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Street fair features nudity, despite police ‘warnings’
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A sex party in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district is maintaining its XXX-rated character – with full nudity and public sex acts – despite promises from police that they would not allow participants to violate the various indecent exposure laws that are on the books.
A report from Americans for Truth About Homosexuality documented this year’s results at the city’s Up Your Alley street fair just days ago.
The San Francisco homosexual newspaper Bay Area Reporter had documented about three months ago San Francisco police promises to restrict public sex acts. They warned organizers if they do not control participants, the future of the festivities would be in doubt.
According to the report the promise from police came after two people filed multiple complaints with the city’s Office of Citizen Complaints against more than a dozen officers assigned to the 2008 event.
The complaints raised questions about the officers’ refusal to cite those who violated city laws by appearing nude and participating in public sex acts.
One website called Zombietime previously published a series of disturbing, explicit photographs of the events on San Francisco’s streets.
Americans for Truth, run by Peter LaBarbera, also has documented the situations previously.
 San Francisco street fair participant (Photo by Americans for Truth) |
So this year, LaBarbera, accompanied by a volunteer, visited the “Up Your Alley” event.
“Men walked around in full frontal nudity and even engaged in oral sex acts on the streets of San Francisco at a sadomasochistic street fair here Sunday – belying reports that police and city authorities would crack down on public nudity and lewdness,” he reported.
A volunteer, “Ron,” with the St. Joseph’s Men Society, took pictures of the event, he said.
“Ron’s photos show that despite the reports that anti-nudity and -lewdness laws would be strictly enforced at this year’s Up Your Alley street fair, they were not,” LaBarbera’s report said.
According to the volunteer photographer, who has documented the last two Up Your Alley events, “Last year, police were patrolling the UYA street fair. I encountered several police that were walking past men masturbating and exposing themselves, many completely nude. I asked the police why they were not enforcing the law. One policeman stated they were there to protect the attendees, not to enforce the laws, and were passive for political reasons. Another said that as long as the fair attendees were inside the fair they could do whatever they wanted – yet at that time I could clearly see nudity from across the street.”
“This year, I did not see one policeman patrolling inside the fair. I did see several police talking amongst themselves at one entrance as though they were at a cocktail party. There was no attempt to patrol or enforce the laws against public nudity, sex and drug-use. One policeman told me that they were on ‘fixed posts.’ I did see one guy with a ‘Folsom Security’ vest wearing a skirt patrolling the area doing what the police were doing last year: nothing,” he said.
This happened even though posted signs said, “Lewd behavior is illegal and will be interrupted.”
Janeane Garofalo Says GOPers Are A**holes and Sarah Palin Is ‘Small-minded”
By Lynn Davidson
Are you a conservative? Then you’re a d***, and there’s something wrong with your brain. At least that’s what “24″ actress and comedienne Janeane Garofalo believes.
According to the former Air America radio host, a conservative starts out an “a**hole,” and the politics come later. She asserted, “The reason a person is a conservative republican (sic) is because something is wrong with them...It really is neuroscience.”
In this February 12 interview with the environmentalist celebrity blog Ecorazzi, Garofalo also claimed the “irrational” emotion center of the brain, the limbic system, is what creates conservatives (text reformatted, profanity edited, all bold mine):
The reason a person is a conservative republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that’s science – that’s neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican. It’s counter-intuitive. And they revel in their anti-intellectualism. They revel in their cruelty.
I don’t know if you heard me talking to Jenny a while ago, but I was saying that first you have to be an a**hole and then comes the conservatism. You gotta be a d*** to cleave onto their ideology…
Sarah Palin didn’t escape Garofalo’s ire either. She said Palin is “small-minded and mean-spirited” and “is what the Republican Party has become: obstructionist, contrarians, small-minded, all of these things (sic).”
Garofalo raved that “[t]here’s definitely something wrong” with Palin, and she’s successful with some Americans “because she represents that lesser segment of the country. It’s about people’s lesser nature…”
Ecorazzi then dangled some bait:
E: I think it’s safe to say [Palin's] done some pretty nutty things.
JG: It’s not even nutty. It really is neuroscience. I truly believe that it has something to do with their limbic brain. I really believe that some people’s limbic brain dominates more than others. Our limbic brain controls all our emotions and it causes us to be irrational. Our limbic brain goes into action when we’re ecstatic, frightened, when we’re having sex. I really believe that if a neuroscientist examined the brain of somebody who identified as a conservative, they would find it’s wired differently.
Maybe a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who is fond of angry, vitriolic outbursts should take a look at the limbic system in her own brain for the excessive emotion and fright that she attributes to the right.
Garofalo also attacked Republican beliefs from Ronald Reagan forward, railing, “Their policies have destroyed us and most of the world–that’s a fact not an opinion.” She was baffled that “conservative republicans” (sic) (her sneer quotes) are allowed to participate in politics, asking “why do they still get a say?“
That certainly isn’t very inclusive. She also seemed a little confused about the difference between fact and opinion.
When discussing politics and neuroscience, perhaps Garofalo was referring to several questionable studies that tried to link political beliefs to the brain or childhood, or perhaps she was just projecting her own personal demons onto conservatives.
One thing is for sure-she didn’t get the message from the left that we are all supposed to put politics aside and come together for the good of the country. How “obstructionist,” “contrarian[]” and “small-minded.
Fake ministry e-mails push Christians toward porn
FROM WND
A cyber war has been launched on Ted Baehr’s MOVIEGUIDE®, which with its sister organization the Christian Film & Television Commission, advocates throughout Hollywood for clean movies.
Baehr told WND that he’s gotten a series of reports about e-mails being distributed, or blog comments being posted, that purport to be from him or his organization. But they provide links to pornography, including homosexual sites.
Baehr, who also serves as a columnist for WND, said he’s asking anyone who sees such activity to report it.
“This is a criminal attack on our ministry,” he said.
“We are looking at legal and criminal action,” Baehr said. “But, in the meantime, we urgently ask all of our partners and supporters to please pray that no one will be fooled by these attacks and that the attacks will stop.”
He said the FBI and police have been contacted, and investigators already are tracking computer address of the unit used.
He told WND the attack might be related to his public statements in favor of California’s Proposition 8, which allowed voters on Nov. 4 to adopt a state constitutional amendment that limits marriage to couples of one man and one woman.
He reported that other Christian groups and churches also have experienced “vicious attacks and hate mail” from supporters of the homosexual lifestyle. The state Supreme Court in April ruled that same-sex duos could be “married” in the state, but the vote of the people on Nov. 4 overturned that.
MOVIEGUIDE® and the Christian Film & Television Commission are dedicated to “redeeming the values of the entertainment industry according to biblical values by influencing industry executives and by informing and equipping the public about the influence of the entertainment media.”
Thus, it would be a target for “the leftist extremists [who] have staged angry demonstrations outside and inside churches and businesses, begun boycotts and even forced artistic leaders to resign from their posts,” the MOVIEGUIDE organization said earlier.
“Sadly, no one in the mass media is speaking out against these vicious blacklists and boycotts,” Baehr said. “Apparently, blacklists and boycotts against anti-American communists in Hollywood are bad, but blacklists and boycotts against Christians, Mormons and conservatives are welcomed.”
“Homosexual activists like to complain about hatred toward homosexuals, but their hatred of Bible-believing Christians is palpably disgusting,” he said.
He said the attack on his ministry is “a concerted effort at slander, libel, identity theft and harassment.”
Meet the god of debauchery
FROM WND
Sex-saturated Bacchanalia boiling up from underworld
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed (Luke 17:28-30).
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Whether it is the recent sexpidemic of teachers seducing students, the growing pansexual hedonism of Burning Man-like festivals worldwide, the flood of overtly sexual content on television and the big screen, the casual intimate ‘hook-ups’ of modern college kids, or the deviant sex acts celebrated by people parading fully nude on public streets in broad daylight, something has been lost between the innocent days of the Great Generation’s public standards and the rapid erosion of contemporary decency.
Now, a researcher and author whose new book has skyrocketed up best-seller’s lists warns that the growing trend of hedonism may be supernaturally motivated.
In “Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers,” Thomas Horn ties moral abandonment to an ancient spirit, known in antiquity as the Greek god Dionysus (Roman Bacchus) who represented the personification of unrestrained sexuality.
“Followers of Dionysus imagined him as the presence that is otherwise defined within man as the craving that longs to ‘let itself go’ and to ‘give itself over’ to outlaw desires,” says Horn. “What puritans might resist as the lustful wants of the carnal man or the temptations of the Devil, the followers of Dionysus embraced as the incarnate power that would, in the afterlife, liberate man’s soul from the constraints of the present world and from customs which sought to define respectability through obedience to moral law.”
According to Horn, worshippers of Dionysus attempted to bring themselves into union with the god through ritual casting off of the bonds of sexual denial and primal constraint by seeking to attain a “higher state of ecstasy.”
The uninhibited rituals of ecstasy (Greek for “outside the body”) employed lascivious behavior, ecstatic communal dancing to the drums and flute, flicking of the head backward (as found in most trance inducing cults), and overt consumption of wine to bring the followers of Dionysus into a supernatural condition which enabled them to escape the temporary limitations of the body and mind and to achieve an orgiastic state of “enthousiasmos”, or “outside the body and inside the god.”
In this sense, Dionysus represented a dichotomy in the Greek religion, as the primary maxim of the Greek culture was one of moderation; “nothing too extreme.” Yet Dionysus embodied the absolute extreme in that he sought to inflame the forbidden passions of human desire.
“As students of psychology will understand,” Horn continues, “the willful abandonment of social restraints, which defined Dionysus-worship, actually gave the god of wine and revelry a stronger allure, not weaker, among many ancients who otherwise tried in so many ways to suppress and control the secret lusts of the human heart. Dionysus was a craving that demanded one partake of ‘the forbidden fruit’ and who threatened madness upon those who denied him free expression. Conversely, persons giving themselves over to the will of Dionysus were promised the lie of unlimited psychological and physical delights.”
In Nephilim Stargates, Horn records how the Dionystic idea of mental disease resulting from suppression of secret inner desires, especially aberrant sexual desires, was later reflected in the teachings of Sigmund Freud. Freudianism is therefore the grandchild of the cult of Dionysus, Horn concludes.
Such mythical systems of mental punishment and physical rewards based on resistance and/or submission to Dionysus were symbolically and literally illustrated in the cult rituals of the Bacchae, as the Bacchae women (married and unmarried Greek women had the legal right to participate in the mysteries of Dionysus) migrated in frenzied hillside groups, dressed transvestite in fawn skins and accompanied by screaming, music, dancing, and omnisexual behavior.
When for instance a baby animal was too young and lacking in instinct to sense the danger and run away from the revelers, it was picked up and suckled by bare-breasted women who participated in the hillside rituals. Yet when older animals sought to escape the marauding Bacchae, they were considered “resistant” to the will of Dionysus and were torn apart and eaten alive as a part of the fevered ritual.
Horn points to parallels of this condition in today’s United States. “What at one time would have been unthinkable – deviant sex acts conducted openly in major U.S. cities – is become acceptable, while ‘resisters’ of the new Dionysian cult are increasingly labeled enemies of free expression and threatened with hate-crime legislation.”
Before the ancient Greek/Roman festival was outlawed in 186 BC by a decree of the Senate – the so-called “Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus”-as having become too debauched, human participants were increasingly subject to public orgiastic extremes, as the rule of the Bacchanalia became “anything goes,” including public sex acts, S&M type torture, bestiality, and even pedophilia.
According to Horn, the devil was literally in the details, and the tempter was seeking souls for destruction.
“The Hebrew people considered Hades – the Greek god of the underworld – to be equal with Hell and/or the Devil, and many ancients likewise saw no difference between Hades, in this sense the Devil, and Dionysus. Euripedes echoed this sentiment in the Hecuba, and referred to the followers of Dionysus as the ‘Bacchants of Hades.’ Heraclitus agreed, writing that, ‘Hades and Dionysus, for whom they go mad and rage, are one and the same.’”
Horn wonders if the ‘god’ Dionysus, a spirit historically identified with Satan, is rising from the underworld in modern Bacchanalian eroticism. “Is a psychological or supernatural force behind the growing flood of debauchery? Are we seeing evil supernaturalism in the birth pangs of a new occult Dionysianism?”
‘Bill Ayers forced me to have sex’ with roommate
FROM WND
Woman speaking out to counter reports excusing behavior of ex-domestic terrorist
JERUSALEM – Speaking out as William Ayers becomes an increasingly controversial figure in the presidential campaign, a woman charges the former Weather Underground radical locked her in his attic apartment when both were college students and intimidated her into having sex with his brother and his black roommate.
The woman, Donna Ron, told WND Ayers declared to her during the 1965 incident at the University of Michigan that if she didn’t sleep with his roommate, it would mean she was a bigot and a racist.
“I was terrified. People underestimate terrorism by psychological intimidation. I felt like I was being held prisoner,” recalled Ron, an American who now resides in Israel.
Ron told WND the alleged incident occurred during her freshmen year at the university, where she became attracted to anti-war activism. She had been friends with Ayers for about two months. Ayers later earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan.
Ron says she supports Sen. Barack Obama and hopes her charges don’t affect his bid for the White House. She’s involved in a socialist kibbutz movement in Israel.
Ayers did not return a WND request for comment.
Ayers helped form an education organization chaired by Obama, and the two later served on a non-profit board and appeared together at various speaking events. Obama launched his political career with a fundraiser at Ayers’ home in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, where Obama also lives.
Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has brought up Ayers on the campaign trail this week, charging Obama had been “palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s, including the U.S. Capitol in 1971. He told the New York Times in an interview released Sept. 11, 2001, “I don’t regret setting bombs.”
‘Young ideologues on the make’
Ron previously recounted the alleged incident in a column published in 2006 by FrontPageMag.com:
It was at the Undergraduate Library at the University of Michigan on a Friday night in November 1965. … Billy Ayers was standing on the first floor and started talking to me.
I thought he was cute. There seemed to be jovial kind of instant connection between us. … Despite the caution I’d learned about young ideologues on the make, I was charmed by Bill Ayers and by his savvy talk of politics and the children’s school he was involved with.
He asked me to go to a party with him and I did. I have a vague memory of the house where the party was and the people there. I think he got quite drunk and I suppose I drank too. I remember walking home with him. He was very open about himself and told me he was one of five children and that he was from Chicago and that his father was rich.
I felt comfortable with Bill. Throughout my life I had always had a friendly buddy-kind of connection with certain boys and felt that I was developing such a connection with him.
I remember going back to his attic apartment – he describes it in his book “Fugitive Days.” He had a roommate – a black man who was 23 and married with children. There was a couch, a table, a stereo and a sink in the room. There were two beds – Ayers’ and his roommate’s on each side of the attic wall. I slept with him there.
I came there a few times to talk and to listen to his LPs. I especially loved Glen Yarbrough’s album “Come Share My Life.” I met Bill’s roommate who also worked at the children’s school. I also met Bill’s younger brother Rick. Bill was a year older than I and his brother was a year younger. He spent a lot of time at Bill’s apartment.
What I do recall is that when I was getting ready to leave Ayers told me I couldn’t go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up.
At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him.
He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldn’t sleep with his married roommate because he was black – that I was a bigot. I had gone to school with black kids and had them as friends all my life. I couldn’t believe he was saying that to me.
I felt trapped. I had to get out of the situation I was in and because he was so effective a guilt-tripper, I also felt I had to prove to him that I wasn’t a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommate’s bed and put myself on it and he f—–d me.
Ron wrote that while having sex with Ayers’ roommate she “went totally out of my body,” a description commonly used by rape victims.
“I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger f— me angrily while I hated myself,” she wrote.
“After that I had to go lie down on Bill Ayer’s bed for his brother to screw me. Rick Ayers was a decent person, unlike his brother, and couldn’t go through with it. He started and stopped and let me go. I also thought I had to let Bill screw me but at that point he unbolted the door and I left.”
‘There was no way out’
Ron said she did not immediately report the incident, because she was in shock, and because in the 1960s the term date rape did not exist.
She said she felt like she was “psychologically raped” by Ayers.
“I felt like I was being held prisoner,” she told WND. “I remember sitting on the couch and he kept badgering me and stood over me. At the time, it was clear for me there was no way out if I didn’t do what he wanted me to do.”
She told WND her experience caused her enormous trauma and psychological suffering and that she has undergone years of therapy.
“One of my friends recently pointed out to me how the experience actually colored my life and caused me to do all sorts of things,” she said.
“What had happened affected my ability to trust in a relationship with a man, and I didn’t have a close relationship again for a long time,” said Ron.
Ron said she eventually moved to Israel, where she is now involved in non-profit resource and program development, and was not aware Ayers had reestablished himself as a respected teacher and leader in education in Chicago until he published his memoir, “Fugitive Days,” in 2001.
She said she was compelled to speak out this week only after reading multiple media reports she said attempted to excuse Ayers’ behavior during his Weathermen years.
