SENTENCED (Sorta)After pleading guilty to two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault and tampering with a witness last month, Matthew Glasser, 31, a Catholic school music teacher, was sentenced to seven years SUSPENDED and five years of probation.
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SENTENCED to 20 years
In North Carolina, Jimmie Grubbs, 66, a teacher and mentor to children lauded by local newspapers, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He pleaded guilty in September to federal charges for taking students to Columbia, S.C. and Myrtle Beach, S.C. and molesting them. The newspaper named the six boys who stepped forward as The Herald’s 2006 Man of the Year.
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ARRESTED - third time
Queens teacher Julio Benavides, 28, was arrested - again. He was arrested in June, accused of engaging in sexual intercourse with a then 14-year-old female student. A condition of his release was to have no contact with the victim. He was arrested in September for violating that order. This latest arrest is for trying to contact the victim again.
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STILL WAITING - Child Pornography
David Cameron was arrested in 2004 for child pornography. He was one of six men accused of taking part in a child porn ring operating out of a Mt. Vernon home in Illinois. He will have a pretrial hearing in February on two different dates, one for each county that has filed charges.
Note: One of the things we have observed here that child pornography cases are lengthy. The reason seems to be that the investigating agencies make a great effort to identify the children in case any of them are local. This is a long process but is crucial to understanding the charges that should be filed. Then, there seems to be a connecting web between child pornographers that investigators want to know about while they might have a potential testifying witness.
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RELEASE FROM PRISON
For the second time this week, a community has scheduled a public safety meeting to notify residents that a sex offender will be moving into the community. Both are teachers. Robert Pannier, now age 40, was sentenced in 1998 for having sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old student. Released in 2007, he violated conditions of his parole. He has been classified as a Level III offenders show traits of high public risk to re-offend, according to the Department of Corrections
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CONVICTED but still licensed to teach
In Illinois, they are, like Ohio, coming to an awareness that even when teachers are convicted and are in prison, they remain licensed to teach. They pointed to a New Mexico law that passed last year that means that they now no longer require a guilty verdict before revoking a teacher's credentials. An arrest now is enough to warrant pulling an accused teacher's state license.
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BEST READING * * * * *
The Columbus Dispatch concludes their four-part series on problems with disciplining teachers in Ohio. It's a first-rate series that was the result of a 10-month investigation, collecting records (like pulling teeth) from the state's Office of Professional Conduct. They're a newspaper with clout so you can imagine what a parent could find out. Absolutely nothing. Because even with the power of the press, they found 246 cases that the Office of Professional Conduct wouldn't release even when ordered to do so by the state's Attorney General.
How's that for hubris? Ohio, however, isn't an exception to the belief of the Educational Establishment that they are above the law.
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