A Houston area 9th grade business teacher has been charged with having an “improper relationship” with a 15-year-old former student. Helen Page, 49, reportedly admitted the relationship to police and told them, “This was a huge mistake, and I didn’t mean to do it,” according to court documents seen by KTRK. Documents say the Aldine …
A former Texas teacher is facing criminal charges after a young boy apparently contacted authorities and claimed she had been sexually abusing him for years. Fox 26 reports that 31-year-old Marka Lee Bodine, who taught middle school students at Tomball Intermediate School, was arrested Saturday and charged with “continuous sexual abuse of a child under …
A Texas middle-school teacher has been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography and sexual performance by a child. According to ABC-13, at least one of the alleged victims is a current or former student of Tyler Hardy-Croskey’s. Court documents obtained by the news station show that Hardy-Croskey, 25, was arrested on April 15 and …
A Florida teacher accused of carrying out a two-year inappropriate relationship with a minor student has been arrested again for a similar incident. CBS Miami reported that 35-year-old Hayley Close-Hallmark was first arrested in February for “lewd and lascivious conduct with a student by an authority figure.” The victim, according to police, was a ninth-grade …
A New York elementary school teacher was criminally charged on Wednesday with sexually abusing at least nine students over the span of four years. Northwood Elementary School principal Kirk Ashton, 51, is accused of abusing boys, between the ages of eight and 12, while on school grounds and during school hours. The Rochester Democrat and …
A former high school teacher in New Mexico has confessed to having a sexual relationship with an eighth-grade student. William Shelly, 61, an ex-band director at Muleshoe High School, is expected to formally plead guilty to enticement and attempted enticement of a minor. Shelly had an illicit sexual relationship with a female student who was …
A former Mississippi high school teacher has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and must register as a sex offender after she had a sexual relationship with a student, WLBT-TV reports. Amber Turnage, now 42, was convicted in March of two counts of sexual battery. The charges stem from a 2017 investigation that found the …
A veteran Florida teacher was arrested Friday, accused of sexually abusing at least three minor students over several years. Police said they began investigating 41-year-old Hialeah Senior High School teacher Jeanette Valle-Tejeda, who has been with the Miami-Dade County school system for 20 years, when one of her alleged victims told the principal at the …
An ex-teacher in Alabama admitted in court on Monday to having sex with two teen students. Decatur Daily reported that Carrie Witt, 46, pleaded guilty to engaging in a sex act with a student younger than 19. Witt, a Decatur High School teacher, was arrested in March 2016 for having a sexual relationship with a …
A former elementary school teacher in New Jersey was arrested on Sunday amid allegations he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old student and showed her pornography. The Monmouth County prosecutor said in a statement that Gustavo Barrientos, 53, was working as an elementary school teacher when he assaulted the victim on multiple instances. Authorities have not disclosed …
A Florida middle school teacher was arrested on Saturday after a verbal altercation involving her child reportedly escalated to the point she assaulted two juveniles. Bartow Middle School teacher Liquindella Clark was charged with felony child abuse without great bodily harm for an incident that unfolded after Friday’s basketball game at Bartow High School. Two …