“How could people accept him back into society as if he did nothing wrong? He may still be having a detrimental influence on people. I have many concerns about speaking out, but I think people need to know who Bill Ayers really is,” she told WND.
‘I feel we didn’t do enough’
Ayers, as WND has reported, was a key member of the Weathermen, a band of revolutionaries who declared war on the U.S. government and the free enterprise system during the 1970s, and has written about his involvement in bombing the New York City police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
He told the New York Times in an interview released Sept. 11, 2001, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” He posed for a photograph accompanying the piece that shows him stepping on an American flag.
Ayers last month wrote on his blog he still feels not enough was done to oppose the Vietnam War, although he clarified, “I don’t think violent resistance is necessarily the answer, but I do think opposition and refusal is imperative.”
Ayers’ wife, Bernadine Dohrn, also has served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the “most dangerous woman in America.” Ayers and Dohrn raised the son of Weathermen terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving a sentence for participating in a 1981 murder and robbery that left four people dead.
The charges against Ayers and Dohrn were dropped in 1974 because, as the New York Times reported, “it was ruled the government’s case was based on illegal wiretaps.”
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Ultimate taboo hits big screen: Sex with children
FROM WND
Family advocate calls for boycott of promotions for ‘pedophilia’
By Bob Unruh
“These despicable movies promote pedophilia, whether intentionally or unintentionally,” said Ted Baehr, who’s well known for his Christian Film & Television Commission work. “There should be a massive public outcry against them. The inclusion of children in sexually explicit films is inappropriate. There also is no excuse for the authorities to allow such material to be shown publicly.”
Baehr cited “Hounddog,” a movie featuring a scene portraying the rape of actress Dakota Fanning, filmed when she was 12, and “Towelhead,” which features 18-year-old actress Summer Bishil playing a 13-year-old Arab-American girl who portrays a “sexual obsession,” experiences “grooming” and other scenes.
“We’ve got to have communities rescue these children. Where’s the sense of shame, outrage, the sense of saying, ‘We’re not going to let this happen,” Baehr told WND. “We cannot do this anymore.”
“The thing we need to do is avoid it,” he said. “These people need to be stopped.”
 Dakota Fanning in the controversial “Hounddog” film that features a child-rape scene |
Baehr is joined in the boycott call by a pro-family organization in North Carolina, the state where much of the “Hounddog” movie featuring Fanning’s “rape” was filmed.
Under the headline “Child Pornography is Going Mainstream,” on the website of the Concerned Women for America, Donna Miller, a chapter leader in the Fayetteville, N.C., area and director of the No More Child Porn Campaign, also said those who are concerned by the film’s representation by Fanning of “a 9-year-old that is raped by a man in his late teens, after he tricks her into dancing naked,” should protest to authorities.
“Our concern is that this film would say to other children that this behavior is acceptable. As taxpayers here in North Carolina, we’re not happy about this,” Miller said.
She suggested several actions, including contacting U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and the Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, 20530 or 202-353-1555.
“Tell him that you have grave concerns that this film, with its visual representation of a child engaging in sexually suggestive behaviors and being sexually assaulted, opens the door for child pornography to be mainstreamed into the entertainment industry,” she suggested.
She said people also should contact their local theaters and ask them not to show the film, set for release tomorrow.
Miller said her group asked for an investigation into the production of the movie earlier this summer after learning North Carolina taxpayers contributed $387,000 to the film’s expenses.
“It’s shocking that the state of North Carolina paid almost $400,000 in taxpayer credits for this movie,” Baehr told WND. “I can’t imagine the people of North Carolina want to pay out of their hard-earned tax dollars during an economic downturn money for a 21-year-old man to rape a 12-year-old girl.”
Miller said she just wanted to make the public aware of the “mainstreaming of child pornography that is being achieved through the release of this movie.”
Deborah Kampmeier, writer and director, explained in the film’s press kit about Fanning, “She is simply and innocently experiencing and relishing the aliveness of her being, the life force pulsing through her body, celebrating the power and creative force of her sexuality that is her birthright.”
“This movie is about a nine-year-old girl, not an adult woman. She should be outside skipping rope or riding her bike, not ‘celebrating the power and creative force of her sexuality,’” Miller said.
Baehr was more direct.
“For this gruesome director who has wallowed in perversion to say this is the child exploring her sexuality is insane. It’s worse than insane. A child of that age doesn’t understand the consequences,” he said.
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The movie triggered a furor at the Sundance Festival last year because of the scene depicting a rape of Fanning.
Others who have raised objections to the movie have included, according to Miller, radio and TV host Sean Hannity, Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman and the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue.
Kampmeier already had a reputation for controversial scenes, depicting a young girl who is raped but doesn’t remember the attack and believes she is carrying the Christ child in her earlier work, “Virgin.”
Although there was little interest in the distribution of “Hounddog” initially, it eventually was picked up by Empire Film Group. Spokesman Dean Hamilton-Bornstein called it a “coming-of-age drama that deals with serious issues that should resonate with audiences.”
After its Sundance screening, Rex Gore, the district attorney in Bolivia, N.C., near where much of the movie was filmed, issued a statement to WND that he found “no violation” of the state’s obscenity or sexual exploitation laws.
He said the movie was saved by its “artistic value.”
“I am aware that there is an outcry from some who find the content of the film disturbing and distasteful. However, public opinion is not the test we must apply as prosecutors; we must apply the law. North Carolina’s child exploitation statutes do not apply because none of the acts depicted in the film meet the legal definition of ‘sexual activity’ under our current law,” Gore said at the time.
Baehr didn’t hesitate to respond.
“For the state attorney to even suggest that this was art is absolutely insane. He should take a course in art,” he said.
 Dakota Fanning appearing in “Charlotte’s Web” |
Carla Roberts, who runs the Yahweh Center Children’s Village for abused or neglected children in Wilmington, N.C., near where the filming took place, told WND at the time she would have to wonder about the adults responsible for putting a child in such a position.
The “Hounddog” script revealed the Fanning character’s clothes dropping to the floor before she sings and an assailant unzipping his jeans.
World Entertainment News Network was one of the first to comment on the scene, calling it a shocker for Fanning’s fans.
“She has shot child rape scenes and appears semi-naked,” the network said.
Fanning’s behavior has been described as more explicit than what was required of Jodie Foster, who as a 12-year-old played a prostitute in “Taxi Driver,” a 1976 Martin Scorsese production, or Brooke Shields, who was a New Orleans brothel worker in the “Pretty Baby” movie from 1978.
Baehr warned that unless the growing attack on those with faith and values is defeated, America soon will follow the course of other societies that have descended to the point of promoting sexual activity with children.
“We have to say, ‘No, we cannot have a society that is destroying children,’” he said.
“There are things that are happening today that are not as egregious as [in the days of] Nero and Caligula, but they are pushing the envelope in some ways even further,” Baehr said. “History says that it was before the days of Noah when [society] last saw something on this order.”
“Towelhead,” directed by Alan Ball, is about “a young Arab-American girl [who] struggles with her sexual obsession.” The character “navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening,” according to a promotional synopsis.
The Los Angeles Times’ review said the movie includes a “discomforting anatomical ‘grooming’ incident between Jasira and the mother’s sleazy boyfriend.”
Blogger Steven Pill said it appears that the public is making its statement already.
“I received a somewhat rueful message of congratulations from Eric Parkinson, the CEO of distribution for Empire Film Group,” he wrote recently. “According to him, more than 200 theaters across the country had cancelled their scheduled screenings of the motion picture ‘Hounddog,’ citing pressure from ‘vocal groups.’”
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The big list: Female teachers with students
FROM WND
Most comprehensive account on Internet of women predators on campus
Here is a list of the teacher ‘sexpidemic’ cases WND has documented where female teachers have been accused, or convicted, of assaulting students:
 Abbie Jane Swogger |
Abbie Jane Swogger, 34: Teacher’s aide at Highlands Senior High School in Harrison, Pa., was arrested Feb. 22, 2008, for renting a hotel room where police found beer, marijuana, an open condom wrapper and at least four teenage girls and boys, including several of her 15-year-old son’s friends. Though categorically denying rumors she was having sex with students from the school, Swogger was quoted as saying, “I was stupid, very stupid. I already know I was and I can understand you looking at me wrong. It’s the biggest mistake I ever made in my whole life.” Police allege Swogger “asked or encouraged” two 15-year-old runaway girls to have sex with her. According to a police papers, Swogger admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old boy and asked police, “How serious is that?” The one-time exotic dancer resigned Feb. 25, 2008. Swogger accepted a 3- to-6-year jail term that included a 36-year probation on May 26, 2009. “I’m sorry I was not the role model I should have been. I’m really sorry,” she told the judge.
 Abigail Holloway |
Abigail Holloway, 33 The former gym teacher at the Christian prep school, Kings Academy, in Sunnyvale, Calif., was arrested March 5, 2009, at St. Mary’s Academy in Englewood, Colorado, where she was working, on charges stemming from an alleged sexual relationship with a female student lasting from 2001 to 2005. The girl, now a student at Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash., told a school counselor about the relationship that had occurred in California beginning when she was 13. During that time, according to the girl, she and Holloway were intimate “over 100 times.” “We have a very special relationship. It is a gift from God,” states an alleged e-mail from Holloway to the girl in March 2003. “Not many people are going to understand that, but we know in our hearts that God made us for each other!” Holloway is fighting extradition.
 Adrienne Laflamme |
Adrianne Hockett: Accused of having sex with a 16-year-old special-needs student in a Houston apartment she rented for the get-togethers. The boy has testified the pair would “have sex, drink beer and smoke weed.”
Adrienne Laflamme, 60: Science teacher at the Brevard County Juvenile Detention Center in Cocoa, Fla., was arrested June 25, 2008, for having a four-week heated affair with an inmate student, 17, within days of his release. The boy’s mother said the teacher regularly picked him up from their home to have sex at her own residence. Laflamme had sex with the student at least 15 times, including one threesome with a 14-year-old boy. She has been charged with 15 counts of unlawful sex with minors and one count of filing a false police report.
 Alison Mosbeck |
Alison Mosbeck, 33: History teacher at Dueitt Middle School in the Spring, Texas, school district was arrested Oct. 26, 2007, for allegedly having intercourse at least three times with one of her students, a 14-year-old boy. The mother of one of the students’ friends saw text messages from Mosbeck on the student’s cellphone and alerted authorities.
 Alison Peck |
Alison Peck, 23: Former teacher at Greenfield High School in Greenfield, Mo., was charged May 22, 2009, in Green County with statuatory rape after convincing two friends to help her spend a night at a motel in Springfield with a 16-year-old boy who used to be her student. Peck had already been charged in Dade County on May 14 with having sexual relations with the boy at a park in that county sometime between January and March. On the day after receiving that citation, she arranged with friends to meet the boy at the Springfield motel. On May 17, she was charged with statuatory sodomy and statuatory rape because the boy told the detective that he had liaisons with Peck at her home in Mount Vernon. Judges have set bonds of $2,500 in Dade County, $10,000 in Lawrence County, and $200,000 in Greene County and Leo has been issued a no-contact order, told to stay 1,000 feet away from the boy’s home and school and to surrender her passport.
 Allenna Ward |
Allenna Ward, 24: Minister’s daughter from Laurens County, S.C., was a second-year teacher at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, S.C., when she was fired Feb. 28, 2007, for allegedly having sex with at least five boys. Some of the purported victims, ages 14 and 15, were students at Ward’s school. Authorities say the married woman had sex with the boys not only on campus, but also at a motel, in a park and behind a restaurant. On Sept. 6, 2007, Ward pleaded guilty to six charges – three second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and three lewd acts on a minor. “Today, I publicly admit my guilt and would like to apologize. I sincerely apologize for the effects of my actions,” she told the court. On Feb. 19, 2008, she was sentenced to six years in prison.
Amanda Louise Thompson, 28: Australian high school teacher accused of befriending a 14-year-old student upon learning the girl suffered from an eating disorder, then engaging the girl in a three-year lesbian relationship. On Oct. 27, 2008, prosecutors accused Thompson of meeting the girl at parks to engage in sex acts and abusing the student with everyday items such as a lollipop and a necklace. She reportedly showered the girl with gifts and notes, but the student’s parents grew suspicious when during sleepovers at the girl’s house, Thompson would refuse to keep the door to the girl’s bedroom open.
 Amanda Athey |
Amanda Athey, 27: Charged Aug. 8, 2007, in Huntersville, N.C. with three counts of indecent liberties with a female student and one count of sexual activity with a female student. The relationship came to light when the girl’s father became suspicious of the Hopewell High School English teacher’s friendship with his daughter. She had told the father she was married to a man named Cal but after her arrest, it came to light she lived with another woman named Callie.
Amber Jennings, 31: Though Jennings was initially charged with having sex with a 16-year-old, the counts against the Sturbridge, Mass., woman were reduced to a single charge of disseminating harmful materials to a minor. She reportedly admitted e-mailing naked photos of herself to a former student. She received no jail time, only two years of probation after pleading guilty in September 2005.
 Amber Marshall |
Amber Marshall, 23: Northwest Indiana woman allegedly had sexual contact, including intercourse, with several students at Hebron High School, and turned herself into authorities, telling police she knew what she did was illegal.
Amira Sa’Di, 30: Clayton County, Ga., math teacher at Mundy’s Mill High School was arrested and charged with sexual assault of a student in November 2005. She reportedly remarked she didn’t think her relationship was inappropriate based on her Internet research, learning Georgia’s age of consent is 16.
Amy Bramhall, 33: Education technician was arrested in January 2006 after a 15-year-old boy at the alternative education school in Warren, Maine, told police he had an ongoing sexual relationship with her. Flirting allegedly eventually led to an estimated 200 sexual encounters. In December 2006, she received three and half years in prison, with all but one year suspended, and four years probation.
 Amy Elder |
Amy Elder, 28: Ripley High School teacher and softball coach in Memphis, Tenn., was indicted June 4, 2008, on 15 counts, including rape and sexual assault, after allegedly having had sexual relations with two female students. “I’d heard rumors going around school that she’s seeing girls not guys,” said one student, “but it wasn’t none of my business.”
 Amy Lilley |
Amy Gail Lilley, 36: Inverness, Fla., woman and softball coach at Lecanto High School charged with a lesbian relationship with a 15-year-old girl. She received no prison time, being sentenced in January 2006 to two years of house arrest and eight more years of probation.
 Amy McElhenny |
Amy McElhenney, 25: Charged with having a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old male student, the 25-year-old Hebron High School Spanish teacher and former Miss Texas contestant will not be serving any jail time after a Denton County, Texas, grand jury refused to issue an indictment in September 2006. While the age of consent in Texas is 17 years, a state law bans sexual relationships between educators and students even if the student is of legal age and the relationship is consensual. She could have faced 20 years in prison if indicted and convicted.
 Amy Northcutt |
Amy Northcutt, 26: Former history teacher at Turlock Christian School in Turlock, Calif. was arrested on June 2, 2008, along with her husband, Justin Northcutt, 27, a substitute teacher at the same school, for sending erotic text messages to a 16-year-old female student and attempting to arrange group sex with her. Police were called in when the girl’s mother became suspicious of Mr. Nothcutt’s attention toward her daughter.
Andrea Fox, 33: German teacher at Easton Area High School in Palmer Township, Pa., submitted her resignation June 17, 2008, after reportedly being caught arranging a sexual rendezvous with a student. Sources said Fox was found by school officials in May 2008 accepting an invitation for sex from a 17-year-old student during an instant message chat on her school computer. A criminal investigation was underway with local police.
 Angela Christine Coffey |
Angela Christine Coffey, 34: Cheerleading coach and English teacher at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, Ga., gave birth to a baby girl in April 2007 following what police called a consensual relationship with a 17-year-old student. The former student declined to cooperate with prosecutors and has visited Coffey in jail since she pleaded guilty July 27 to sexual assault on a person in custody, jail records show. “It was only a crime because of the status of the victim – student-teacher,” Coffey’s attorney said.
 Angela Comer |
Angela Comer, 26: Middle-school teacher from Tompkinsville, Ky., fled with her alleged lover, her 14-year-old male student, before being tracked down in Mexico where she reportedly planned to marry the boy. Comer later claimed she was forced at gunpoint by the boy to go to Mexico. She was indicted in January 2006 for illegal sex acts with a minor and returned to Kentucky. Charges included felony custodial interference, two counts of third-degree sodomy and four counts of unlawful transaction with a minor relating to sexual acts. On May 9, 2007, Comer pleaded guilty to one-count of third-degree sodomy, and was slated to serve 10 years in prison as part of a plea agreement.
 “Angel” Lindle |
Angela “Angel” Simmons Lindle, 37: The Edgewood Middle School science teacher was arrested by Ninety Six, S.C., authorities on Feb. 20, 2009, following an investigation of allegations of a sexual relationship with a make student, 15. The boy, 14 at the time the relationship began, described numerous encounters with Lindle and, according to warrants, Lindle admitted to 7 charges. On March 21, 2009, while out on bail, Lindle was found dead in her home, apparantly from a self-inflicted gun shot.
