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Megan Gaither, 31, an English teacher and varsity cheerleading coach at St. Clair High School, told the Post-Dispatch that she was put on leave Friday after her X-rated moonlighting job was revealed. “Teaching does not financially support a person. It’s really hard to stretch those paychecks during the summer. That’s why I did it,” she told the news outlet.

A female teacher allegedly sent nudes to a 16-year-old student and then invited him over for sex while her husband was out of town. Rikki Lynn Laughlin, 24, sent the explicit photos to the boy at St. James High School in Missouri - where Laughlin worked as a special education teacher, according to Maries County Sheriff Department. The married mother-of-one faces six felony charges for allegedly pursuing the 16-year-old, sending him pornographic images and soliciting photos from him.

Senior high school students are taking a class in a school in Shanghai, China. Reuters China is considering following Western countries in banning teachers from dating young students, according to a circular released to solicit public opinions. The draft of School Protection Order for Juveniles was issued by the Ministry of Education on Tuesday (April 6) and, if passed into law, requires primary and middle schools to prohibit teachers from dating students or having sex with them. The current age of consent in China is 14 years of age. Other predatory behaviours that “hurt students’ physical and mental health” listed...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A former high school Spanish teacher from Huntington was sentenced to federal prison for traveling across state lines to have sex with one of her students and selling Adderall, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Amy Adkins, 30, was sentenced to five years in prison for travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and distribution of Adderall. Adkins also was ordered to complete 20 years of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.“Adkins abused her position of authority as a teacher to betray the trust of this student and his family,” said United...

A former Arizona teacher who was convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old student is divorcing her husband from prison after he stood by her side during the trial. Brittany Zamora, 29, filed for divorce from her husband, Daniel Zamora, nearly one year after she was sentenced to 20 years behind bars. In 2019, Brittany pleaded guilty to sexual conduct with a minor, public sexual indecency and molestation of a child while teaching at Las Brisas Elementary School in Goodyear. Separate allegations accused the teacher of trying to groom another young boy by promising to send him naked photos of...

A Wisconsin teacher is accused of having sex with her 16-year-old foster son after her husband is said to have secretly recorded their alleged trysts. Stephanie Pudlowski, 38, was arrested on May 15 after police say audio and video taken in the home they shared in Oneida County showed she had a sexual relationship with the boy. She has since been charged with sexual assault of a child placed in substitute care, sexual intercourse with a child age 16 or older and causing mental harm to a child, NewsWatch12 reports. Pudlowski is said to have met the boy while teaching...

A former Montgomery Township teacher could serve up to nearly a year in jail Somerset County jail after pleading guilty to third-degree endangering the welfare of a child for sending nude photos to students. Michelina Aichele, 30, of Hillsdale, a former English teacher, was arrested and charged in October after police and high school administration discovered sexual photos and conversations over text, email and social media between February and April 2018. Aichele, who’d faced up to five years in jail, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Superior Court of Somerset County in Somerville. In addition to jail time, she was ordered to...

A former second-grade teacher In Jersey City admitted Wednesday she sexually assaulted a 15-year-old student in her Lyndhurst home more than three years ago. Lauren Coyle-Mitchell, 36, pleaded guilty in Bergen County Superior Court to aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, a court official said. Under a plea bargain, Coyle-Mitchell faces five years in state prison, parole supervision for life and will be required to register as a sex offender, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. She is also barred from public employment and must forfeit her teaching certificates, according to the report. Coyle-Mitchell worked at...

A Queens gym teacher guilty of having sexual relations with two 16-year-old male students was sentenced to 10 years' probation Friday.Joy Morsi, 40, a married mom of four, already completed a year of psychiatric counseling for the sex acts.The ex-teacher had dyed her dark hair blonde for her appearance Friday. She fled Queens Criminal Court with her attorney immediately after her sentencing. Both declined to comment. In January 2015, the Ridgewood teacher admitted to having sex with a 16-year-old Grover Cleveland High School student and exposing herself and performing a sex act on a second 16-year-old student, officials said. At...

A 28-year-old former math teacher at a Passaic middle school was sentenced to one year in jail for having an intimate relationship with a teenage student. Maria C. Saco of Passaic pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and was sentenced Thursday to the Passaic County Jail. Saco was teaching remedial math during summer school in 2003 to seventh- and eighth-graders when she met the boy, then 14. The boy went on to high school, but Saco's attorney, Joseph Afflitto Sr., said the boy contacted her through e-mail. The two started a relationship that fall. Saco had even...

