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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
A Texas first grade teacher at a private school in Humble is being accused of inappropriately touching one of her students, but claims the charge is false because she doesn’t like black people. The 7-year-old accuser is believed to be African American. The teacher, Irene Esther Stokes, 61, was charged with child indecency on April ... read more »
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012
43-year-old Laura Lee Kelly allegedly left her 6-year-old daughter in the care of strangers she had never met before so that she could have sex. The shocking incident occurred in Mesa, Arizona, on Tuesday. Kelly left her child at Evergreen Park off Country Club Drive near University Drive with two transient strangers for more than four ... read more »
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Monday, June 11th, 2012
State and city teachers unions are pushing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to allow parents to see the evaluations of teachers, it was reported on 11 June. The evaluations would be available by appointment made with the school principle and delivered verbally. The parents would also be barred from taking notes on the evaluations or ... read more »
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
A teacher at a Kinder-Care daycare facility in Silverdale, Washington, attempted to remove a Chuck E. Cheese Tattoo from 5-year-old Silas Gholston’s face for a class portrait. However, according to daycare officials and the boy’s mother, Heidi Dietrich, the teacher “improperly used a cleaning product” on the boy’s right cheek, which caused a large burn. ... read more »
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
Homeland Security agents, working along side the NYPD, arrested Joshua Conde on Thursday on charges that he possessed and distributed child pornography. Conde, 26, worked in a Bronx daycare center as a teacher known as Bronx House for approximately one year, where he worked with children ages 5 through 12, Eyewitness News reports. According to officials, Conde passed a background ... read more »
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
A North Brunswick, NJ, special education teacher’s aide employed by North Brunswick Township High School has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl on seperate occasions. According to a report by NJToday, Derrick Weeks, 34, of North Brunswick was arrested and charged on May 11 with endangering the welfare of a ... read more »
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
A Cherry Hill, New Jersey father suspected something wasn’t quite right at his autistic son’s school. What he uncovered has started an Internet campaign to stop abusive teachers from bullying students. On Friday, Stuart Chaifetz posted a video on YouTube in which he said that he was shocked when he was told by school officials his ... read more »
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Former daycare teacher Harold Meyers, 44, of 104 Waldorf Ave., Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been charged with two counts each of third-degree sexual assault and two counts of risk of injury arising from allegations he molested two girls at a daycare center where he worked about two years ago. He was held overnight on $150,000 ... read more »
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has placed a former teacher at a prominent private elementary school in Washington, D.C. on its list of the 10 most wanted fugitives over allegations that he possessed and produced child pornography. The investigation into Eric Justin Toth started four years ago when somebody found pornographic images on Toth’s camera ... read more »
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
The mother of a 9 year-old special education student in Harrisburg, PA, was upset when to learn that her son had his fingertip sliced off when a teacher slammed the door on his hand. While the teacher and school district are calling the incident an unfortunate accident, the boy’s mother, Tanaya Scott, isn’t convinced. Scott ... read more »
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Friday, September 23rd, 2011
If you stop to think about it, it kind of makes sense that teachers would wear out their voices. After all, talking is a major part of their job. Talking is probably being kind–anyone who’s ever had to communicate with a room full of children knows that talking is not an adequate description. Now there ... read more »
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Jeff V. Willis, a teacher with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, has been charged with beating a teen with a baseball bat near his home. According to a police report Willis, 40, of Akron, was arrested Monday evening after allegedly hitting a 17-year-old boy repeatedly in the leg with a baseball bat. Willis was charged with assault and also criminal damaging (for ... read more »
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
What’s with all the horny female teachers lately? A former teacher in South Carolina has been sentenced to six years in prison for having sex with her students. A forensic psychiatrist says the woman is not a pedophile, but “rather a childlike victim suffering from personality disorders and a repressed childhood.” Could you imagine trying ... read more »
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Hmmm, think there will be a bit less sympathy for this guy than there was for Debra LaFave and Mary Kay Letourneau? They are viewed as adults with extremely poor judgment, but this guy will be called a child molester. Not that we’re defending his actions, not by any means, just that there seems to ... read more »
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
An 8 year old student and her mother are at odds with her grade school where the student is being made to do her classwork in the hallway because her teacher is allergic to the families choice of fabric softener. Asked if the family could switch, the mother claims that the softener she uses is ... read more »
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