 Angela Palmerl |
Angela Palmer, 20: Lunchtime monitor at Lasselle Elementary School in Riverside County, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of child molestation on June 10, 2008, after being caught in a compromising position in a parked vehicle with a 16-year-old female student by deputies checking suspicious activity. The incident occurred after summer break had begun. “If school was not over, we would pull her in and do an administrative leave,” said the school’s information officer
 Angela Stellwag |
Angela Stellwag, 24: Delran, N.J., woman accused of having sex in her apartment with a 14-year-old boy she met in school. She was charged with sexual assault for activity that allegedly took place in August 2004. She pleaded not guilty in August 2006.
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| Anna Bettencourt |
Anna Bettencourt, 38: The teacher at Bliss High School in Gooding County, Idaho, was arraigned on Feb. 18, 2009, on two counts of sexual battery of a minor child 16 years of age. Due to an undisclosed conflict of interest, the prosecuting attorney’s office will petition the court to appoint a special prosecutor.
 Anne Knopf |
Anne Knopf, 39: Former substitute teacher at Prescott Middle School in Wisconsin was charged Nov. 5, 2007, with sexual assault of a child under 16. She is accused of having a sexual relationship with the 13-year-old former boyfriend of her own daughter.
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| April Watson | Ashley Burkett |
April Watson, 33 and Ashley Burkett, 31 : Two Jay High School teachers in Jay, Fla., were arrested Aug. 6, 2009 on charges that they had sex in their homes with teenage boys in 2007. “The investigation was initiated on July 28, 2009 after an anonymous letter was sent to the Santa Rosa County School District alleging sexual relationships between two Jay High School teachers and male juveniles,” Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Scott Haines said. The alleged activity took place between July and Cotober 2007 at the two teachers’ residences. Burkett taught reading and special education students and was assistant volleyball coach last school year, according to the Jay High School web site. Watson taught math and was the advisor for the junior varsity cheerleaders, also according to the school web site. Watson was to be the varsity cheerleader sponsor for the upcoming school year and Burkett was to be the varsity volleyball coach.
 Ashley Flores |
Ashley Flores, 26: Former East Junior High teacher in Ponca City, Okla., was charged Oct. 1, 2008, with second-degree rape after prosecutors said she had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old former student over the summer. According to the court affidavit, Flores had sex with the boy at her home while her own children were there.
 Autumn Leathers |
Autumn Leathers, 24: English teacher at Mountain Ridge High School in Alleghany County, Md., was arrested Aug. 20, 2008, for allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of her 16-year-old students. Officers say they were contacted by a resident, who noticed the student at Leathers’ home several times in the late evening. Leathers was sentenced to five years of unsupervised probation on April 1, 2009. She was also required to register as a sex offender for her conviction on one count of fourth-degree sex offense. A one-year jail term was suspended during her court appearance. Leathers pleaded guilty to the crime in January. In return, the state dropped more serious charges, including child abuse and assault.
 Becci Hill |
Becci Hill, 31: Martinsville, Ind., counselor at Sanders School in Wayne Township arrested in 2006 for for sexual activity with a 15-year-old autistic boy. Prosecutors say what started as a mentor relationship turned into a sexual liaison that lasted a year. Hill would allegedly park her car down the street from the boy’s home, and he would climb out his window to meet her in the middle of the night. In January 2007, Hill pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct with a minor, and was given a two-year prison sentence and forced to register as a sex offender.
 Beth Ann Chester |
Beth Ann Chester, 27: Former Moon Area High School health and gym teacher in Pittsburgh was sentenced to 1 1/2 to 3 years in jail on Aug. 20, 2008, after pleading guilty to three charges stemming from the romantic relationship she had with a then-14-year-old boy. Chester, who was married, admitted to having sex with the boy numerous times, including once in the school parking lot. Her husband filed for divorce a month after her January 2008 arrest.
Beth Raymond, 31: Private-school employee from Pownal, Maine, charged with risk of injury to a minor and second-degree sexual assault of a juvenile male at Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, Conn. In July 2006, she was sentenced to 18 months prison.
Bethany Sherrill, 24: Daughter-in-law of school-board president charged with molesting a 15-year-old middle-school student. Reports state Sherill allegedly had oral sex with the boy and sent him coded text messages. She resigned her position at Jefferson Elementary School in Farmington, Mo., in February 2005 and eventually received 90 days in jail and two years probation, and was forced to register as a sex offender.
 Brandy Lynn Gonzales |
Brandy Lynn Gonzales, 27: The Houston-area teacher and her husband were arrested in December 2006 for sexually assaulting students at an elementary school two years earlier. Prosecutors allege that Gonzales met a student at a local movie theater, where she performed oral sex on the boy as well as another student at the theater. Husband Johnny Gonzales is also charged with having performed sex acts with one teen. Prosecutors told the judge they have sufficient evidence to file further charges.
 Brenda Baillargeon |
Brenda Baillargeon, 39: Teacher’s aide in the Amery School District of Polk County, Wis., charged in November 2007 with having sex with a 16-year-old male student. The illicit seven-month sexual relationship with the high-school student she tutored included road trips and sneaking into his home in the early-morning hours for sex, according to the criminal complaint. She was his first love, and they planned to be married after she got a divorce, court records stated.
 Cameo Patch |
Cameo Patch, 29: Substitute teacher at Tooele High School in Tooele, Utah, arrested for allegedly performing oral sex on a 17-year-old male student. The sexual activity was allegedly consensual, and reportedly took place off school grounds after the pair had exchanged phone numbers in a restaurant. In November 2006, Patch was sentenced to no jail time, despite comments from the judge that a man would have likely gone to prison.
 Carol Flannigan |
Carol Flannigan, 50: Boca Raton, Fla., music teacher reportedly slept with 11-year-old former student, and also had a simultaneous sexual relationship with the boy’s father. In a deposition, the boy’s father said he had the same sort of sexual relationship with Flannigan that ex-President Bill Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky. In February 2006, Flannigan was sentenced to five years prison as part of a plea deal.
 Carrie McCandless |
Carrie McCandless, 29: The former Colorado social-studies teacher, who also happens to be married to the principal, was charged in November 2006 with having had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student during an overnight school camping trip. The instructor, who also coached cheerleading, pleaded guilty April 24, 2007, to felonies of tampering with physical evidence and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of unlawful sexual contact with a minor. She was not expected to serve any jail time.
 Carrie O’Conner |
Carrie O’Conner, 33: Counselor at Montgomery County High School in Mount Vernon, Ga., arrested Aug. 13, 2007, for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old male student. The relationship is said to have lasted from January through July. According to police, the abuse was first reported in March 2007 to a teacher and a probation officer, but they were reportedly reluctant to inform the superintendent because O’Conner is the superintendent’s daughter.
 Cathy Heminghaus |
Cathy Heminghaus, 46: Special-education teacher from Ferguson, Mo., charged with statutory sodomy involving at least three of her students at Ferguson Middle School. She reportedly told friends she had performed oral sex on the children on several occasions in 2005. On July 9, 2007, she pleaded no contest Monday to 25 counts; 21 of them involving statutory sodomy.
Celeste Emerick, 32: Police in Huber Heights, Ohio, say the Wayne High School teacher hosted a party where students were shown pornography. Prosecutors charged her with one count of sexual battery, a felony in Ohio.
 Cris Morris |
Cris Morris, 30: The former teacher and track coach at Hurricane High School in St. George, Utah, was sentenced on May 15, 2008, to 30 days in jail for having sex with a male student. The mother of three’s relationship with the teen began after the then-17-year-old victim “approached her with admiration” in the summer of 2007 and she began texting him.
 Chrissy Hisey |
Crissy Hisey, 28: Sophomore English teacher at Vista Murrieta High School in Murrieta, Calif., arrested May 1, 2008, for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl at the school. “This started out as a friendship and then developed into a sexual relationship,” one detective said, noting it had been ongoing for several months. Hisey was charged with suspicion of lewd conduct with a minor, oral copulation with a minor, child molestation and sending harmful material to a child. Police said the “harmful material” involved photos and videos allegedly found on cell phones of both the teacher and the girl. The alleged sexual contact between Hisey and the girl reportedly happened both at the woman’s home and in Hisey’s classroom after school hours.
 Christel C. Gravlin |
Christel C. Gravlin, 33: The Lisbon High School teacher from St. Lawrence County, N.Y., was arraigned Dec. 10, 2007, on charges of rape 3rd degree, criminal sex act 3rd degree and endangering the welfare of a child after allegedly having intercourse with a 15-year-old male student. Allegations became known after an incident at a high school basketball game on Nov. 30 when Gravlin, a married mother of two and former beauty queen, made statements about an affair to a group of students and others who were sitting near her. On March 3, 2008, she pleaded guilty to a felony charge of third-degree rape, and on May 19, 2008, she apologized to the boy as she was sentenced to four months behind bars.
Christina Gallagher, 26: Jersey City, N.J., woman received no jail time, but was ordered to pay more than $1,000 in fines, sentenced to a lifetime registration as a convicted sex offender and ordered to attend therapy for having sex with a 17-year-old student in late 2004. The former Rahway High School instructor was banned from teaching and seeing the student with whom she had sex.
 Christina Oliver |
Christina Oliver, 24: Teacher at NcNair High School in Stockton, Calif., was arrested Feb. 10, 2009, on suspicion of having sex with a male student, 16. She was booked into San Joaquin County Jail on three charges involving child molest or annoyance, lewd or lascivious behavior with a minor, and contact with a minor for the purpose of committing an offense with the minor.
Christine Duda, 39: Teacher at the Normandy Alternative School in St. Louis County, Mo., allegedly took a 16-year-old hearing-impaired male student to her home for sex in December 2005. She was charged with two counts of felony statutory rape and fired by the school district.
Christine Scarlett, 36: English teacher at Strongsville High School in Ohio began a sexual relationship with the 17-year-old captain of the football team, Steven Bradigan, in November 2002 and eventually gave birth to Bradigan’s son. Scarlett was fired from her teaching job, but insists nothing improper happened during the time she was Bradigan’s teacher. She was never charged with any criminal wrongdoing.
 Christine Jouini |
Christine Brown Jouini, 38: The 11th and 12th-grade teacher at Center Academy in Coral Springs, Fla., was arrested June 6, 2008, after police learned she had been involved in a sexual relationship with one of her male students for more than a year. The boy said the relationship began when he was 16 years old and that he and Jouini had “sexual contact” more than 100 times.
 Christine McCallum |
Christine McCallum, 29: The former fifth-grade teacher at Woodsdale Elementary School in Abington, Mass., was arrested on June 8, 2008, after the father of a 16-year-old boy went to authorities with copies of letters McCallum, married, had written to the boy. According to charges, she is accused of having consensual sex over 300 times with the teen, beginning when he was 13. McCallum was a tutor for the alleged victim’s younger brother.
 Christine Spaich |
Christine Spaich, 28: Teacher and volleyball coach at Silverado Middle School in Roseville, Calif., arrested April 6, 2007, for alleged unlawful intercourse with a minor and other related charges. Police say Spaich had a six-month relationship with a 16-year-old boy identified as a former student at her school. Detectives said the relationship appeared to be consensual and that the boy was not forced. Spaich entered a “no contest” plea July 3, 2007, and was sentenced to four months in jail, four years probation and 400 hours of community service. An application for alternative sentencing could let the teacher avoid jail time altogether.
 Christy Anne Brown |
Christy Anne Brown, 33: English teacher at Cyprus High School in Magna, Utah, was arrested July 8, 2007, for allegedly having sex with one of her students, a boy of 16. A police officer found her in a parked car along with the boy, and told authorities she had been having relations with the juvenile for three months. “The suspect admits to having sex over 40 times. She also admitted to having oral sex with the juvenile at her home and also at work,” the jail report stated.
 Christy Martin |
Christy Martin, 32: The “Life Choices” teacher at Azalea Middle School in St. Petersburg, Fla., was arrested March 7, 2009, for exchanging pornographic pictures of genitals with a male student, 14, by camera cell phone. Martin was subsequently evicted from her apartment by her landlord.
 Claire Richards |
Claire Richards, 35:The math teacher at Jordan High School in Columbus, Ga., was arrested Dec. 19, 2008, following an investigation by police and Muscogee County School District officials into reports of an inappropriate relationship between her and a 16-year-old male student. The eight-year veteran of the district was charged with two counts of sexual assault on a person in custody, four counts of interference with custody and 17 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
 Crystal Wells |
Crystal Wells, 33: Teacher at Deming High School in northeastern Kentucky was sentenced to 5 years in prison April 14, 2008, for sex with a 15-year-old male student. She had been facing six counts of rape, but pleaded guilty to six felony charges of unlawful transaction with a minor. Family members reportedly found text messages on the boy’s phone and felt they were indicative of a sexual relationship. “I have to treat this the same as I would a male teacher and a female student,” Judge Robert McGinnis said. Wells’ attorney stated the woman’s marriage was falling apart and a divorce was pending.
 Cynthia Horvath |
Cynthia Horvath, 45: Former English teacher and cheer coach at Warner Christian Academy in South Daytona Beach, Fla. was arrested Oct. 22, 2008, on charges related to an ongoing sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student. Police reports say most of the senior class at the school knew there was something going on and it was finally students who told a staff member about the affair and the school told police. Horvath is married and has a 17-year-old son who attends Warner Christian.
 Danielle Jones |
Danielle Jones, 32: Sixth-grade teacher at Stambaugh Middle School in Auburndale, Fla., was arrested on June 5, 2008, on charges of having sex with four teenage boys, two of whom were her students. The woman had initiated the contact the previous summer by contacting her two previous students through their MySpace accounts, telling them she missed them and inviting them to her home.
 Darcie Esson |
Darcie Esson, 32: Parker, Colo., English teacher at Elizabeth High School was arrested in December 2006 for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old football player the day after her divorce was finalized. According to the arrest affidavit, Esson and the teen had sex on the floor of her hotel room while her two children, ages 4 and 8, and their 17-year-old babysitter slept on beds in the same room. Esson was charged with sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, a Class IV felony.
Dawn Welter, 38: Sumner, Wash., teacher at Tenino High School charged April 24, 2007, with second-degree sexual misconduct with a minor for allegedly spending the night with a 16-year-old girl at a motel. Charging papers state that on Feb. 17, Welter engaged in sexual contact with the teen.
 Deanna Bobo |
Deanna Bobo, 37: Special-education teacher at Raymond E. Wells Junior High School in Greenwood, Ark., allegedly had sex twice in 2005 with a 14-year-old boy in his own bed while his parents were not home. She denied the charge, but was convicted in September 2006 of two counts of first-degree sexual assault and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
 Deborah Reeder |
Deborah Reeder, 45: Substitute teacher from Coral Springs, Fla., arrested in December 2006, charged with having sex at least four times with a 17-year-old boy who was a friend of one of her own three children. The victim told police they had sex multiple times in her car, her bed, on the floor of her bedroom and in the master bedroom shower.
 Debra LaFave |
Debra LaFave, 25: Tampa, Fla., area teacher received no jail time despite having sex with her 14-year-old male student in a classroom and her Hillsborough County home. In another county, Marion, she was accused of having sex with the boy in an SUV. LaFave claimed at a March 2006 news conference she had a bipolar disorder. The boy’s father said LaFave should have received prison time in her plea deal, noting, “It’s a horrible, ugly thing that she’s done.”
Diane DeMartini-Scully, 45: Mattituck, N.Y., woman was the school psychologist at East Hampton Middle School on Long Island when she was accused of having sex with the 16-year-old boyfriend of her own 13-year-old daughter. She allegedly had intercourse and oral sex with the boy on a number of occasions in May 2005 in her home and car. She was arrested after allegedly secretly visiting her young paramour at his new home in North Carolina.
 Donna Washburne |
Donna Washburne, 47: Librarian assistant at Cheyenne High School, Las Vegas, Nev., was arrested July 26, 2009, on a charge of sexual misconduct with a student. She allegedly performed oral sex on a 17-year-old boy in the back seat of her car while in the school parking lot, according to the arresting school police officer who said he observed the incident. The police report said the boy told police Washburne had called him earlier in the day and asked if he wanted to hang out. Washburne told officers she thought the boy was 18-years-old.
 Elizabeth Livesay |
Elizabeth Livesay, 26: Special education teacher at Carson Junior High School in Mesa, Ariz., was arrested Nov. 17, 2008, on 11 charges she had sex with a 16-year-old girl on numerous occasions outside of school grounds. The 16-year-old is not her student and police believe that the girl has not been Livesay’s student in the past. She was put on paid leave of absence during the investigation.
 Elizabeth Miklosovic |
Elizabeth Miklosovic, 36: Grand Rapids, Mich., teacher at South Haven’s Baseline Middle School pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female student she “married” in a pagan ritual in June 2004. Miklosovic is also accused of touching the girl’s genitals while camping in public parks. She told the judge before sentencing, “The entire ordeal has been blown totally out of proportion for something that was innocent, kind and nurturing in nature.” She was sentenced to five to 25 years.
