A former Ohio high school teacher who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two students was sentenced this week to two years in prison, followed by five years on post-release control, Cleveland.com reports. Laura Dunker, 31, pleaded guilty last November to two counts of sexual batter after prosecutors dropped four other sexual battery charges and one …
An Arkansas home school teacher was sentenced on Monday to four months in jail for sexually assaulting her student, a 17-year-old girl, last year. Alisa Andrews, 52, was arrested in October after a pastor reported that a parent told him Andrews was in a secret relationship with a student. The affidavit reportedly stated that the …
A Florida couple were arrested last week for repeatedly providing their 17-year-old babysitter with marijuana and alcohol over the course of two years. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced in a news release that Adam Thayer, 38, and Misty Mitchell-Thayer, 37, were arrested on child neglect charges on Thursday and Friday, respectively. Police’s investigation began …
A former principal in Kentucky who is serving a nine-year federal prison sentence was ordered last week to pay $3.6 million for confiscating students’ phones and uploading their nude photos to the internet. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, six accusers named ex-LaRue County High School principal Stephen Goodlett, 40, and the LaRue County School District …
An Ohio woman who formerly worked as a teacher in Washington, D.C., was arrested Friday for sexually abusing a boy from 2009 to 2014, starting when he was 14. According to WLJA, a mandated reporter at Two Rivers Public Charter School alerted authorities last year to the relationship between Joan Meyer, 45, and the victim, …
Two former high school softball coaches from Ohio will head to trial for an alleged child custody plot that resulted in a man’s murder in January. According to WHIO, ex-head coach Esther Stephen 29, is set to stand trial on March 15 while former assistant coach Shelby Hiestand, 31, has a trial that is scheduled …
An alleged sexual assault victim is opening up publicly after his high school teacher reportedly assaulted him numerous times. Fox 2 Detroit reports that Ryan Crue was in his junior year at Lake Orion High School in Lake Orion when a popular teacher, 28-year-old Kate Boozer, allegedly started showing interest in him. Crue reportedly said …
A former Utah middle school teacher is facing charges after police say he snuck a young girl into his classroom to have an emotional relationship with and possible sexual contact. KJZZ reports that Lucas Talley, 38, was arrested Friday and booked on two counts of kidnapping. Last week, he resigned from his teaching position at …
A 75-year-old North Carolina man has been charged with sexually assaulting children as far back as 1975, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Fredrick Hammontree was initially arrested last December in Morehead City for sexual battery, prompting a woman to come forward and say that Hammontree, a member of her family, had sexually abused …
A British physical education teacher has been banished from school after she drunkenly flashed her breasts at students during a school prom, the Eastern Daily Press reports. The United Kingdom’s Teaching Regulation Agency recently recommended that 44-year-old Katherine Lake be barred from the classroom because of the June 2019 incident. The newspaper reports that Lake drank numerous …
A former teacher in Pennsylvania admitted Tuesday to repeatedly sexually abusing a 13-year-old student. Rochelle Cressman, 33, agreed to plead guilty in a Crawford County court to three counts of statutory sexual assault. State police said Cressman was a Titusville Middle School gym teacher when she initiated sexual contact with the male student, according to …
A former substitute teacher in an east Alabama county pleaded guilty this week to three counts of performing a sex act or deviant sex act with a student, the St Clair Times reported. Whitley Mizzell, 32, appeared in court in St Clair County, northeast of Birmingham, on Monday and entered her pleas. Circuit Court Judge …
