NE - Former Lexington school teacher Kelsey Peterson, who last year fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old boy, was sentenced today to six years in prison. Peterson, 26, pleaded guilty earlier this summer to federal charges of traveling with a person younger than 18 to have sex.
"I want to take responsibility for what I did," Peterson told U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp in a halting voice. "I am not a sexual predator. That's not who I am. "
In handing down her sentence, Smith Camp said she does not consider Peterson a "sexual predator." Instead, the judge said Peterson's maturity factor "seems to be on the level of a junior high school student." - Read the entire article here
BRISTOL - A former teacher at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford was charged Friday morning with sexually assaulting a student in Bristol, police said.
Julie Denno, 27, of Ballston Lake, N.Y., is accused of sexually assaulting a male student under the age of 16 from the school over a two-month period at her North Pond Street home, police spokesman Lt. Edward Spyros said. - Read the entire article here
RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. - A former Jackson teacher was arrested and charged with statutory rape in Rankin County, officials said. Sheral Smith, 37, was arrested Sept. 17 and is free on a $50,000 bond, Rankin County District Attorney Michael Guest said. The charges surround an incident involving a 14-year-old boy who Smith met at the school, Guest said. The incident allegedly happened a few weeks ago at Smith's Rankin County home, Guest said. - Read the entire article here
HOLLY, Michigan -- A former Holly High School vocal music teacher was arraigned on felony sex charges Tuesday after she allegedly had sex with two students at her home and the high school.Ranee Sue Proper, 41, is charged with five counts of criminal sexual conduct third degree in District Court in Clarkston. - Read the entire article here
OHIO - A 26-year-old married teacher and housemother has pleaded guilty to three sex charges involving a 16-year-old boy who impregnated her while she was supposed to be supervising him in a Warren County group home.Carolynn Hatcher, formerly employed by the Mid-Western Children's Home in Pleasant Plain, pleaded guilty this morning in Warren County Common Pleas Court, Lebanon, to three charges of sexual battery.
From April 8 to May 8, while she was a teacher and house parent at the children's home, Hatcher, then 25, had sex with a boy "who was placed there because of abuse of the victim in his birth family in Butler County," Hutzel said. - Read the entire article here
BILOXI - A Biloxi teacher who resigned under the shadow of a sex-crime investigation involving a 15-year-old student has been indicted on multiple counts.A Harrison County grand jury has indicted Rebecca Dawn Bogard on charges of exploitation of a child, touching of a child for lustful purposes and statutory rape. She faces up to 65 years in prison if found guilty on all counts. - Read the entire article here
CANTON - A former Fairless middle-school teacher is headed to prison for having a sexual relationship with an underage teen.
Stark County Common Pleas Judge Richard D. Reinbold Jr. sentenced Kathryn Gill to four years in prison Monday, with the option of placing her on probation after six months.
"Why would she do such a thing?" the mother asked in the letter. She also questioned whether the sentence would be more severe if Gill was a man and the victim was a girl.
Reinbold said his sentence likely would be tougher in that scenario — given the factors of intimidation, size and strength — but the fact remained that Gill had to be punished for breaking the law and the trust that parents place in teachers. - Read the entire article here
PORT CLINTON -- Jurors took less than four hours to find ex-assistant Port Clinton High School coach Erin Baker not guilty of all 55 sex charges against her.
After a four-day trial, emotions ran high in the courtroom after Ottawa County Common Pleas Court Judge Paul Moon read the verdict. - Read the entire article here
HARRISONBURG - A former Turner Ashby High School student-teacher was found guilty Thursday of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and felony charges alleging she sexually abused a former student were certified to go before a grand jury.
Judge Marvin Hillsman convicted Ashley Esposito, 24, during a hearing in Rockingham County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. - Read the entire article here
FORT SMITH, Ark. -- A former Marble City teacher has been arrested after investigators claim she had sex with a 13-year-old male student.
Sequoyah County prosecutors said Stephanie Harris, 27, turned herself in to police after learning that rape charges were filed against her. She is accused of having sex with the boy and sending him nude photos and text messages. - Read the entire article here
Meagan Belnap, 20, a temporary worker at Syringa Middle School in Caldwell, Idaho has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts of sexual abuse of a child.
Belnap reportedly worked as a “tracker”, a person that takes care of special needs students by following them around to class, reading to them and otherwise assisting them around school. - Read the entire article here
Laura Kirkland, 25, a fifth-grade teacher at Christian Schools of Springfield, in Springfield, Missouri has been arrested on charges of rape and sodomy of a now 11-year-old boy, who she baby sat and allegedly sexually abused for two years.