 Elizabeth Munn |
Elizabeth Munn, 32: Gloversville, N.Y., teacher was arrested for statuatory rape of an eighth-grade male student half her age after someone alerted police with a complaint. The social studies teacher, who had worked in the Broadalbin-Perth School District for more than five years, was considered a competent teacher and the news of her arrest was called a surprise by a district official. According to the Fulton County D.A., Munn admitted to being involved with the 15-year-old student over the summer but wouldn’t give any details.
 Elizabeth Stow |
Elizabeth Stow, 26: Tulare Western High School teacher from Fresno, Calif., area convicted of having sex with three of her students was sentenced in November 2005 to nine years prison, but the judge suspended that sentence and gave her one year, followed by five years of probation. She was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
Ellen Garfield, 43: Former student at Solomon Schecter School in Newton, Mass., said his music teacher took him into an empty classroom where she worked, partially disrobed, and coaxed him into having sex with her in 1998. Garfield was acquitted of all charges in September 2005.
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| Emily Elizabeth Housley |
Emily Elizabeth Housley, 29: Former math teacher at North Side High School in Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested at her mother’s home on July 10, 2009, for sexual assault on a child. The married mother of two had resigned earlier after being caught with a 16-year-old male student in a park late at night. According to police, the woman and her student had started flirting and exchanging text messages earlier in the year when he was still 15. The pair became sexually active after he turned 16, with encounters in her classroom after school hours, in her car, at her mother’s home, and at her home when her husband and children were away. After school let out for the summer, Housley met the teen at his Fort Worth house while he was alone. “She was going to a teacher conference that was near his house, and she was going over there on her lunch breaks and having sex with him,” a detective said.
Emily Morris, 28: Teacher at Leeds High School in St. Clair County, Ala., faced a possible 20-year sentence, but received one year in jail in December 2006 for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old student.
Erica Baker, 23: Teacher at Pfeiffer-Burleigh Elementary School in Erie County, Pa., charged Nov. 13, 2007, in connection with a lesbian relationship with a local teenage girl. Baker was just a student teacher in training at Strong Vincent High School when she originally met the female student. Police say the pair would drive to a parking lot at a campground to engage in sexual contact.
Erica Rutters, 29: Teacher at Oxford Christian Academy in New Oxford, Pa., allegedly wrote erotic messages to a 16-year-old student and had sexual intercourse with him four times in her apartment. She pleaded guilty to corruption of a minor, and received no jail time, just three years of probation in March 2006.
 Erica Umosella |
Erica Umosella, 28: This southern New Jersey high school physical education teacher was charged with three sex-related offenses, including first-degree aggravated sexual assault, in May 2007 after an alleged three-month relationship with a 17-year-old member of the girl’s field hockey team came to light in an anonymous letter to the principal. Umosella, who has been teaching at the school since 2003, was released from police custody after paying $50,000 in bail.
 Erin McLean |
Erin McLean, 30: Student teacher at West High School in Knoxville, Tenn., who became sexually involved with student Sean Powell in 2005. On March 10, 2006, police say McLean’s husband, using a shotgun, killed the 18-year-old boy as he sat in his car outside the McLean’s home. Eric McLean was charged in the boy’s death and is out on bail. Temporary custody of the couple’s children was awarded to the wife. Erin McLean subsequently was hired, under her maiden name, at a Christian school, but was dismissed after a parent complained of her attentions toward a 17-year-old boy. She disappeared in Sept. 2007 from Knoxville with her children, telling an uncle she was going to Califoria to meet someone she met on the Internet.
 Franca and Antonia Munoz-Juvera |
Franca and Antonia Munoz-Juvera, 26: These twin sisters – both teachers – were arrested in Southern California in December 2006 in connection with alleged lewd acts with an underage female student. Only Franca was charged with “unlawful contact” – Antonia was charged with being aware of the incident and failing to report it as required under California law. An 18-year-old female roommate was also arrested because she “facilitated the crime.” On June 6, 2008, Franca was sentenced to 240 days in jail. Antonia and the roomate were sentenced to 120 days in jail to be served on weekends.
 Gay Lyn Turley |
Gay Lyn Turley, 42: Mesa High School teacher and softball coach in Scottsdale, Ariz., was arrested on Dec. 19, 2007, after a 20-year-old woman who had lived with her told police of their sexual relationship that began when she was 16 and a student at Mesa. The relationship had soured between the pair earlier in the year.
Georgianne Harrell, 24: Teacher at Holley Elementary School in Sylvester, Ga., charged with performing oral sex on a 9-year-old boy in April 2005, allowing students to gaze down her blouse and slashing her wrists with glass in front of her students. Though she originally pleaded not guilty, she changed her plea to guilty just before trial, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for aggravated child molestation.
 Gina Marie Watring |
Gina Marie Watring, 40: Teacher’s assistant at Creekside Elementary in Durham, N.C., was arrested April 29, 2009, and charged with having sexual intercourse with a 10-year-old male student on at least two occasions. According to search warrants in the case, school administrators first became suspicious of Watring – who taught drama and dance at the school – after intercepting a note written by the boy. “Gina, I love you so much babe. I’m so lucky to have you. I’m glad you feel the same way. I want to be with you forever. I’d never do anything to hurt u,” it read. School officials said they found a cell phone in the child’s possession, and text messages between him and Watring. During questioning by detectives, the boy told them that he was in love with Watring and that they had had sex on two separate occasions in her home. Steve Monks, attorney for Watring, said his client is married with children, and is active in Sunday school at church. He said Watring is innocent and that the case stems from “the infatuation of a 10-year-old boy.”
 Gwen Cardozo |
Gwen Cardozo, 33: Teacher at Wasson High School in Colorado Springs, Colo., accused of having sex with a 17-year-old male student. Police charged her with sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, and Cardozo resigned her position in March 2005. She pleaded guilty in July 2005 and received a deferred sentence, meaning no jail time if she remains trouble-free for four years.
 Heather Lea Burroughs |
Heather Lea Burroughs, 23: Substitute teacher at Pahokee Middle-Senior High in Pahokee, Fla., arrested Jan. 22, 2007, for allegedly performing a sex act on a student in an empty classroom during school hours. Palm Beach County district officials did not release the student’s name, age or gender, but arrest records indicate the student was between 12 and 18. If convicted of the first-degree felony of sexual assault, Burroughs could face up to 30 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Heather Ingram, 30: Mathematics, science and business teacher at Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt, British Columbia, had sex with a 17-year-old student. The relationship cost Ingram her job and reportedly led to the breakup of her 12-year common-law marriage to a man four years her senior.
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| Heather Kennedy |
Heather Kennedy, 25: Popular math teacher and track coach at Wantagh High School on Long Island, N.Y, was arrested March 27, 2008, and charged with statutory rape. She was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old male student in the parking lot of a neighboring high school. One shocked student said, “I’m really shocked. She’s an amazing teacher. She’s willing to do anything with the students.” On July 22, 2008, while awaiting sentencing after having pleaded guilty, Kennedy was charged with having another five sexual trysts with the boy. “Almost immediately after she walked out of court, she was having contact with the victim by phone and in person,” Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said.
 Heather Thorsby |
Heather Thorsby, 34: Art teacher at Independence High School in Franklin, Tenn., indicted in November 2007 on seven counts, including three charges of statutory rape. Thorsby is accused of inappropriate behavior with a 17-year-old female student. The relationship reportedly began as a friendship, but turned sexual, with alleged contact at school and home. Thorsby was sentenced to three years in prison on July 28, 2008.
 Heather Lynne Zeo |
Heather Lynne Zeo, 37: The married math teacher from North Penn High School in Lansdale, Penn., was arrested May 21, 2009, for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student the previous month and leaving sexually explicit Internet and phone messages for another student earlier in the school year. Police report Zeo – a Christian singer who has released two CDs – admitted to the sexual relationship. The mother of three used Facebook to communicate with the boy about sexual acts the two were to perform on one another. As rumors of the relationship grew, Leo began meeting the boy for sex in her minivan at a Target store parking lot.
 Hope Jacoby |
Hope Jacoby, 23: The athletic trainer at Tustin High School in Orange County, Calif., was arrested Christmas Eve 2008 on suspicion of oral copulation of a minor and unlawful sex with a minor. Jacoby had worked with athletes at the school for the last year. “Even though the age gap may be fairly close, it’s still illegal and we will arrest,” a Sheriff’s Department spokesman said. On July 29, 2009, Jacoby was sentenced to three years of informal probation and 240 hours of community service for her crime.
Jacquelyn Faith Garrison, 19: Substitute teacher at South Central High School in Winterville, N.C., was indicted in January 2006 on charges she was having an improper relationship with a 15-year-old student. The case involves some 50 phone calls and text messages exchanged between Garrison and the boy, who reportedly became uncomfortable when things of a sexual nature came up.
 Jamie Armstrong |
Jamie Armstrong, 25: Science teacher at Tara High School in East Baton Rouge, La., was arrested in April 2007 for allegedly having sexual relations with a 16-year-old female student, including one occasion at the school. The girl was not in Armstrong’s class, but was tutored by her several times per week. According to a probable cause affidavit, the girl she told deputies she visited Armstrong at her residence on several occasions and had consensual sex with her at least three times, even spending the entire night with the instructor.
 Janelle Batkins |
Janelle Batkins, 42: French teacher at Roseville High School in Roseville, Mich., was arrested in September 2007 and charged with two counts of third degree criminal sexual conduct for a relationship with a 17-year-old student that had begun the previous December and lasted until June. The former “teacher of the year” resigned her position.
 Janelle Bird |
Janelle Marie Bird, 24: Accused of having a two-year affair with a 15-year-old student from East Hill Christian School, in Pensacola, Fla. Declaring her love for the boy, she was charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and two counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. Though Bird could have received 30 years upon conviction, she was sentenced in 2006 to two years in state prison.
 Janet Hughes |
Janet Hughes, 32: Viera, Fla., teacher at Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Fla., arrested April 23, 2007, after detectives found her in the company of a 16-year-old male student inside a van in a church parking lot. According to the arrest affidavit, Hughes, who is a wife and mother, admitted to engaging in sexual activity with the boy on at least one occasion.
 Janet Parker |
Janet Parker, 26: This East Texas teacher might have gotten way with her alleged sexual relationship with a male student if the teen hadn’t had a screensaver on his cell phone that featured a tobacco product. The woman had been investigated by authorities in late 2006 when suspicions were aroused, but nothing could be proved. The tobacco screensaver resulted in the phone being confiscated at school in May 2007 and other “inappropriate” images of Parker were discovered. A warrant revealed similar images on her own computer and she is now facing nearly two dozen charges.
 Jaymee Wallace |
Jaymee Wallace, 28: Basketball coach in Tampa, Fla., charged with having an 18-month lesbian relationship with a student. Authorities say the student, who was 15 when she met Wallace, voluntarily had sex with the coach more than 50 times, in a parking lot at Busch Gardens and often at Wallace’s own apartment while a fellow classmate was in an adjacent room. According to the police report, the sexual relationship reportedly began in early 2003, after the student received a note from Wallace saying she “found her attractive and wanted to know if she felt the same way.” On Dec. 5, 2007, Wallace was sentenced to three years of prison, followed by three years of sex offender probation.
 Jennifer Cisco |
Jennifer Cisco, 30: School nurse at Green Forest High School in Green Forest, Ark., arrested on Nov. 14, 2007, for a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student and providing two 17-year-old male students with beer. The school recently received a grant for $10,000 to start a school-based health clinic study. Cisco applied for the grant and the school was rather excited about getting the program off the ground.
 Jennifer Dempsey |
Jennifer Dempsey, 28: Spanish teacher at Oswego County High School, Syracuse, N.Y., was arrested March 25, 2008, for having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old male student. Dempsey had been suspended from teaching two months before after a parent complained of inappropriate electronic messages sent to “three of four” of her children.
 Jennifer Dorland |
Jennifer Dorland, 42: Grade 7 and 8 teacher at Rothwell-Osnabruck School, Ingleside, Ontario, was found guilty on Dec. 20, 2007, of sexual assault, invitation to sexual touching and sexual interference with a 13-year-old boy in September 2004. She admitted she had sent inappropriate e-mails to the former student, but denied she had engaged in a sexual relationship with the young male. “It was absolutely a terrible, horrible idea. I have been paying for that e-mail and conversation for two years,” she said.
 Jennifer Espinosa |
Jennifer Espinosa, 38: The Maine East High School teacher in Skokie, Ill., was arrested May 26, 2009, and accused of having sex with a 16-year-old former student and member of the Sureno 13 gang. According to police, Espinosa, who is married with two children, told them she “loved” the boy and that they have had sex numerous times, in her Park Ridge home and in her car at various locations around the high school. Police picked up the teacher, the boy and another male gang member, 22, when they smelled marijuana coming from her car.
 Jennifer Mally |
Jennifer Mally, 26: English teacher and cheerleading coach at Paradise Valley High School in Phoenix, Ariz., arrested in May 2007 and charged with 29 counts of sexual conduct with a minor. Police said the parents of the victim – a 16-year-old male student – contacted the school about a possible sexual relationship between their son and Mally that may have been going on since October 2006.
 Jennifer Rice |
Jennifer Rice, 31: Tacoma, Wash., teacher arrested Aug. 11, 2007, for allegedly kidnapping and raping her 10-year-old student numerous times. Rice was an instructor at McKinley Elementary School whose contract was not renewed after the school received complaints she was socializing inappropriately with students. Authorities say Rice admitted she raped the fourth-grade boy at a rest stop, and court documents indicate the pair had intercourse several times on previous occasions, including once in the boy’s home. On Sept. 10, 2007, prosecutors filed additional charges against Rice for allegedly raping another boy, age 14- to 16-years old.
 Jennifer Tarkenton |
Jennifer Tarkenton, 34: Teacher at Greenwood Lakes Middle School in Lake Mary, Fla., was arrested on Nov. 30, 2007, on three counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a child after police found her and a 14-year-old male student in her car. The boy told deputies that he and Tarkenton had sex inside the vehicle after she picked him up at his house, drove to a nearby pharmacy and purchased condoms.
 Jessica Bailey Wishnask |
Jessica Bailey Wishnask, 27: The former language arts teacher at Williston Middle School in Wilmington N.C., was arrested on May 23, 2009, when a police officer noticed a car with its brake lights on and the seats down. Wishnask, who lists herself as married and a “proud parent” on her MySpace page, was found “in intimate contact” with a 15-year-old-boy. “It doesn’t matter if he wanted the activity,” David said. “If he is under the age of 16 and any sexual activity occurred between her and him, it’s a felony,” said New Hanover County District Attorney Ben David.
Joan Marie Sladky, 28: Redwood City, Calif., woman sentenced to six months in county jail for having sex with a 16-year-old student after pleading no contest to four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, oral copulation and penetration with a foreign object. The Spanish teacher’s relationship with the boy spanned six months, as she reportedly had sex with him once at his home and three times at her residence, which was on the property of the private Baptist church and school where she taught.
 Jodi Church |
Jodi Church, 26: Teacher at Manual High School in Peoria, Ill., arrested March 2, 2007, for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old male student. Church faced one count of criminal sexual assault, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. She also faced federal charges of enticement for allegedly using MySpace.com to try to persuade a different 16-year-old male student to have sex with her.
 Julia Lund |
Julia Lund, 28: Language teacher at Chaska High School in Minnesota, arrested in December 2006, charged with third-degree sexual assault for allegedly performing oral sex on a 17-year-old male student. The victim told police he first noticed Lund staring at him in the school hallway, before she asked him to contact her. Lund allegedly told the boy her husband was away and she was lonely. During her trial, Lund’s defense argued not all wrongdoing was criminal. The jury agreed, and acquitted her on July 16, 2007.
 Julie A. Denno |
Julie A. Denno, 27: The former teacher at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Conn., was charged Sept. 26, 2008, for second-degree sexual assault and impairing the morals of a minor, for sexual assaults that occurred during a two-month period in her home. Police wouldn’t say the age of the student – a boy – to protect his identity.
Julie Pritchett, 34: Female special education teacher and sponsor of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club at Clay-Chalkville Middle School in Jefferson County, Ala., was charged in June 2008 with having sex with at least eight high school students between the ages of 15 and 19. When Pritchett discovered she was being investigated, she reportedly changed her phone number, shut down her MySpace account and resigned from her teaching position where she was a tenured teacher.
 Kanesa Hopkins |
Kanesa Hopkins, 31: “Teacher of the Year” at Westview Middle School in Goose Creek, S.C., was fired in May 2007 in the wake of allegations she had sex with a 14-year-old female student four years earlier. Court documents indicate Hopkins was also the girl’s Sunday School teacher and police said church officials questioned the amount of time the two spent together in December 2002. The relationship allegedly became sexual in January 2003.
