A former Missouri teacher who was charged with having sex with a student will no longer face prosecution since she married the student. According to the Joplin Globe, 26-year-old Baylee A. Turner was 23 when she was charged with having sex with a male student who attended Sarcoxie High School in Joplin. Joplin was teaching …
A Michigan art teacher has been criminally charged after she allegedly left threatening notes around her middle school, raising alarm amid heightened fears of school violence, WXYZ-TV reports. Authorities say 59-year-old Johnna Rhone on Friday placed hand-written notes under the doors of a classroom, library and media center at Jefferson Middle School in St. Clair …
A Florida teacher who is reportedly pregnant was arrested on Thursday for allegedly abusing a 15-year-old ex-student. Heiry Calvi, 41, taught the victim at John I. Smith K-8 Center in Doral, where she worked prior to her arrest. WSVN reports that Miami-Dade Schools Police first learned of the allegations in March, after students told school …
A Florida teacher was arrested on Monday for allegedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old former student multiple times in a two-month period. Hialeah Middle School drama teacher Brittiny Lopez-Murray, 31, was accused of having sex with the boy in her car on numerous instances, starting in August. The boy’s father got involved after the teen’s sister …
An Arizona science teacher was arrested this week after a former student told police she had a relationship with him while she was under age. The woman told Phoenix Police that she began a relationship with George Cardenas, then 25, in February 2012 when she was 16 and in her junior year at North High …
A Pennsylvania teacher’s aide accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student arranged a meeting with the boy on Sunday and then shot and killed herself when officers arrived for a well-being check. Jennilynne M. Derolf, 38, was arraigned in Bucks County on July 15 on charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse on a person less …
A former Colorado assistant principal was found dead Saturday, two days after his arrest on dozens of charges that he sexually abused a student while he was teaching in Arkansas. Randall Mealer, 56, was charged with 50 counts of first degree sexual assault when he was arrested in Boone County, Arkansas, on Thursday, KRDO reported. …
An ex-teacher in Alabama who was arrested in 2016 for having sex with two teen students received a 10-year sentence on Thursday. The Decatur Daily reported that Carrie Witt’s sentence will entail her serving 18 months in the Department of Corrections and 18 months in a community corrections program before she completes the remainder of …
A high school teacher in Texas was criminally charged on Thursday with sexually abusing a 16-year-old student on at least two instances. KTRK reported that on June 8, C.E. King High School teacher Katrina Maxwell, 32, attended an administrative meeting in which she admitted to sexually assaulting the victim twice in the backseat of her …
An Alabama teacher charged last week with having sex with students was found dead Saturday morning from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Leslie Gillespie, 44, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19 and one count each of rape …
A former high school teacher in Virginia admitted in court on Monday to taking inappropriate pictures of dozens of his students in addition to possessing thousands of images depicting child pornography and other lewd behavior. Prosecutors said former Herndon High School drama teacher Raphael Schklowsky, 38, used his iPhone to secretly snap upskirt photos of …
A Las Vegas biology teacher accused of having sex with a student changed the girl’s quiz grade from an F to an A after an investigation into their relationship began last year. Lawrence Artl, 37, was arrested last week, charged by Clark County School District police with one count of an employee engaging in a …