It is alleged that Kirkland had sexual intercourse and oral sex with the boy repeatedly for two years when the boy was between 8 to 10 years old. All the the alleged incident are said to have taken place in Kirkland’s home and when she was baby sitting the alleged victim. - Read the entire article here
Lori June Canady, 35, a former teacher’s aide in the Jennings, Oklahoma school system has pleaded guilty to the second-degree rape of a 15-year-old male student.
Canady admitted that she picked the boy up at his home on February 18th of this year and took him to a Tulsa shopping mall before they went to the Best Western motel in Sand Springs. - Read the entire article here
A former Arkansas band director has been sentenced to four years in prison for possession of more than 197 pictures of child pornography.
Forty-year-old Stacy Lynn Tucker of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was also sentenced Wednesday to 25 years of supervised release. A judge said Tucker also will undergo mental health counseling and treatment. - Read the entire article here
A school counselor accused of having sex with a student was in court Thursday. After several delays a preliminary exam for accused sex offender Carrie Denbow has finally begun.
She was a counselor at the Hill Academy in West Lansing from 2005 until 2007 when the alleged crimes took place. A former student testified today that back in early 2006 when he was just fifteen Denbow performed oral sex on him in her office at the school.
He also told Ingham County assistant prosecutor Guy Sweet that she went to a motel with him and two other students in February of 2006 to drink and have sex. The victim said, "Well, I asked her did she want to go get a hotel room and she said she had to think about it because she was kind of scary about messing around with me cause I was so young and she said she had to think about it. And at the end of the day I asked her again and she said yes." - Read the entire article here
Stephanie Kay Bellino, 39, an attendance clerk and in-school suspension and detention supervisor at Fremont Middle School, in Florence, Colorado has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. The alleged victim is a 13-year-old boy who is a former student at Fremont Middle School. - Read the entire article here
Twenty-four-year-old Erica Baker, of Corry, pleaded guilty to one count of corruption of a minor Wednesday in Erie County Court. In exchange, two other corruption charges were dropped and she agreed to give up her teaching license.
Authorities say Baker had a consensual sexual relationship with the 16 year old last summer. The two met while Baker was a student teacher at Strong Vincent High School during the 2006-2007 school year. - Read the entire article here
A judge sentenced former teacher Cathy Heminghaus to six years in prison this morning for performing sex acts on teenage students at Ferguson Middle School in the fall of 2005.
The jury convicted Heminghaus of three counts of statutory sodomy, two counts of a teacher having sex with a student and two misdemeanor counts of plying minors with alcohol. It acquitted her of 18 counts.
Defense attorney Susan Roach said Heminghaus wasn't the perpetrator, she was the victim in the case. - Read the entire article here
Heminghaus testified that the teens forced her to sit in a back seat that folded down into the trunk, put her coat on top of her, played music as loudly as they could and drove for hours around north St. Louis County. Heminghaus testified that this happened about 15 times. She also said that she would hide in the trunk of the car in order that she would not have to perform sex acts when the boys stopped the car to visit friends.
The four alleged victims, who were 13 to 16-years-old at the time, testified that Heminghaus was the originator of the plan and willingly performed sex acts on them at the school, in her car and at a park. - Read the entire article here
A former county teacher arrested for alleged sexual acts with a student has been charged again, after police stopped a vehicle occupied by the woman and the same underage boy during an early-morning driver’s license checkpoint this weekend.
According to reports by Clinton police, the 15-year-old Hispanic male was behind the wheel of a blue Ford Explorer and the woman, Jeannie Michelle Hodges of 12237 Dunn Road, Autryville, was in the passenger seat. The vehicle was stopped just after midnight Friday, while traveling on Main Street in the city square, according to reports.
Hodges, a former teacher with Hobbton Middle School, was arrested in July on charges of statutory rape, sexual offense with a student and contributing to the delinquency of a minor following a weeks-long investigation by the Sampson County Sheriff’s Office. - Read the entire article here
An East Henderson High School teacher arrested and charged in May 2007 with one felony count of sex offense with a student was sentenced to three years of probation.
Health science teacher Julie Miller Culbertson, 38, of 1200 Davis Mountain Road, was arrested by Henderson County Sheriff’s Office detectives at the central offices of the Henderson County school system in May 2007.
Resident Superior Court Judge Mark Powell allowed the victim’s father to address the court about the incident. “It’s a shame that in my 24 years in law enforcement I have protected strangers, and I couldn’t even protect my own daughter,” he said while sobbing. - Read the entire article here
A former teacher for the Benton Harbor school district who was arrested last month on assault charges has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and a year's probation.
31 year-old Carlye Bushen was arrested August 25th when she allegedly attacked a Child Protective Services worker who had gone to her Baroda home to investigate a matter related to her son. She pleaded guilty last week...and as a term of her probation, she'll have to take anger counseling, and pay about eleven-hundred dollars in fines and fees - Read the entire article here
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