 Karen Patton |
Karen Patton, 41: English teacher and cheerleading coach at Scott Memorial Middle School in Wytheville, Va., resigned in January 2006 after she was charged with having oral sex with a 13-year-old student. Patton was arrested after the boy’s mother went to police with instant messages between the boy and Patton, and what appeared to be a handwritten letter from Patton that referenced a sexual relationship. On March 12, 2007, she pleaded no contest to two counts of carnal knowledge and one count of non-forcible sodomy.
 Karen Robbins |
Karen Robbins: Laurens County, S.C., woman was charged on Sept. 23, 2007, with criminal sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd act upon a child. Police say the incidents took place in her car and in her home. The alleged crimes occured when the former teacher was working at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton. This is the same school where teacher Allenna Ward, also on this list, had sex with five boys.
 Kasey Johnes |
Kasey Johnes, 37: Health teacher at Edwardsville High School in Edwardsville, Ill., was arrested April 17, 2009, after local police were alerted by a school administrator of possible illegal conduct by a teacher involving a male student, 17. An investigation revealed that Johnes had a sexual relationship with the student who is now 18 years old. According to police, Johnes confessed to the allegations as did the student. The alleged sex took place at Johnes’ Glen Carbon, Ill., home over the course of about five months. She is being charged with one count of criminal sexual assault and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
 Katherine J. Harder |
Katherine J. Harder, 31 Language arts teacher at Manhattan High School, near Topeka, Kansas, was arrested March 26, 2008, when a deputy on patrol found the woman and a 17-year-old male student allegedly having sexual relations in a parked car near a local dam. While Kansas teens can legally consent to sex at age 16, it is a felony for teachers to have relations with any student of any age who attends the school where they work. Harder resigned her position then rescinded her decision. The school board voted to fire her on April 2, 2008.
Katherine Hicks, 39: Kindergarten teacher from Niangua, Mo., charged in March 2009 with having sexual contact with a high-school boy and furnishing pornography to him. Police said the investigation of Hicks started after the student’s mother complained to city police. In the probable cause affidavit, a detective said the 17-year-old student indicated he and Hicks had a personal relationship that included kissing, him touching her breast, her touching his rear, as well as an exchange of nude pictures and “dirty messages” via cellular telephones. The student was in her classroom to be a tutor for the A+ Program, which requires high school students to tutor other students as one requirement to be eligible for a community college scholarship.
 Katherine Tew |
Katherine Tew, 30: Married English teacher from Greenville, N.C., arrested for having sex with a 17-year-old boy. She taught at South Central High School in Winterville, N.C., and was convicted of taking indecent liberties with a child, but found not guilty of the more serious sex charge. She was not given prison time, and lost her teaching license for at least two years.
Kathy White, 39: Teacher at Lumberton High School in Lumberton, Texas, charged with having sex with a 17-year-old student. The victim, Michael Ferguson, alleges: “She just started grabbing me and hormones were on and it just happened.” Ferguson provided KBTV-TV with an e-mail allegedly sent by White, in which the teacher told him, “I get these cravings for YOU and that’s not NORMAL! If I had it my way, I’d do you once a week just because it’s good.”
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| Katryna Martin |
Katryna Martin, 28: The eighth-grade science teacher at North Gulfport School in Gulfport, Miss., was arrested on Feb. 13, 2009, and charged with unlawful touching of a child for lustful purposes and sexual battery. Police said the alleged victim was one of Martin’s former students who was being tutored in her home. After making bail, Martin was placed under house arrest and fitted with an electronic GPS bracelet and ordered not to enter a “1 1/2 square mile red zone” around the girl’s residence and school. She was arrested a second time on March 4, 2009, and charged with statuatory rape for alleged sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old male student at her home in July 2008.
 Kellie Ann Cormican |
Kellie Ann Cormican, 38:The former teacher’s aide from the Crookston, Minn., school district changed her plea to guilty on Dec. 17, 2008, for her sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy in August, September and November of 2007. In exchange for her guilty plea to five counts of third-degree criminal sexual contact, five charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct were dropped. Cormican told police she thought the boy was 16, not 14.
 Christina Oliver |
Kelly Abdo, 28: The former teacher and volleyball coach at Monroe High School in Michigan was charged in November 2008 with indecent exposure based on allegations two 17-year-old high school students saw her having sex in a car outside a party with another male student, also 17, earlier in the year. The student initially denied the accusation and, because he turned 18 and Michigan does not prohibit sex between teachers and 18-year olds, that incident was not at trial. Abdo insisted on her innocence but pleaded no contest on March 25, 2009, and was sentenced to two years probation. Abdo’s husband filed for divorce on March 13.
 Kelly Dalecki |
Kelly Lynn Dalecki, 26: Elementary-school teacher from St. Augustine, Fla., pleaded no contest to charges she had sex with a 13-year-old boy in 2003. The boy’s parents reportedly found more than 50 sexually explicit e-mails and pornographic pictures allegedly sent by Dalecki on his computer. Dalecki was sentenced to nearly a year in prison.
 Kelsey Peterson |
Kelsey Peterson, 25: Sixth grade math teacher and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School, Neb., was arrested Nov. 3, 2007, in Mexicali, Mexico, with a 13-year-old boy from her school with whom she is believed to have been having a sexual relationship. The boy was an illegal alien in the United States. Peterson faces charges of kidnapping, child abuse, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, as well as federal charges for transporting a minor across a foreign border for sexual activity.
 Kenzi Friday |
Kenzi Friday, 23: Geography teacher and cheerloading coach at Midland High School in Midland, Texas, was arrested on April 24, 2009, on a charge of improper educator/student relationship. Friday is accused of having sexual relations with a 17-year-old male student. The alleged incidents took place between the start of the school year through the beginning of April at a north Midland residence. She was released on a $25,000 bond and submitted her resignation.
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| Kesha D. Manuel, 29 |
Kesha D. Manuel, 29: The former Belaire High School art teacher from Baton Rouge, La., received active supervised probation for five years and unsupervised bench probation for two years on Feb. 17, 2009, after pleading guilty to a felony charge of cruelty to a juvenile and a misdemeanor charge of carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Manuel was originally sentenced to eight years hard labor and six additional months in prison on the two charges but the sentence was suspended. Manuel was arrested in October 2007. According to reports, she and the 15-year-old student frequently exchanged letters during the school day, and on Oct. 20, 2007, they met at a public library and had sexual intercourse in a stall in the women’s restroom. Manuel admitted to a deputy she allowed him to kiss and fondle her in her classroom during free periods.
 Kimberly Lynch |
Kimberly Lynch, 37: Macedon, N.Y., woman was a teacher’s aide at Palmyra-Macedon High School who admitted having a sexual affair with a 16-year-old male student, including in school halls, in a car and at the boy’s home in February 2004. The married mother of three reportedly detailed the tryst in love letters the local newspaper said included discussion about having a baby together.
 Kirsten Kinley |
Kirsten Kinley, 27: Special-education teacher at Hammond Middle School in Howard County, Md., arrested in February 2007 for alleged sexual activity with a 15-year-old boy on New Year’s Eve 2004 and in January 2005. Court documents indicate the boy told police the pair chatted online when Kinley asked him if “he was a virgin and then asked him to have sex with her.” He also said Kinley warned him not to tell anyone about their discussions or their planned activity. She was originally charged with two counts of third-degree sex offense, two counts of fourth-degree sex offense and two counts of solicitation of a minor. On Aug. 28, 2007, Kinley pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree sex offense.
 Kristen Margrif |
Kristen Margrif, 27: Mayville, Mich., teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old male student in her car or at his summer workplace in June and July 2005. She was given a one-year delayed sentence in June 2006 on three felony counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a student, meaning she’ll only have to serve probation if she remains trouble-free for a year.
 Kristi Oakes |
Kristi Dance Oakes, 32: Teacher allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old boy who was in her biology class the previous year. Oakes resigned from her post at Seymour High School in Sevierville, Tenn., and reportedly lost her home and even the job she took at a grocery store after resigning from the school system because of the charges. In July 2006, she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in jail.
Lakina Stutts, 40: School-bus driver admitted to cops she had sex with a 14-year-old student in her home and in a car outside the boy’s home.
Laura Lynn Findlay, 30: Band teacher at Ricker Middle School in Buena Vista Township, Mich., charged with having sex with at least 5 students, one as young as 14. She was sentenced in August 2006 to at least seven and as much as 25 years in prison.
 Laura Pace |
Laura Pace, 38: Eustis High School teacher was arrested Oct. 17, 2008, by the Lake County, Fla., sheriff after investigators said they substantiated rumors that she had sex with two of her students. Court papers allege that Pace, who is married, had an ongoing relationship with one teen, then an encounter with the second. The papers say she sent images of her breasts and buttocks to one teen via cell phone.
 Lauren Cosgrove |
Lauren Cosgrove, 28: This 7th-grade teacher at Strickland Middle School in Denton, Texas, found herself in jail, charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, for allegedly having a two-day sexual relationship with a former student, 13, in July 2007. She was babysitting the boy at the time.
 Leslie Baird |
Leslie Baird, 42: Teacher at Tooele High School in Tooele, Utah, arrested in 2006 for allegedly having sex with two male students, ages 17 and 18. The mother of the 17-year-old boy said her son’s grades dropped from straight As to barely passing in the wake of the activity, and he no longer participates in sports. In January 2007, Baird was sentenced to undergo a 90-day psychological evaluation at Utah State Prison after pleading guilty to a felony charge of forcible sexual abuse. Her judge was Mark Kouris, the same jurist who came under fire for giving Cameo Patch, another teacher at the same school, no jail time for performing oral sex on a 17-year-old male student.
 Linda Nef |
Linda Nef, 46: The Utah studies teacher and cheerleading adviser at Bountiful Junior High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, was arrested on March 6, 2009 for sexual assault on a 13-year-old boy after turning herself into the police. During her confession, she gave police the name of another teacher, Valynne Bowers, who had begun having sex with the same student after her relationship ended. Bowers was also arrested. Until shortly before the arrests, the two teachers did not know about each other’s relationship with the same boy, a police spokesman said.
 Linda Pithyou |
Linda Pithyou, 29,: Teacher at Lawrence Hall Youth Services, a Cook County, Ill., school for troubled youth, was arrested on Feb. 20 and formally charged on March 13, 2009, with two counts of criminal sexual assault and four counts of aggravated sexual abuse for allegedly having sex with a boy, 15. She allegedly drank alcohol, smoked marijuana and engaged in oral sex and sexual intercourse with the boy approximately four times a week at various locations in a car between January 27, 2009 and February 23, 2009, occasionally with her 16-month-old son in the back seat, according to prosecutors. On April 10, 2009, the boys father filed a negligence suit seeking in excess of $50,000 against Lawrence Hall. Pithyou faces up to 15 years if convicted.
 Lindsay Massaro |
Lindsay Massaro, 23: The student teacher at K-8 Frankford Elementary School in Sussex County, N.J., was arrested March 30, 2009, for having sexual encounters with a pupil in her car and in her bedroom. Massaro allegedly admitted to the “consensual sexual relationship” with the boy she met while student teaching and working toward her state teaching certificate in special education. Police were alerted by the boy’s father who claimed his son was having an “ongoing sexual relationship” with the eighth-grade student teacher at his son’s school.
 Lisa Lavoie |
Lisa Lavoie, 24: Teacher from Maurice A. Donahue Elementary School in Holyoke, Mass., arrested Feb. 24, 2009, at a Super 8 Motel in Morgantown, W.Va., with a 15-year old male student with whom she allegedly absconded from Massachusetts. Lavoie, a rookie teacher with the district for just 5 months, was reportedly intoxicated at the time of her arrest. Lavoie was held on child enticement charges, which may include statutory rape. Holyoke Mayor Michael Sullivan said, “This is really a very unfortunate incident and we’re thankful it didn’t end in tragedy.”
 Lisa Robyn Marinelli |
Lisa Robyn Marinelli, 40: An educator in Tampa Bay, the investigation into her activities was launched after a 17-year-old boy’s father told investigators he saw his son “holding his pants together and putting them back in place” after getting out of Marinelli’s 2007 Chrysler 300. Spokesman Kevin Doll of the Pasco County sheriff’s office said she was arrested March 24, 2008, and accused of unlawful sex with a minor. She also is accused of giving the boy a pair of underwear as a memento. Marinelli was the third Tampa Bay area teacher to be charged in a short period of time with a sex-related crime against a minor. In Hillsborough County, former Davidsen Middle School math teacher Stephanie Ragusa and Freedom High English teacher Mary Jo Spack of Wesley Chapel were accused of having sex with underage students.
Lynn Saunders, 38: A former basketball star at the College of Staten Island, the gym teacher at St. Paul’s School in New Brighton, N.Y., was arrested in March 2005 for allegedly molesting a 12-year-old girl whose family she had befriended. Saunders admitted to touching the girl’s breasts and genital area on several dates in February 2005. She received no jail time, only probation and registration as a sex offender. The family is now suing Saunders and the Archdiocese of New York, claiming the girl became suicidal and still suffers from “severe emotional shock, trauma, embarrassment, anxiety and other psychological injuries.”
 Margaret De Barraicua |
Margaret De Barraicua, 30: Sacramento, Calif., area woman arrested in February 2005 after police found her having sex with a 16-year-old male student in her car while the woman’s toddler was strapped into a seat in the back. She pleaded guilty to four felony counts of statutory rape and in November 2005 was sentenced to a year in jail and five years formal probation.
 Maria Guzman Hernandez |
Maria Guzman Hernandez, 32: Sixth-grade teacher at Hialeah, Fla.’s, Our Lady of Charity was charged on May 23, 2009, with sexual battery on a child over whom she had custodial authority, a charge similar to statutory rape. In the days prior to her arrest, police had wanted to question her but she was at Disney World … with the 15-year-old victim. According to the boy, the pair had been sexually active since March. Detective Carl Zogby, a Hialeah police spokesman, said many of the couple’s romantic encounters occurred at the apartment the boy shared with his mother. “She apparently didn’t find anything wrong with it, thought that the teacher was a nice enough person and a good influence on her son,” Zogby said. The mother’s attorney said she would be disputing the extent of her knowledge about her son’s sexual relationship with his teacher. Hernandez, who is estranged from her husband, told investigators “she was going through a lot in her life.” Hernandez’s two children attend the Hialeah school.
Maria Saco, 28: Math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in Passaic, N.J., sentenced in 2005 to a year in jail for an intimate relationship with a teen student who was 14 when they first met. Saco reportedly gave the boy a key to her apartment.
 Mariella Brenlla |
Mariella Brenlla, 40:Ponce De Leon Middle School teacher in the Miami-Dade district was arrested on Aug. 22, 2007, following an investigation sparked by a former student who alleged sexual contact some four years before when the child was a 14-year-old eighth-grader. “(Students) come here and it’s supposed to be like a protective zone for them, a safe zone for them, and not a zone where they have to be afraid if a teacher’s going to come onto them,” said a parent reacting to news of the arrest.
 Mary Jo Spack |
Mary Jo Spack, 45: Honors English teacher at Freedom High School in Tampa, Fla., arrested March 20, 2008, after she allegedly met two male students at a liquor store, took them to a motel, and had sex with one of them in the shower as four other students overheard in the next room. The boy’s boasting about having had sex with a teacher eventually caught the attention of a school resource officer. “I think the public feels this is an epidemic, and I’m very concerned about it,” said Hillsborough County School Board member April Griffin, who called for a special meeting to discuss the recent rash of teacher sex scandals.
 Mary Kay Letourneau |
Mary Kay Letourneau, 34: Des Moines, Wash., teacher did prison time after having sex with a sixth-grade student, Vili Fualaau, in 1996 and eventually had two children by him. She originally had Fualaau in her second-grade class at Shorewood Elementary School in Burien, Wash. The couple has since married.
 Megan Sainsbury |
Megan Sainsbury, 31: The physical education teacher and former coach at Prospect High School in Saratoga, Calif., was arrested Monday, March 9, 2009, on three misdemeanor counts of “annoying or molesting” a 17-year-old female student, according to court documents. Here arrest was the third for a lesbian teacher in the same district within a two week period. “You probably noticed that several teachers have been arrested on these types of charges lately,” said Santa Clara County Supervising Deputy District Attorney Mike Fletcher. “But teachers are no more likely than doctors, lawyers or newspaper reporters to commit these crimes. Sex crimes affect a wide cross-section of demographics. I think it’s just a fluke.”
 Melinda Deluca |
Melinda Deluca, 29: Sign-language teacher at Copper Hills High School in West Jordan, Utah, was fired in December 2005 for allegedly having sexual intercourse twice with a 16-year-old male student she reportedly had been “grooming” for sexual activity. The case took a bizarre turn in the summer of 2006, when Deluca was found beaten and had to be airlifted to the hospital, claiming two teen boys attacked her as payback. In reality, she made up the claim in an apparent attempt to get sympathy. In January 2007, she was sentenced to 90 days in jail. The victim’ mother said she initially “hated [Deluca] with every part of my being,” but later expressed forgiveness, saying “even though she’s hurt my family, I’ve grown to love her.”
