or an account to access the internet. They found a newspaper article in which he said he uses the Internet daily to buy Frisbees for his collection. Later they found computer parts in a trash bag and a witness who took down the license number that turned out to belong to Edward Kowalski, 51, a middle school teacher at White Cloud Junior High, White Cloud, Michigan.
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