A 32-year-old Lyndhurst woman, a second-grade teacher, has been arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a 15-year-old girl from the Jersey City school where the woman is employed, authorities said Friday.Bergen County John L. Molinelli said Lauren H. Mitchell was arrested after an investigation by his office’s Special Victims Unit and the Lyndhurst Police Department.Molinelli said several teachers at the Dr. Lena Edwards Academic Charter School in Jersey City observed what they believed was inappropriate behavior between Mitchell and the girl during a class trip and reported what they had seen to school...

A substitute teacher who was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Manchester Regional High School student Thursday, was only hired to teach on an as-needed basis for an absent science teacher during the 2014-15 school year, the principal said. Linda Hardan of Prospect Park, 21, was arrested Friday for allegedly taking the teenager to a location in Wayne outside of school hours and sexually assaulting him, according to a senior Passaic County assistant prosecutor.The high school serves students from Haledon, North Haledon and Prospect Park. Hardan was on a list of eligible substitute teachers kept by the Passaic County Educational...

A Queens (gym) teacher was charged today with raping a second student, an apparent rebound from an affair with another 16-year-old boy that ended when he took someone else to the school prom. Joy Morsi, 38, was back in court for a second day in a row after prosecutors hit her with more rape and child endangerment charges for alleged abuses that happened right under her husband’s nose. A day earlier, prosecutors said the Grover Cleveland High School teacher had been carrying on a months-long affair with a student, and flipped when she learned he was taking someone else to...

School administrator who resigned after a first alleged victim accused her in a widely watched YouTube video. Andrea Cardosa is seen in a yearbook photo. At a news conference with her attorney, the 18-year-old woman, identified only as Brianna, said she was abused as a 14-year-old student in Val Verde Unified School District by Andrea Cardosa, the former Alhambra High administrator. A claim against the school district — the first step toward a civil lawsuit — was filed Wednesday by Brianna’s attorney. Speaking at the news conference with reporters, Brianna said the district should have protected students. The alleged abuse...

Kaitlyn Hunt will stay in jail until mid-December.A Florida teen accused of having sex with her underage girlfriend accepted a plea deal Thursday that her attorney says is in her best interest. Kaitlyn Hunt, 19, pleaded no contest to battery, interference with child custody and contributing to the dependency of a child. Hunt was charged in February with having sex with a 14-year-old female schoolmate. Hunt was 18 at the time. A previous plea deal was withdrawn in August following allegations that Hunt exchanged thousands of texts with the girl and sent her nude photos. A judge revoked her bond,...

A missing 15-year-old is believed to have run away to France with one of her teachers, police have told Sky News. Megan Stammers failed to turn up at Bishop Bell Church Of England School in Eastbourne on Friday and hours later she crossed from Dover to Calais. Sussex Police have urged either Megan or 30-year-old Jeremy Forrest, who she is believed to be travelling with, to contact them. Chief Inspector Jason Tingley said they were at a "critical stage of the investigation". "We are investigating several lines of enquiry and are grateful for the support and co-operation from Megan's family...

A Bible school teacher is facing up to five years in jail after being accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Heather Daughdrill, 28, of Westlake, Louisiana, is alleged to have begun the affair with the teen after meeting him at a summer Bible school camp. She is alleged to have checked the boy out of school without parental permission and taken him to her home where they had sex. Investigators discovered several sexually explicit text messages that had been sent by Daughdrill to the boy. The alleged relationship went on from June until October of this year. Daughdrill,...

MIAMI— A teacher accused with having sex with a 16-year-old student bonded out of jail Thursday following her arrest a day earlier. Waleska Velasquez, 29, a science teacher at Miami Jackson Senior High, is charged with three counts of having sex with a minor. Police say Velasquez has confessed to having sexual relations with the student starting in August of 2009 and continuing through 2010. The teen is now 17. Velasquez admitted to police to showering the boy with gifts, cash and a cell phone she used to send him romantic letters along with photos of herself nude and in...

Two women have become the latest teachers to be charged with having sex with high school students. In Alabama, a teacher charged with sexually abusing three students pled guilty to two counts and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Amy Caudle will serve three years, with credit for time already served and will have 12 years of supervised probation. District judge Trippy McGuire also ruled that she resign from her job at Andalusia Middle School, surrender her teaching certificate and sign on to the sex offenders register. Chief assistant district attorney Grace Jeter had told the court that between...

By Ed Richter, Staff Writer Updated 8:30 PM Friday, February 4, 2011 MASON — A female Mason high school gym teacher is accused of having sexual misconduct with five students, most of them football players at the school. A Warren County grand jury on Friday indicted Stacy Schuler of Springboro on 16 counts of sexual battery, a third-degree felony; and three misdemeanor counts of offenses involving underage persons. Schuler, who will turn 33 next week, allegedly had sexual contact with the students on five different occasions between August and December, according to officials with the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. She...