Melissa Bare, 35: Kitts Hill, W.V., teacher of language arts and writing at Rock Hill Middle School in Ironton, W.V., indicted April 23, 2007, on two counts of sexual battery. Bare pleaded innocent to charges she had sexual contact with a 16-year-old male student in February 2007.
 Melissa Chase |
Melissa Chase, 29: Harlem High School coach in Harlem, Ga., was released from prison on July 31, 2009, after serving only three years of a 10-year sentence. The Georgia Supreme Court overturned her 2006 sentence, saying the age of consent should have been allowed as evidence along with the 16-year-old female student’s testimony that she “wanted” the relationship.
 Melissa Deel |
Melissa Michelle Deel, 32: Bristol, Tenn., teacher at Virginia Middle School pleaded guilty to crossing the state line into Virginia to have oral sex with a 13-year-old male student in December 2004. As part of her plea agreement, Deel agreed never to profit from the crime, as well as have no contact with the boy and his family without court permission. She was sentenced in 2005 to a year and two months prison.
 Melissa Diana Koeh |
Melissa Diana Koeh, 30: The ex-teacher at St. Croix Lutheran High School in West St. Paul, Minn., was arrested Dec. 20, 2008, when a police officer found a 17-year-old girl and Koeh, who had been the girl’s teacher and coach the previous year, kissing in a car in a parking lot near a soccer field. The girl’s parents had allowed the teacher to stay overnight in their home with their daughter and told authorities they believed she had slept on the floor of the girl’s bedroom and were unaware of any sexual activity. Koeh was charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and freed on $10,000 bail.
 Melissa Lavender |
Melissa Lavender, 33: Detroit-area culinary arts teacher at South Lake High School in St. Clair Shores, Mich., was arrested in August 2008 after being accused of engaging in sex acts with two male high-school students, ages 16 and 17, while on a boat owned by the parents of a former student. A published report says Michigan’s age of consent is 16, but a state statute makes it illegal for a teacher to engage in sex acts with a student irrespective of the student’s age. Lavender, who held her teaching job for six years, was charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.
 Melissa Dawn McCord |
Melissa Dawn McCord, 35: Special education teacher at West Carroll Elementary in Atwood, Tenn., faces several charges, including statutory rape by an authority figure after being arrested on Jan. 29, 2009. Police say a 14-year-old junior high student, who had dated McCord’s daughter, reported the woman had performed oral sex on him at a city park on two occasions. The police report said the teenager’s parents had several text conversations between McCord and the boy in their possession.
 Melissa Moss |
Melissa Moss, 27: Teacher at Barat Academy in Dardenne Prairie, Mo., allegedly e-mailed two topless photos of herself to one of her 15-year-old students. She was charged Feb. 26, 2008, with furnishing pornographic material to a minor, a misdemeanor.
 Melissa Snow |
Melissa Snow, 27: English teacher at Sheridan High School in Denver, Colo., pleaded guilty to felony attempted sexual assault after being accused of having sex on numerous occasions with a male student. She was arrested Nov. 5, 2008, and was given no jail time when sentenced Aug. 4, 2009. Snow received just eight years of supervised probation and was ordered to register as a convicted sex offender.
 Melissa Weber |
Melissa Weber, 27: The social studies teacher at I.S./M.S. 8 in Queens, New York, was arrested May 29, 2009, after being found having sex in her classroom with a 14-year-old male student. According to another student, it was a common sight to see Weber after school working with several students. But authorities said the 27-year-old took particular interest in one student, having sex with the teen seven times from mid-April to mid-May, all after school. She allegedly told him: “Don’t tell anyone. I could get arrested and I could lose my teaching license.” Investigators said after the boy’s mother was tipped off by school employees, she checked her son’s cell phone and found hundreds of calls and texts from Weber, the last text reading, “erase your phone.”
Meredith Hollen, 40: Former teacher at the prestigious Graland Country Day School in Denver arrested Nov. 2, 2007, for allegedly sexually assaulting a male student off campus before the schoolyear began. She was charged with two counts of sexual assault on a child and another count of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.
 Meredith Kane |
Meredith Kane, 24: English teacher at Kansas’ Lawrence High School was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2007, after having been convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old male student during the 2006-2007 school year – even after she was arrested and released on bond. She had hoped to avoid prison time by arguing her actions were impulsive due to an undiagnosed bi-polar disorder, but the judge gave her 59 months behind bars.
 Michelle Farley |
Michelle Farley, 40:Boise, Idaho, prosecutors say the Borah High psychology teacher, arrested on Dec. 18, 2008, admitted to police she had sexual contact with a student, who was 17 at the time. Farley, whose husband works for the school district, is the mother of two children. A magistrate judge ordered she not have any contact with children other than her own.
 Michelle Kush |
Michelle Kush, 29: Substitute teacher at Boone County High School in Florence, Ky., allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old boy several times during summer break. She was charged with two counts of rape and one sodomy count. In August 2006, Kush was sentenced to 60 days in jail, 30 days on house arrest and five years probation.
Michelle Morano, 33: Cedar Grove, N.J., woman taught English at West Essex High School when she was arrested March 23, 2007, for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student. She was charged with sexual assault. Morano’s involvement with the student reportedly came to light when insurance officials were conducting an unrelated investigation at the school.
 Michelle VanMeter |
Michelle VanMeter, 35: Catholic studies teacher in Fort Wayne, Ind., pleaded guilty Jan. 15, 2008, to having sex with multiple boys, ranging from age 12 to 15. In June 2007, VanMeter gave birth to a baby, and a paternity test revealed with 99.9 percent certainty the 15-year-old was the father of the child. In a separate case, VanMeter pleaded guilty to a single count of child molesting, stemming from the molestation of another boy. Those allegations surfaced during the investigation of the first case.
 Michelle Zulkowsky |
Michelle Zulkowsky, 28: Teacher’s aide at North Penn High School in Lansdale, Pa., was arrested April 30, 2008, as she blew the whistle on her own “secret love” with a with a 16-year-old male student in the English as a Second Language program. Zulkowsky indicated she “did not have any control over her feelings,” according to her arrest affidavit. She reportedly began to supervise the boy in September 2007, and by January 2008, “she told him that she loved him and that she wanted to be with him.”
Natalie Fraxedas, 23: Spanish teacher at Santaluces High School in Lantana, Fla., was fired in June 2008 after allegedly having sex with an 18-year-old male student. “I believe that you want to be with me,” she expressed to the student in a handwritten letter. “So I let my guard down and decided then to let you in my heart.” Fraxedas also told him, “I give you good grades to help you out so you don’t have to worry about this class. I wish I could do more for you.” No criminal proceedings were expected because the consensual sex was with someone 18 and took place off campus.
 Natasha Sizow |
Natasha Sizow, 24: First-year social studies teacher and girls’ swimming coach at Granby High School in Virginia Beach, Va., arrested in February 2008 for allegedly sending erotic pictures of herself via cell phone to students. A police spokesman said she was accused of sending photos of herself “in various stages of undress.” The students involved were a male and a female, both 17. Sizow was charged with two counts each of indecent liberties and use of a communications device to facilitate crimes against children.
 Nicole Barnhart |
Nicole Andrea Barnhart, 35: Highlands Ranch, Colo., woman reportedly told police she loves the 16-year-old boy with whom she was having sex. A teacher at Ponderosa High School, she pleaded guilty to felony sexual assault on a child, resulting in a two-year prison sentence and a minimum of 10 years in a sex-offender probation program.
 Nicole Howell |
Nicole Howell, 26: First-year English teacher at Dayton High School, Dayton, Ky., was pulled from her classrom in December 2008 and told she was being suspended for having sex with a student football player, 16. A month later she was arrested for first-degree sexual abuse, a charge she called “preposterous.” Howell, who also served as cheerleading coach, said she has never been alone with the student and says there is no evidence other than the ramblings of a high school kid who at first claimed the two were involved in a threesome with another male student. Howell is now planning to sue the school district, the police department and the boy who she says made it all up.
 Nicole Long |
Nicole Long, 29: English teacher at Ayersville High School in Ohio resigned her teaching post after being accused of raping a 17-year-old boy. She pleaded guilty in January 2005 to a charge of sexual battery, and was sentenced in March to three months in jail.
Nicole Pomerleau, 31: English teacher at Olympic High School in Charlotte, N.C., arrested in March 2004 for allegedly having a sexual relationship with her 16-year-old student. The age of consent in North Carolina is 16, but teachers having sex with students is an exception to the law. Though Pomerleau admitted the affair, she got no prison time and did not have to register as a sex offender.
 Pamela Balogh |
Pamela Balogh, 39: Gym teacher and coach at a Somerset, N.J. Catholic high school was charged in December 2006 with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old female student over a period of 10 months. Authorities say the assaults happened mainly in Balogh’s office.
 Pamela Diehl-Moore |
Pamela Diehl-Moore, 43:When this former teacher at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Clifton, N.J., pleaded guilty in January 2002 to having sex during the summer of 1999 with a 13-year-old male student in her 7th-grade class, she expected to be sentenced to three years, based on a deal worked out with prosecutors. But at her May hearing, Judge Bruce A. Gaeta sentenced her to probation, saying: “I really don’t see the harm that was done here and certainly society doesn’t need to be worried. I do not believe she is a sexual predator. It’s just something between two people that clicked beyond the teacher-student relationship. … And don’t forget, this was mutual consent.” Following an appeal by prosecutors, Diehl-Moore was sentenced to serve three years in September 2002.
 Pamela Smart |
Pamela Smart, 22: Media-services director at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H., had convinced her 15-year-old lover to murder her husband. She was arrested in 1993 and is now serving a life sentence. The Nicole Kidman film “To Die For” is based on her story.
 Pamela Rogers Turner |
Pamela Rogers Turner, 27: Former model and beauty-pageant contestant also taught at Centertown Elementary School in McMinnville, Tenn. She was arrested in February 2005 for allegedly having a three-month sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy. She resigned her teaching position and was charged with 15 counts of sexual battery and 13 counts of statutory rape. Originally sentenced to 270 days in August 2005, she got in additional trouble in April 2006 for sending text messages, nude photos, and sex videos of herself to the same boy while using her father’s cellphone. In July 2006, she was sentenced to serve eight years for violating her probation, and in January 2007, was given an additional two years for sending the photos.
 Rachel Burkhart |
Rachel Burkhart, 25: Teacher at Lenoir City High School in Tennesee resigned in May 2008 amid allegations she had an inappropriate relationship with an 18-year-old male student. Burkhart stepped down after Lenoir City School Superintendent Wayne Miller confronted her. Miller said in a statement, “When an incident such as this happens, it undermines the foundation of what every teacher should stand for. It breaches the trust that teachers spend their entire career nurturing and offends everyone associated with education. It saddens me when one teacher has the ability to so negatively impact our community.”
 Rachel Holt |
Rachel Holt, 34: Sixth-grade science teacher at Claymont Elementary School in Delaware reportedly acknowledged that in the last week of March 2006, she had sexual intercourse with her male student 27 times, and that she once performed oral sex on him. All of the sexual encounters allegedly occurred at the teacher’s apartment. Though originally indicted on 28 counts of first-degree rape, Holt pleaded guilty Jan. 22, 2007, to a single count of second-degree rape, and was ordered to prison to await sentencing. On March 16, 2007, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Rachelle Vantucci, 32: Ex-substitute teacher from Geneseo, N.Y., admitted having sex with a 16-year-old boy she met at a local riding stable. After pleading guilty, Vantucci agreed to surrender her teaching license and register as a sex offender.
 Rebecca Boicelli |
Rebecca Boicelli, 33: Redwood City, Calif., woman gave birth to a baby and DNA test results gave prosecutors enough evidence to prove the father is Boicelli’s former student, who was 16 at the time of conception. She was sentenced to two years in prison.
 Rebecca Becker and Maria Zurita |
Rebecca Becker, 28, and Maria Zurita, 28:This teacher and teacher aide were arrested in May 2007 and charged with statuatory rape after the pair took two 16-year-old male students from the youth home where they worked to one of their houses for a Memorial Day weekend of sex. The school’s search for the missing boys turned up letters written by one of the teachers that were sexually explicit and inappropriate, authorities said.
 Rebecca Bogard |
Rebecca Bogard, 27: Teacher at the alternative school in Biloxi, Miss., was arrested Jan. 18, 2008, charged with sexual battery of a teenage male student at the school. The complaint was filed by the parent of the boy, who was under the age of 16. A judge set her bail at $50,000, and she was released.
 Rebecca Ann Bramlett |
Rebecca Ann Bramlett, 33: Teacher at Baines Middle School in the Fort Bend Independent School District of Texas was arrested May 2, 2008, and charged with sexual assault of a child for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a teenage boy. The investigation began when Bramlett was pulled over on a minor traffic stop with the student in her car. When a sheriff’s deputy began talking to Bramlett, she reportedly said, “We are having an affair and I am taking him home.”
Rebecca Lee Kelley, 24: Tucson, Ariz., teacher at Salpointe Catholic School was indicted in April 2007, accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy. Kelley was originally was indicted on four counts of sexual conduct with a minor under 18, but on Oct. 15, 2007, she pleaded guilty to one count of failure to report a reportable offense and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and was expected to avoid any mandatory prison time and having to register as a sex offender.
 Rebekah Todd |
Rebekah Todd, 25: Health and physical education teacher at White River High School in Buckley, Wash., resigned after she was accused of performing oral sex on a 17-year-old boy. She had pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree assault and was expecting a sentence of 30 days in home detention. On March 14, 2007, the judge sentenced Todd to six months in jail.
Rebecca Robertson-Shaffer, 25: Spanish teacher at Hilton Head Island High School, South Carolina, pleaded guilty in 2004 to committing a lewd act on a 15-year-old male student the previous year and received an 8-year suspended sentence and three years of probation. Three years later, on Dec. 2, 2007, the male victim filed a civil suit, charging the Beaufort County School District and the school board with neglegence because they did nothing to prevent the abuse from occurring and under-reacted afterward. The suit recounts incidents where the teacher allegedly was “grooming” the boy “in plain view” of school administrators and would “inappropriately touch, rub against and/or hug the then-minor plaintiff.”
Regina McKay, 33: Computer teacher at Geronimo High School in Cotton County, Okla., pleaded no contest on April 7, 2008, to the second-degree rape of her 17-year-old male student in 2006. The boy told police McKay offered to buy him cigarettes and alcohol if he would come to her home and have sex with her. In school, the victim said McKay would make him sit beside her at a table and she would rub her foot up and down his legs. If he tried to move, he said she’d get angry. McKay received a sentence of five years, but would need to serve just 30 days behind bars, and only on weekends.
 Rhianna Ellis |
Rhianna Ellis, 24: Social-studies teacher at the High School for Health Professions and Human Services in Manhattan, N.Y., allegedly began a 10-month sexual relationship with an 17-year-old player on the school’s basketball team, and reportedly gave birth to his baby. The teen boy even introduced Ellis to his parents, never indicating she was his teacher.
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| Rita Brum |
Rita Brum, 24: The teacher at Mount Pleasant High School in East San Jose, Calif., was arraigned March 12, 2009, on charges of having sexual relations with a minor – a 17-year-old female student. The girl’s mother discovered a love letter written to her daughter by the first-year teacher and assistant soccer coach and confronted the woman and pulled her hair. “Rita is a very good person who made a mistake,” Brum’s attorney said. “She had some issues in her past that may have led her to make this choice. We’re only hoping that we can avoid significant jail time. She’s taken responsibility and she is trying to improve herself and get clarity so this won’t happen again.”
Robin Gialanella, 26: Teacher at Silver Bay Elementary School in Toms River, N.J., engaged in kissing, and inappropriate conduct and conversations with two sixth-grade boys, ages 11 and 12, in 2003 and 2004. She was sentenced to 364 days in jail with psychotherapy, must register as a sex offender, will be under lifetime supervision and must surrender her New Jersey teaching certificate.
Robin Winkis, 29: English teacher at Central York High School in York, Pa., allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old boy after giving him alcohol. Authorties accused her of five alleged sex acts during October and November 2005. She pleaded guilty as part of a deal, and was sentenced to two to 23 months in jail.
 Rosanna Encinas Brown |
Rosanna Encinas Brown, 49: The teacher at Pastor Elementary School in Phoenix, Ariz., was charged Jan. 31, 2009, with three Class 2 felony counts of sexual conduct with a minor. According to police, Brown admitted luring a 14-year-old male student to a dark motel by text message where she performed oral sex on the boy so he would not have sex with his girlfriend, the woman’s alleged goddaughter.
 Samantha Solomon |
Samantha Solomon, 29: Guidance counselor at the High School for Health Professions and Human Services in Manhattan, N.Y. was fired after school bosses learned she was having sex with a teenage boy. She denies the allegations, attributing them to rumors gone wild.
 Sandra Binkley |
Sandra Binkley, 35: The Portland, Tenn., High School teacher was charged Sept. 25, 2008, with statutory rape by an authority figure as the result of sexual contact with a 17-year-old boy during school hours. A week later, two more students came forward claiming they had had a sexual encounter, also, on and off campus.
 Sandra Borrego |
Sandra Borrego, 41: Dance instructor at Most Precious Blood Catholic School in Corpus Christi, Texas, was indicted Jan. 24, 2008, on charges she repeatedly sexually assaulted one of her 13-year-old students. Borrego was indicted on 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and was ordered to undergo testing to determine if her baby daughter had been fathered by her alleged victim. Arrest records indicate the boy said he had sexual contact with Borrego on 20 to 30 occasions behind a curtain in the school’s cafeteria, as well as at her house.
 Sandra “Beth” Geisel |
Sandra “Beth” Geisel, 42: English teacher at Christian Brothers Academy, an all-boys school in Albany, N.Y., allegedly had sex three times with a 16-year-old male student in May 2005, including once on school grounds in the football stadium’s press box. Originally indicted in September for three counts of third degree rape, she pleaded guilty to a single count of rape and was sentenced to six months in jail, and ranked as a Level 1 sex offender, the lowest risk.
 Sarah Bridges |
Sarah Bridges, 24: Substitute teacher in Eugene, Ore., arrested June 6, 2008, in connection with the rape, sodomy and sexual assault of a middle school boy. Bridges allegedly engaged in sexual activity with the student at an off-campus location in March 2008. She was charged with third-degree rape and two counts each of third-degree sodomy and sexual assault. A MySpace page with Bridges’ name and photo featured the quote, “We ride never worried about the fall.” District spokesman Kelly McIver told the Register-Guard newspaper: “You get deviants every once in a while and they do things that make you stop and think twice. It’s really sad because students and parents should be able to trust teachers.”
 Sarah Joel |
Sarah Joel , 31: Teacher at Narcoossee Community School in Osceola County, Fla., arrested Jan. 25, 2008, for allegedly having sexual relations with one of her former male students who was 15 at the time. The boy told authorities that when he called Joel to talk about his problems, Joel would pick him up and take him to her home. She faces three counts of lewd and lascivious battery, a second-degree felony. Joel entered a guilty plea Sept. 12, 2008.
 Sarah L. Tolzien |
Sarah L. Tolzien, 24: The Rich South High School teacher and cross-country coach in Richton Park, Ill., was charged March 26, 2008, with criminal sexual assault for allegedly having sex on two occasions with a 16-year-old male student the previous November. The student’s parents reported the alleged sexual activity to police in early December after finding sexually-oriented text messages from Tolzien on the boy’s cell phone.
 Shannon Best |
Shannon Best, 33: Social studies teacher at Sanderson High School in Raleigh, N.C., resigned April 14, 2008, after being charged with taking indecent liberties with an 18-year-old female student. A police spokesman indicated the encounter occurred at a residence but would not specify the location. Although the alleged victim is of legal age, police said criminal charges were being pursued because of the teacher-student nature of the alleged encounter. Best was released from the Wake County jail after posting a $5,000 bond. On June 18, 2008, Best pleaded guilty to a charge of misdemeanor attempted crime against nature and giving alcohol to a student. She received a 45-day suspended jail sentence, 18 months unsupervised probation, and was ordered to pay a $250 fine and court costs. She did not have to register as a sex offender.
 Shannon Herring |
Shannon Herring, 32: The exceptional children’s teacher at Southern Wayne High School in Dudley, N.C., was charged on March 4, 2009, with two counts of sexual activity with a student. Deputies said Herring had sex with the 17-year-old boy on at least two occasions during October and November of last year. Authorities say the encounters did not happen at the school.
 Sharon Rutherford |
Sharon Rutherford, 31: The 9th-grade English teacher at Coffeeville High School in Alabama was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2007, to three years in prison and five years probation for having sex with two males students under 16-years of age. According to one of her former students, the two broke off their relationship after Rutherford asked him to kill her husband, “then she got with 8 more of my friends.” Rutherford faces more time in prison for soliciting murder.
 Shebana Rajput |
Shebana Rajput, 35: Biology and physical science instructor since August 2005 at Jones Senior High School in Trenton, N.C., resigned her position May 21, 2008 – just two days before she was arrested in her home for alleged sexual conduct with a 17-year-old student whose gender was not released. Sheriff’s officials say she had sexual relations with the teen in her home on nine separate occasions between March and May of 2008. Rajput was charged with eight counts of sexual activity with a student and one count of sex offense with a student. She was held on $100,000 bail as authorities looked into the possibility she was involved with additional students.
Shelley Allen, 35: Teacher’s aide from Cherokee County, Texas, was arrested in June 2005. Allen was charged with sexual assault of a child and faces a possible 20 years behind bars.
 Sheila Vazquez |
Sheila Vazquez, 36: High-school teacher at the Renaissance School in Warren Township, Ind., was arrested and suspended in May 2008 after allegations of sex with a 15-year-old male student during a “lunch” outing during school hours. According to a police report, the student said conversations began innocently in February when he told his teacher he was bored in school. Vazquez responded she had something that would keep him busy. The two met in a classroom after school on several occasions to kiss and embrace, according to the student. Vasquez, who faces four counts of child molestation, allegedly arranged to take the student to lunch as a reward for hard work. They went to her home where they had sex, the student told police.
 Sherry Brians |
Sherry Brians, 41: Middle-school language-arts instructor in Buttonwillow, Calif., originally arrested in January 2006 on suspicion of engaging in lewd acts with a 12-year-old male student, a felony that involves sexual contact. She originally pleaded not guilty to two counts of annoying or molesting a child under 18, but on March 12, 2007, pleaded no contest to reduced charges of misdemeanor battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
 Sheryl A. Namahine |
Sheryl A. Nawahine, 35: Idaho teacher at Fruitland High School indicted on Sept. 21, 2007, on three felony counts for exchanging explicit text messages with a member of the school’s football team. She allegedly sent over 1,000 messages, including a photo and video, to the boy – a close friend of her own teenage son and daughter. “I take full responsibility for my actions,” she wrote in a statement. “I knew better the whole time. All the text and picture (sic) was generated by me, and no one else.” Both Nawahine and the teen say no sexual contact occurred.
Stephanie Burleson: Volleyball coach and teacher at Floresville High School in Texas, pleaded guilty in June 2005 to all charges for molesting a 16-year-old female student. She was sentenced to 10 years probation, and required to register as a sex offender.
 Stephanie Giambelluca |
Stephanie Giambelluca, 24: First-year teacher at J.D. Meisler Middle School in Metairie, La., was arrested in December 2006 on charges of molestation and indecent behavior with a 12-year-old male. Police say the acts were captured on videotape, recorded by Ryan Mapes, 18, who was babysitting the boy. Giambelluca allegedly disrobed to her underwear, performed a suggestive dance for the boy and performed oral sex on Mapes in front of the young student.
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| Stephanie Diane Harris |
Stephanie Diane Harris, 27: Teacher at Marble City Elementary School was arrested Sept. 9, 2008, for charges related to alleged sexual contact with a 13-year-old boy. According to the boy, Harris began texting him in June, asking him to have sex with her. She is accused of having had sex with the teen in her home several times and exchanging photographs of the pair’s genitals by cell phone. The boy reported the incidents to police in mid-August, sparking the investigation.
 Stephanie Ragusa |
Stephanie Ragusa, 28: Math teacher at Martinez Middle School in Lutz, Fla., was arrested March 13, 2008, accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy. She reportedly met the boy on campus while working as a special education teacher at Davidsen Middle School the previous schoolyear. Ragusa allegedly had sex with the student twice in her car and once in her apartment between October 2006 and May 2007. An arrest affidavit from investigators says the victim’s story was verified by his knowledge of tattoos of a flower and an insect on Ragusa that are visible only if she is undressed. She was arrested a second time on April 15, 2008, for sex with another boy, and then while free on bail, was arrested a third time on April 28 for allegedly having sex yet again with one of her previous victims.
 Stephanie Ann Stein |
Stephanie Ann Stein, 31: The former English teacher at Plymouth Christian Academy in Canton, Mich., was arrested on Sept. 17, 2007, after the mother of a 15-year-old student saw her leaving the boy’s home for the second time. She admitted to police she was having sex with the boy, knew it was wrong and was in the process of severing the relationship. During the course of their investigation – police say they also learned about a racy – nude – photo the teacher sent to the student. According to the Detroit News, instant messages and e-mails between the victim and Stein showed early on that the young man wanted a long-term relationship with her and to save her from what he thought was an abusive marriage. He also testified he fantasized about having children with her. On June 17, 2008, the mother of two young children was found guilty of two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, sending sexually explicit photographs to a minor and using a computer to send those images.
 Stephanie Jo Walters |
Stephanie Jo Walters, 27: Eighth-grade teacher at Musselman Middle School in Inwood, W.V., turned herself into the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department May 1, 2009, where she was charged with sexual abuse by a person of trust to a child. Walters allegedly sent text messages to a male student describing what she would like to do to him sexually. According to the criminal complaint, an uninvolved student learned that the 14-year-old male student and Walters were sending one another text messages, leading school officials to believe there was an inappropriate relationship. Walters allegedly began confiding in a female student two weeks ago, telling the student that she and the 14-year-old male student made out and she had let him touch her breasts and kiss her in a janitor’s closet at school.
 Susan Clickner |
Susan Clickner, 47: The 8th-grade science teacher at Blanchard Middle School in Lowell, Mass., was sentenced to serve 18 months for having sex with one of her students in the back seat of her car. Clickner had been accused of luring the 14-year-old during the summer of 2005 into the back seat of her car and molesting him. He later told his parents, who notified police. She also was ordered to register as a sex offender.
 Tabitha Adams |
Tabitha Adams, 35: Second-grade teacher at Sacred Heart Cathedral School in Dodge City, Kansas, was arrested on Dec. 18, 2007, on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Her bond was set at $500,000. Neither the police department nor the church would release the victim’s age or gender.
 Tamara Ryman |
Tamara Ryman, 37: Married algebra teacher at Bellaire High School in Houston under investigation for possibly having an inappropriate relationship with a former student for whom she is the legal guardian. Police say on March 18, 2007, they found Ryman in a parked van with the 16-year-old, and the boy had his pants down. Both Ryman and the teen were charged with criminal trespassing.
 Tawni Wimberley |
Tawni Wimberley, 30: Former computer and technology teacher at Flagstaff High School teacher in Arizona pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual conduct with a minor on Sept. 30, 2008. Police alleged that Wimberley, who was indicted in March, had consensual sexual relationships with “several” male students, most of them legal adults.
 Teresa Engelbach |
Teresa Engelbach, 21: Substitute teacher from Pevely, Mo., was charged March 16, 2007, with having sex with a 14-year-old male student, whom she reportedly knew for years as a friend of her brother. Jefferson County authorities charged her with three counts of statutory rape and one count of statutory sodomy for incidents allegedly occurring between Feb. 1 and March 13, 2007.
Tina Mason, 31: The former teacher at Lubec Consolidated School, Washington County, Maine, received on Nov. 20, 2008, two consecutive suspended sentences of 11 months in jail, each with one year of probation, and a $400 fine for assault, sexual abuse of a minor, and unlawful sexual touching of a 13-year-old boy. The matter came to light in December 2007. The boy was not one of her students but, instead, the son of family friends. Mason will have to permanently give up her teaching certification and will be a registered sex offender for 10 years.
Toni Allexy, 38: Cheerleading coach in Paradise, Calif., entered a surprise no contest plea in court May 6, 2008, to a felony child endangerment charge. Allexy was accused in 2007 of furnishing alcohol to two 14-year-old boys at her residence, and fondling one of them during the ride home. “Very intoxicated, the mother gave my very drunk son and another boy and girl a ride home,” a letter from one of the boy’s mothers states. “On the ride home the mother (Allexy) put her hand down my son’s pants and began to fondle him, the other kids were in the back seat, which (Allexy) would not allow to come up front with my son.”
 Toni Woods |
Toni Lynn Woods, 37: Middle-school teacher in Braxton County, W.Va., confessed in 2005 to having sexual intercourse with three juveniles a total of four times and oral sex with one of those juveniles and another juvenile a total of four times. She reportedly described herself as a “monster” when she pleaded guilty. She resigned, surrendered her teaching certificate, and was given consecutive sentences of one-to-five years on four counts of third-degree sexual assault.
 Traci Tapp |
Traci Tapp, 28: Gym teacher at Hammonton High School in New Jersey accused of sexual contact with three male students, including having sex in her home multiple times in one night with a 16-year-old. In January 2006, she avoided any jail or probation time by admitting inappropriate touching, but she lost her teaching license.
 Valynne Bowers |
Valynne Bowers, 39: Math teacher at Bountiful Junior High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, was arrested on March 6, 2009 for sexual assault on a 13-year-old boy after another teacher at the school, Linda Nef, gave Bowers name to the police while confessing her own sexual involvement with the same teen. Until shortly before the arrests, the two teachers did not know about each other’s relationship with the same boy, a police spokesman said.
 Wendie Schweikert |
Wendie Schweikert, 36: Laurens, S.C., elementary teacher arrested in February 2006 for having sexual intercourse with an 11-year-old male student at E.B. Morse Elementary School. Police said the married woman had relations with the boy on three separate occasions dating back to 2005, not only on campus but also in her car near a miniature golf course near Greenville, S.C.
 Yvette Starzyk |
Yvette Starzyk, 26: Female athletic trainer and substitute teacher at Hinkley High School in Aurora, Colo., was fired and charged with sexual assault on a former student, a boy of 15. She turned herself in March 28, 2008. She reportedly had an ongoing sexual affair with the boy, with the encounters taking place at several locations away from the school. Authorities were also investigating the possibility more victims were involved with Starzyk.
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Sex in DA’s office is legal – claims DA!
FROM WND
District attorney admits adultery, but says nothing criminal about conduct
 William Higgins |
A district attorney in Pennsylvania who admits having adulterous sex in his office claims no crime was committed, and says the private complaint filed by the woman involved is politically motivated.
William Higgins, who is 34 and married, says he’s cooperating with state officials and will not resign his position as top prosecutor in Bedford County.
”The allegations are untrue and, sadly, they appear to be politically motivated,” Higgins told the Altoona Mirror. ”It’s unfortunate that this is the path that this woman has chosen to take. It took a lot of political pressure to make this happen.”
Higgins, a Republican, noted it has been six weeks since the July 10 encounter at his courthouse office.
”I’m not going to let this detract from my job as district attorney,” he said. ”I’m committed to doing the job that I was elected to do despite the political situation that’s going on right now. I have a lot of faith in the system, and I have a lot of faith that the truth will come out.”
The sexual liaison with the woman, who has not been identified, followed a committee meeting of Bedford County Republicans, for which Higgins was vice chairman at the time.
He says he met the woman at the fundraiser, and she later drove to his office to meet him, stressing the sex was consensual.
“I think the facts will bear that out,” Higgins told the Associated Press.
“She drove to my office 15 minutes after I arrived, on her own, and she drove away on her own,” Higgins said. “She had called me and asked if she could come by.”
Pennsylvania’s attorney general’s office said the woman alleges sexual misconduct by Higgins, but it’s not releasing a copy of her complaint, noting it’s not public record unless it leads to any criminal charge.
”We’ve accepted the case,” attorney general spokesman Kevin Harley told the Mirror. ”We will assign a prosecutor to the case. We will investigate as well and represent the commonwealth.”
Selling sex and corruption to your kids
FROM WND
“A Scout is trustworthy … loyal … helpful … friendly … courteous … kind …”
I’m watching my 12-year-old son Joshua and two dozen other Boy Scouts together recite the Scout Law at their weekly troop meeting. It’s a refreshingly hopeful and manly vignette in an era of wall-to-wall teen confusion.
As I stand in rapt attention – my eyes exploring the boys’ uniforms, searching out all the badges, patches, insignias and other colorful signs of their allegiance to Scouting’s high ideals – my mind wanders back a few years to a time when my son wanted to wear a different “uniform.”
Our family had traveled to Cape May, New Jersey, to vacation on a warm Atlantic beach with close relatives we hadn’t seen in a long time. Joshua hit it off great with his cousin Mark, several years his senior. A fun-loving and thoroughly decent kid, Mark didn’t have a mean bone in his body. One little thing, though. Mark wore a choker around his neck. Of course, Joshua had always regarded necklaces, bracelets, earrings and the like as strictly girls’ stuff, and wouldn’t dream of donning such gear himself and “looking like a girl” (or a “weirdo”).
You guessed it. By the end of one week, Joshua told me he really wanted to get a choker, like his cousin’s. He just … felt like wearing one, that’s all. No big deal, Dad.
I took him for a walk out on the jetty where we could be alone. Before long, I discovered that not only had my son developed this powerful desire to wear a piece of punk jewelry around his neck – something he had formerly despised – but he was also noticeably hostile toward me for some strange reason, even though he admitted I had done nothing to offend him. As we talked, it dawned on me what was going on. Obviously he wanted to be like his older cousin, whom he looked up to and had bonded with – hence the desire to wear a dumb-looking neck choker. But me? I now stood there providing an uncomfortable contrast, seeing as I represented his state of mind before he was captivated by this alien desire. I was a threat to his new allegiance, so he was rejecting me along with his own previous viewpoint.
As it turned out, I didn’t need to say too much: “Joshua, why are you mad at me? Is it because I don’t think that deep down you really want to wear a necklace? Tell me something. What would you have thought if, two weeks ago, before we came to Cape May, I had asked you if you would like to wear a clunky wooden necklace. Would you have wanted to?’”
“No way,” he replied without hesitation. The trance was broken. Realization set in. He cried briefly, gave me a hug, and assured me manfully he did not want to look like a girl and wear a necklace. When we went into the little gift shop on that beach, he even pointed out the choker he had wanted, displayed there in the showcase, and let me know once again that he wasn’t interested. So that was the end of it. But it sure as heck illustrated to me just how sensitive children are to peer pressure.
‘Gangsta generation’
If Joshua felt the invisible pull to conform to his cousin’s fashion preferences, what was influencing his cousin? Indeed, what is exerting this irresistible pressure to conform (by “rebelling”) on most of today’s youth?
Just as the military and private schools and Boy Scouts have uniforms, so does the youth culture: baggy pants, backward hats, chokers and other jewelry, body piercings, tattoos and the like. But if uniforms symbolize values and allegiance, a loyalty to a higher (or lower) order, then in this case it’s an allegiance to an increasingly defiant musical, social, sexual and cultural world, a mysterious (to parents) realm that seems magically to be drawing millions of children into it.
For three years, journalist Patricia Hersch journeyed into this exotic subculture. She observed, listened to, questioned, bonded with, and won the trust of eight teens in the typical American town of Reston, Va., ultimately producing her acclaimed portrait, “A Tribe Apart: A journey into the heart of American adolescence.” The landscape she describes, as ubiquitous across America’s fruited plain as McDonalds, is troubling indeed:
In the latest exasperating challenge to adult society, black rage is in as a cultural style for white middle-class kids. As in the sixties, when the sons and daughters of the middle class tossed out their tweed jackets and ladylike sheath dresses for the generational uniform of Levi’s and work shirts and peacoats in their celebration of blue collar workers, “the Real Americans,” so today’s adolescents have co-opted inner-city black street-style as the authentic way to be. To act black, as the kids define it, is to be strong, confrontational, a little scary.
… “We are living in the gangsta generation,” one white high school senior wearing his Malcolm X baseball cap turned backwards explains. “It is all about getting it. I look at what these cool dudes do and how it affects other people. These people are doing more than any faggoty white kid who plays basketball and gets accepted at Duke and has been rich his whole life and maybe gets drunk on the weekend. These kids put their ass on the line every day.”
Hersch describes how hip-hop – a multimillion-dollar music industry filled with “the powerful political and sexual images of rap” – has captivated a generation with the drama of the ghetto and its daily struggle for survival:
So, is that it? Is today’s bizarre youth subculture just the latest “costume” for adolescent rebellion, like the long hair of the 1960s and other, if less conspicuous, rebellious phases of previous generations of youngsters? Is adult concern over today’s youth culture just the perennial hand-wringing of parents needlessly worried about their growing offspring’s experiments with independence? Or is something else, something far more sinister at work?
‘Merchants of Cool’
“They want to be cool. They are impressionable, and they have the cash. They are corporate America’s $150 billion dream.”
That’s the opening statement in PBS’s stunning 2001 Frontline documentary, “Merchants of Cool,” narrated by Douglas Rushkoff. What emerges in the following 60 minutes is a scandalous portrait of how major corporations – Viacom, Disney, AOL/Time Warner and others – study America’s children like laboratory rats, in order to sell them billions of dollars in merchandise by tempting, degrading and corrupting them.
Think that’s a bit of an overstatement?
It’s an understatement.
“When you’ve got a few gigantic transnational corporations, each one loaded down with debt, competing madly for as much shelf space and brain space as they can take,” says NYU Communications Professor Mark Crispin-Miller, “they’re going to do whatever they think works the fastest and with the most people, which means that they will drag standards down.”
Let’s see how far down.
“It’s a blizzard of brands, all competing for the same kids,” explains Rushkoff in “Merchants of Cool.” “To win teens’ loyalty, marketers believe, they have to speak their language the best. So they study them carefully, as an anthropologist would an exotic native culture.”
“Today,” he discloses, “five enormous companies are responsible for selling nearly all of youth culture. These are the true merchants of cool: Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Universal Vivendi, and AOL/Time Warner.”
The documentary shows how big corporations literally send “spies” to infiltrate young people’s social settings to gather intelligence on what they can induce these children to buy next.
“The entertainment companies, which are a handful of massive conglomerates that own four of the five music companies that sell 90 percent of the music in the United States – those same companies also own all the film studios, all the major TV networks, all the TV stations pretty much in the 10 largest markets,” University of Illinois Communications Professor Robert McChesney reveals in the documentary. “They own all or part of every single commercial cable channel.
“They look at the teen market as part of this massive empire that they’re colonizing. You should look at it like the British Empire or the French Empire in the 19th century. Teens are like Africa. You know, that’s this range that they’re going to take over, and their weaponry are films, music, books, CDs, Internet access, clothing, amusement parks, sports teams. That’s all this weaponry they have to make money off of this market.”
MTV
What about the cable channel that positions itself as champion of today’s teens and pre-teens – champions of their music, their rebellious free spirit, and their genuine, if ever-changing, notions of what is “cool”? Whatever else MTV might be, at least it’s interested in kids, right? Sure, just like the lion is interested in the gazelle.
“Everything on MTV is a commercial,” explains McChesney. “That’s all that MTV is. Sometimes it’s an explicit advertisement paid for by a company to sell a product. Sometimes it’s going to be a video for a music company there to sell music. Sometimes it’s going to be the set that’s filled with trendy clothes and stuff there to sell a look that will include products on that set. Sometimes it will be a show about an upcoming movie paid for by the studio, though you don’t know it, to hype a movie that’s coming out from Hollywood. But everything’s an infomercial. There is no non-commercial part of MTV.”
Rushkoff illustrates how the machine works by using the example of Sprite. What was once a struggling, second-string soft-drink company pulled off a brilliant marketing coup by underwriting major hip-hop music events and positioning itself as the cool soft drink for the vast MTV-generation market. Connecting the dots between Sprite, MTV, rap musicians and other cross-promotion participants, Rushkoff lays out the behind-the-scenes game plan: “Sprite rents out the Roseland Ballroom and pays kids 50 bucks a pop to fill it up and look cool. The rap artists who perform for this paid audience get a plug on MTV’s show, ‘Direct Effects,’ for which Sprite is a sponsor. MTV gobbles up the cheap programming, promoting the music of the record companies who advertise on their channel. Everybody’s happy.”
So what, you say? What’s wrong with that? Aren’t MTV and rappers and clothing companies and others just giving kids what they want?
That’s what they say. But it’s not what they do.
In reality, the companies are creating new and lower and more shocking – that’s your key-word, shocking – marketing campaigns, disguised as genuine, authentic expressions of youthful searching for identity and belonging, for the sole purpose of profiting financially from America’s children.
They hold focus groups, and they send out “culture spies” (which they call “correspondents”) to pretend to befriend and care about teens, so they can study them – what they like, don’t like, what’s in, what’s out, what’s cool and what’s no longer cool. They engage in “buzz marketing” (where undercover agents disguised as “one of the crowd” talk up a new product). They hire shills to interact with young people in Internet chat rooms, and “street snitches” (a roving group loudly talking up a band or other product in public to raise interest). They bring the entire machinery of modern market research and consumer psychology to bear on studying this gold mine of a market – to anticipate the next, and always weirder and more shocking, incarnation of “cool.”
This would be bad enough – if corporate America were just following and marketing the basest instincts of confused, unsupervised teenagers. But they are not following, they are leading – downward.
Exhibits A and B: the “mook” and the “midriff,” two creations of this corporate youth-marketing consortium.
The “mook” is a marketing caricature of the wild, uninhibited, outrageous and amoral male sex-maniac.
“Take Howard Stern,” says Rushkoff, “perhaps the original and still king of all mooks. Look how Viacom leverages him across their properties. He is syndicated on 50 of Viacom’s Infinity radio stations. His weekly TV show is broadcast on Viacom’s CBS. His number one best-selling autobiography was published by Viacom’s Simon and Shuster, then released as a major motion picture by Viacom’s Paramount Pictures, grossing $40 million domestically and millions more on videos sold at Viacom’s Blockbuster video.”
He adds: “There is no mook in nature. He is a creation designed to capitalize on the testosterone-driven madness of adolescence. He grabs them below the belt and then reaches for their wallets.”
A great deal of MTV’s programming features and markets to the “mook” in America’s boys. For instance, a major venue of the mook is professional wrestling – the most-watched type of television among adolescent boys in America today.
OK, what about the “midriff”?
Girls, says Rushkoff, “get dragged down there right along with boys. The media machine has spit out a second caricature. … The midriff is no more true to life than the mook. If he is arrested in adolescence, she is prematurely adult. If he doesn’t care what people think of him, she is consumed by appearances. If his thing is crudeness, hers is sex. The midriff is really just a collection of the same old sexual cliches, but repackaged as a new kind of female empowerment. ‘I am midriff, hear me roar. I am a sexual object, but I’m proud of it.’”
And what is the purpose of these debauched role models for America’s future, fashioned out of market research compiled by “culture spies” hired by corporations to predict what the likely next step down – the next shock wave disguised as authentic “cool” – will be for the MTV generation?
Why, to sell kids more stuff, of course.
“When corporate revenues depend on being ahead of the curve, you have to listen, you have to know exactly what they want and exactly what they’re thinking so that you can give them what you want them to have,” explains NYU’s Crispin-Miller. However, he adds, “the MTV machine doesn’t listen to the young so it can make the young happier. … The MTV machine tunes in so it can figure out how to pitch what Viacom has to sell.”
And how do they manage to bond kids – imprint them – with the next round of musical, clothing, and lifestyle choices they should be buying into?
“Kids are invited to participate in sexual contests on stage or are followed by MTV cameras through their week of debauchery,” says Rushkoff. “Sure, some kids have always acted wild, but never have these antics been so celebrated on TV. So of course kids take it as a cue, like here on the strip in Panama Beach, Florida, where high schoolers carry on in public as if they were on some MTV sound stage. Who is mirroring whom? Real life and TV life have begun to blur. Is the media really reflecting the world of kids, or is it the other way around? The answer is increasingly hard to make out.”
Then the really devilish part of the marketers’ modus operandi comes into view, as host Rushkoff relives his own epiphany:
And that’s when it hit me: It’s a giant feedback loop. The media watches kids and then sells them an image of themselves. Then kids watch those images and aspire to be that mook or midriff in the TV set. And the media is there watching them do that in order to craft new images for them, and so on.
“Is there any way to escape the feedback loop?” Rushkoff asks. Only in the kids’ minds, he reveals, noting that “cool”-seeking youths continually reach downward to a new, raunchier, more outrageous expression – something, anything, as long as it hasn’t been exploited and ripped off by the corporate world.
That said, Rushkoff rolls tape of a large, demonic-looking group of teens, faces painted, chanting and screaming obscenities in downtown Detroit on Halloween night, and explains:
A member of Insane Clown Posse explains the group’s attraction: “Everybody that likes our music feels a super connection. That’s why all those juggaloes here, they feel so connected to it because it’s – it’s exclusively theirs. See, when something’s on the radio, it’s for everybody, you know what I mean? It’s everybody’s song. ‘Oh, this is my song.’ That ain’t your song. It’s on the radio. It’s everybody’s song. But to listen to ICP, you feel like you’re the only one that knows about it.”
“These are the extremes,” intones Rushkoff, “to which teens are willing to go to ensure the authenticity of their own scene. It’s the front line of teen cultural resistance: Become so crude, so intolerable, and break so many rules that you become indigestible.” (To complete the mood, in the background Insane Clown Posse is rapping “Bitch, you’s a ho. And ho, you’s a bitch. Come on!” and other uplifting lyrics.)
Then comes the betrayal: “Merchants of Cool” shows how Insane Clown Posse and other “authentic” groups – untouched by commercialism – are ultimately bought off by the marketing “machine,” packaged and sold back to the youth market. Of course, when the shock value wears off, and the mantle of “cool” – untouched and uncorrupted by corporate America – moves downward to the next, even more outrageous level of depravity – MTV, Viacom, and the other corporate giants will be there to package it and sell it, once again, to our children.
Oh, but don’t bother trying to tell your kids about this fiendish game. You see, says Crispin-Miller, “it’s part of the official rock video world view, it’s part of the official advertising world view, that your parents are creeps, teachers are nerds and idiots, authority figures are laughable, nobody can really understand kids except the corporate sponsor.”
OK, so is that it? America’s teens are in the grip of a malignant marketing campaign by big, greedy, uncaring corporations? – and hopefully the kids will grow out of it and become normal sometime? End of story?
Not quite. To be sure, millions of youths are in the grip of something destructive, but the corporate aspect is just the visible part. Behind both the corporate manipulators and the youths caught in their selfish and shameful influence lurks another, much more formidable and all-pervasive “marketing campaign” – a malevolent dimension that has no one’s best interests at heart, and which is programmed to devour all in its path, from the highest to the lowest.
That “something,” which we shall unmask in Part 2, is literally intent on degrading this generation so totally that little hope would be left for the next generations of Americans.
Read Part 2, Conclusion: “Why today’s youth culture has gone insane.”
eBay pulls rape video game
Mar 6
Posted by Chris Thomas
FROM WND
‘This listing has been removed or is no longer available’
By Chelsea Schilling
A dozen eBay auctions for a Japanese computer game where players must rape women and force them to have abortions abruptly were pulled from the massive site after WND reported on their availability.
WND’s report yesterday noted the violent video games had been listed on Amazon.com but suddenly disappeared from that site.
The eBay auctions, however, had remained, and there was no immediate response from the company to WND’s request for a comment.
Then today the auctions disappeared, being replaced with pages stating: “This listing has been removed or is no longer available. If the listing was removed by eBay, consider it canceled. Note: Listings that have ended more than 90 days ago will no longer appear on eBay.”
And at the same time, eBay’s response arrived at a WND e-mail inbox.
“We will carefully review the information that you have provided, and take appropriate action based on the results of our investigation,” the response from the company’s customer service division read.
“To protect the privacy of all members, however, we’re unable to share information about another member’s account or the actions we’ve taken. I hope that this assures you that your personal information will also remain private,” eBay said.
eBay notice about cancelled auctions
On the first level of the “rape simulator game,” gamers stalk a young mother at a subway station and violently assault her, according to the London’s Independent reports. After finishing with the woman, they rape her two virgin daughters.
According to descriptions, gamers may invite other male characters to join a gang-rape scenario. Pregnancy and abortion are “key features,” and characters are punished if they decide to keep a baby.
“If she does become pregnant you’re supposed to force her to get an abortion, otherwise she gets more and more visibly pregnant each time you have sex,” one reviewer revealed. “If you allow the child to be born then the woman will throw you in front of a train.”
The person continued, “Take that pro-life movement!”
Another gamer reported “tears glistening in the young girl’s eyes” as characters rape her in one graphic scene.
Illusion, a Japanese company, released the 3-D Hentai game on April, 26, 2006. The company is based in Yokohama and also sells a game series called Battle Raper and Battle Raper 2. While the series features sexual assault, there are no abortions involved.
“Unfortunately, under the company’s regulation, our softwares are only available for domestic customers over 18 and not for sale in foreign countries,” the company website states.
A random check by WND of the auction numbers that just one day earlier had revealed the violent game all revealed the same statement today, that the item no longer was available.
Ebay’s offensive material policy states, “Sellers may not list items that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial or religious intolerance, or items that promote organizations with such views. … Under this policy, eBay may in its discretion, remove items when the item or description graphically portrays violence or victims of violence, and lacks substantial social, artistic or political value.”
Amazon’s product description read:
One Amazon customer review stated, “I am saddened and appalled by the mere idea of this game. Is this for real?”
The blood-spattered cover of RapeLay features an illustration of a schoolgirl named Aoi who is attempting to shield her crying little sister from a male character’s threatening hands. The male is named Kimura Masaya and escapes from prison to violate the women.
Gamers summon wind to blow women’s skirts up and fondle them until they are sexually aroused, as indicated by a meter. Players force anal and oral sex upon their victims while the women respond, “Sniff … sniff … I w-w-want to die. …”
Male characters take pictures of their victims after they have been assaulted and abort their unborn babies. The game also includes depictions of lesbian and group sex.
UK Parliament member Keith Vaz recently spoke out against Amazon’s sale of RapeLay.
“It is intolerable that anyone would purchase a game that simulates the criminal offense of rape,” Vaz told the Belfast Telegraph. “To know that this widely available through a major online retailer is utterly shocking, I do not see how this can be allowed. I will be raising this matter in Parliament and hope that action is taken to prevent the game from being sold.”
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